Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Report: Rising sea will flood $645 million worth of N.H. property
There’s seaside property, and then there’s property where the sea comes inside. The former is great – the latter, not so much.
UNH finds that drones can analyze forests, but don’t fly too low
It is impractical to process imagery captured by flying lower than 100 meters above the ground.
Ranked choice voting survives in Maine and is already complicating things
It’s 36 hours after the polls closed and we still don’t know who won Maine’s Democratic primary for governor.
Readers are worried about my ‘tick tubes’
One reader decried my dependence on a “Maginot Line of toxic lint,” a phrase that I’d give my eye teeth to have written.
Where would we be 105 million years ago?
We'd be right about there, according to a website called Ancient Earth globe. Look at plate-tectonic-shifted Africa and Europe. Plus: No icecaps, so the oceans were a lot higher. I learned about it in this article from Kottke.org.
The number of Atlantic salmon returning to N.E./Canada rivers fell 15% last year
When you breed in fresh water, live in salt water, and have to travel between them in order to reproduce, there are three times as many environmental problems that can hurt you.
That Liberty Utilities project to help customers buy home batteries gets more complicated
The complication isn’t technical (which would be fun to talk about), it’s regulatory and business-related.
Lyme vaccine for humans is getting closer, just needs $350 million to help it along
If there's any medical advance that the New Hampshire public would love to see right now, it's a Lyme vaccine, as bacteria-carrying ticks sweep over the landscape - and not just in New England or just the U.S.. I suspect even anti-vax folks would find an excuse to get...
Tell me: What geek-related historical marker does New Hampshire need?
This is your chance, readers!
It’s annoying that snow melts and then you have to wait for it to fall again
When I was a kid, I once saved a snowball in the freezer so I could throw it in warm weather – but ski areas have somewhat bigger plans.
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