Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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.
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.
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