Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire

Maine girds for first statewide ranked-choice voting
At the June 12 primary, voters will have a chance to toss out the whole idea before the general election in November.
Measuring the ‘energy glow’ of plants from satellites can monitor carbon uptake
This study is the first to look at the relationship between ground-based and satellite-observed solar-induced fluorescence in different areas across the globe – from grasslands to mixed forests and areas with sparse vegetation.

Dryer lint vs. Lyme disease – let the battle begin!
Home-made tick tubes aren’t the answer, but if they kill just one of those nasty little eight-legged so-and-so’s, I’ll be happy.

NH group has been selling disease-resistant elms for three decades
Liberty Elms are one of several cultivars developed to resist Dutch Elm Disease – but not to completely be free of it.
UNH did the math and 10 nonillion electrons weigh as much as 2 doughnuts
UNH has been involved in space science for 64 years, so they put together a cool graphic about it, with bragging numbers like 36 current satellites have UNH instruments on board, and the fact that they manage the magnetometer on Voyager I, which is now 13 billion...
What tells forests to produce lots of nuts/berries one year but not another?
In forests, “mast” doesn’t mean those tall skinny things on ships – it means free food.
Like the feds, NH government boots Kaspersky Lab software
The company’s ties to Russia have raised a lot of suspicion.

Double-checking a Concord Monitor calculation from 154 years ago
The very first edition of this paper got pretty geeky about relative and absolute motion of locomotives.
To increase forest carbon capture, harvest trees less and less often – but still harvest
“When we shift to forestry practices that less frequently harvest smaller amounts of wood from each acre, this leads to 14 to 33 percent more carbon be stored over the next 100 years. This happens because trees would be allowed to grow older and larger and store more carbon than typically happens under current practices,”

A bridge too wild? Footbridge in Pemi Wilderness won’t be replaced
The fate of this footbridge in the midst of the state’s biggest wilderness area has pitted different outdoors advocates against each other.