Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Fast-charging stations coming to NH interstates
The state’s three biggest electric utilities are proposing to create a dozen fast-charging stations for electric vehicles along interstates in New Hampshire, using money from the Volkswagen emissions-rigging settlement to create the state’s first such network open to...
Paper is good (ballot-booth edition)
New Hampshire requires voters to fill in little circles on the ballot when voting for public office, sort of like answering questions on the SAT. (Assuming they still do that - it's been a loooooong while since I took the SAT.) Then you run the paper ballot through a...
Wikipedia popularity map for NH, but who is Triple-H?
In an entertaining but essentially meaningless bit of data mapping, a couple of folks at The Pudding, an online publication that looks at culture via visual data, assembled a map showing the "most Wikipedia-ed" person throughout the U.S. (here's the map) In New...
We’re not alone in fretting about a ‘birth dearth’
New Hampshire has lot fretted about a shortage of births producing a "silver tsunami" of old folks that will cripple the economy, shutter our colleges and produce an over-supply of Denny's restaurants. Most of us know that is true throughout New England and other...
Finally, a historical marker that talks about something important
It took 10 months to get it done, but the Granite State is now officially a Geeky State: The latest New Hampshire Historical Highway Marker, celebrating the creation of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth in 1964, has officially been installed. Everybody who has...
Forget political history; we want to know about the electric panel
People think of the New Hampshire State House as a bastion of democracy and a glorious symbol of our granite-willed independence, but here’s another way to think of it: A really old office building with some really weird wiring. The building celebrated its 200th...
Acoustics is topic of new UNH center
From UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire has launched a new center focused on the science of sound. The Center for Acoustics Research and Education (CARE) will bring together expertise across wide-ranging disciplines and provide acoustics research,...
A quiet week in Lake Geekbedone, my home site
I'm out of town most of this week, so I won't be putting much on the blog and newsletter - so you can squander more of your time with other online frivolity! But just in case you're bored, here's a tweaked version of a column I wrote last October, altered to fit...
Startup that wants ‘the little guy’ to hire political lobbyists gets Shindig award
EchoRidge, a Concord startup that wants to make it easier for people to hire political lobbyists, came in second at the annual Startup Shindig held by the N.H. Tech Alliance last night in Manchester, and pocketed $100,000. (Union-Leader story here.) First place and...
A little good news, and some big bad news, on Atlantic salmon
New Hampshire has thrown in the towel in its efforts to restore the Atlantic salmon to our rivers - dams, pollution, baby-salmon-eating striped bass and changes in ocean temperature and acidity have proved too much to overcome. But efforts are still going on in Maine...
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