Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Predicting the risk of opioid addiction & opioid overdose from algorithms
“Some day we’ll be able to do something like a functional brain scan – their brain lights up and you say, oh, we should never give this person opioids again – but not now.”
You know how I said that blockchain wasn’t good for anything in the real world? Well …
Those clever Vermonters go: “Hold my beer!”
If food is limited, beetles limit the number of offspring
Who knew that burying beetles were so parental?
A whole slew of recent NH patents
Recent patents issued to New Hampshire individuals and companies, as compiled by Targeted News Service for the Monitor: Collision Communications Assigned Patent for Calibrating Phase Hardware-Induced Distortion in Communications System Collision Communications,...
It took an 18-axle (not 18-wheel) tractor to move this transformer
If you’re the sort of person who gets irritated when people drive slowly on the highway, good thing you weren’t on Route 28 Monday when Eversource’s newest transformer was trundling down the road. “They go 5 or 10 miles an hour,” said Danny Cain, safety risk manager...
Vermont city tests blockchain for property deeds
South Burlington, Vermont, announced Monday that it was partnering with blockchain startup Propy to store real estate conveyance documents, according to a press release. The pilot’s aim is to see if a blockchain-based platform will reduce the costs of storing all the...
Climate change will hurt our forests, redux
I have been writing newspaper articles about the possible and ongoing effects of climate change on New Hampshire's forests for so long that the first stories weren't even put into any digital archive, so I can't point to them. But the issue is still around, as you can...
A historic building that engineers can love
Concord has what appears to be the nation's best-preserved gasholder, the name for a large building that once held flammable gas made from coal, which was commonly used for municipal lighting in the days before natural gas. It has just been added to the National...
What should we do with all our trees: Replace road salt or replace steel?
Considering that New Hampshire is smack dab in the middle of a region sometimes called the Saudi Arabia of biomass – i.e., we have lots of trees to sell – it’s a little weird that our logging and milling industries are struggling. The problem is that many of the...
“Where’s the NH sea border?” is almost as confusing as “how long is our coast?”
There's a legal fight over federal border checks throughout New Hampshire, which led Seacoast Online to wonder how far into the state the "border" is defined. As they report here, the legal definition (100 air miles from any border) covers virtually all of our little...
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