Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
That alarmist warning about Seacoast housing seems a tad less alarmist now
“The storms we’re seeing now, people thought this was decades in the future”

We have more weeds in our future (sorry, organic farmers)
As the climate changes, the weeds that farmers and gardeners think they need to worry about may not be the weeds that are actually a problem.

Wonky policy changes will affect our power grid at least as much as big projects
CASPR isn’t a friendly ghost when you’re talking about energy markets.

Effort to revive ‘Amazing Stories’ magazine moves to Kickstarter
“Amazing” didn’t have the impact on sci-fi that “Astounding” did, but it was the first sci-fi magazine, which is why the Hugos are named after its founder, Hugo Gernsback.
Making your building more efficient is as easy as watching a video! (OK, not really)
Want to watch the last Science Cafe NH in Concord, about ways to improve, or not improve, efficiency of homes, offices and industrial buildings? Check out the video from Concord TV, the city's local-access cable channel. The discussion occasionally wanders a little...

Is there life for startups in NH north of Manchester?
Spoiler alert: Yes, but it’s a whole lot easier in the Manchester Millyard.

Less snow means trees take up less CO2 (boo!) but grass crops take up more (hooray!)
” For example, forests in New England are a much stronger sink for carbon than agricultural lands when we consider the whole annual cycle. But, as climate changes in our region, it is important to understand how the reliability of how these economic and environmental services may change,”

More people still use a dial telephone than I thought
Dozens of newspaper readers, bless their hearts, answered my rotary-phone-seeking plea.

Important New England news: Lobster emoji is now anatomically correct
They take lobster seriously in Maine, even when it's a Unicode standard rather than a seafood delicacy. As reported by the Portland Press-Herald (which knows a good Maine story when it sees one), some objected because the proposed lobster emoji had six legs and two...

Dead ski areas are reopening, for lots of reasons
The stealth reopening of Tenney Mountain ski area in Plymouth on Saturday after almost a decade of neglect is the latest example of a surprising resurrection of dead Northeast snow-sports mountains, and in some ways the most unusual of them. “There have been a great...