Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Telemedicine needs regulation more than technology
Telemedicine has always seemed like an obvious use of the online world - Skyping for your health, so to speak. It's fun to think of the technical possibilities - a nurse or doctor "examining" you from far away via remote-control robotics, for example. But it's not...
3D printing is a dud! Well, maybe not.
When I set up some online accounts for Granite Geek a few years ago it required a horizontal photo, so I put together the Granite Geek logo with one of my columns from the Concord Monitor. I had to choose a column that ran at the top of the page so it would show me...
Cord-cutting & FCC changes alarm the most hyper-local of TV
Community access television - those hyper-local TV channels created as part of cable TV contracts - gets no respect but it is, in many ways, what the internet was before the online world became a soul-killing greedfest: Very focused on community, often amateurish but...
Ticks thrive where Acadia burned
A massive fire in 1947 burned much of Mount Desert Island, which is where Acadia National Park lies. A recent study finds that six decades later, those areas have a lot more black-legged ticks (a.k.a. deer ticks), which seems weird. Check the story about it in the...
Oh, boy, another tree-killing disease is coming
Have you noticed all the dead ash trees around, now that the emerald ash borer has gotten well established in the state. Wonderful, isn't it? Just the latest in a string of diseases, many consisting of fungus carried by boring beetles, that has hit eastern forests....
A big expensive bridge that’s also a little science-y
If you're going to spend $30 million or more to carry vehicles across a relatively short span of water, you might as well do other interesting things with the structure. That's the idea behind the Memorial Bridge that connects Portsmouth, N.H, with Kittery, Maine....
As Crawford Path turns 200, let’s reconsider whether our hiking is too hard
The Crawford Path in the White Mountains turns 200 this summer, making it the oldest known recreational mountain path in the country. It was established two centuries ago at the very start of the industry of people coming north from Boston and New York to relax in the...
Where do the commuters go?
Commuting is one of the biggest drawbacks to industrial society. Once people stopped working around their homes - mostly farming, but also small-scale businesses - they had to spend time going to and fro. The state occasionally analyzes where these commuters go at a...
“Smart farm” sounds buzzwordy but it could be important
The Union-Leader has a piece about $10 million from Stonyfield, the yogurt folks, to develop ways to improve agriculture so that it absorbs rather than emits carbon into the atmosphere. (You can read it here). The initiative will work to develop a new open-source...
The best ‘no trespassing’ sign ever – because it says ‘go ahead’
I came across this gem of a sign alongside a lovely little brook near Keene. Brilliant.
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