Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
New Hampshire polling places no longer warn you not to take ‘ballot selfies’
One of the most intriguing, if not vital, stories swirling around New Hampshire voting in the past four years has involved "ballot selfies", or photos of your own completed ballot that are posted online. In 2014 the state made them illegal, a modern reflection of...
As the Arctic melts, New England needs to be prepared
The unbelievable weather changes that we are seeing within the Arctic Circle - it was above freezing for a few days in darkest mid-winter, and an ice-free Arctic now seems a real possibility - appear pretty removed from New Hampshire, but not so: Shipping routes...
Seven years later, the Hooksett disks are still floating around the world
What happens when you accidentally dump 4 million plastic disks into the Merrimack River? You eventually surprise somebody on a beach in England.
Can a home woodstove make electricity?
The Alliance for Green Heat sponsors an annual competition to build a better wood stove. This year’s competition, the fourth, has an added wrinkle: Part of it “will focus on thermoelectric wood stoves that generate electricity”.
An oil refinery (!!!) was almost built on the New Hampshire seacoast
A trio of local ladies take on the the world’s richest man – and win! It sounds like a Lifetime made-for-TV movie.
We love fishers in New Hampshire – we just don’t know how many there are
In wildlife biology it’s often true that the best way to get very basic data is to to kill some of your subjects.
Here a makerspace, there a makerspace, almost everywhere a makerspace …
Concord is talking about setting up a makerspace. There are, by my count, six or maybe seven already operating in the state.
NH should have signs for electric car charging – a brilliant idea, in 1993!
This gives me a chance to take a look back at one of my stories that took a look back at one of my stories. My career is a veritable house of mirrors.
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.
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