Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
No, don’t put that plastic bag in your recycling
An unlikely combination of China’s economic power and plastic bags’ physical messiness has brought new restrictions to curbside recycling in Concord. Concord has increased its efforts to keep plastic bags and plastic film such as cellophane or Bubble Wrap out of its...
More scientific love of blackboards
Regular readers know that my favorite Granite Geek story of recent time involves Dartmouth research into why mathematicians love blackboards. ("Just as surely as a+b=b+a, mathematicians love their blackboards") So I was delighted to stumble across another...
Nobody, not even DEKA, wants to give the state a Stirling engine
Stirling engine fans (boy do they exist – I hear from them all the time) will be disappointed that Dean Kamen’s firm didn’t respond to a state Request For Proposals.
Lobster population in Gulf of Maine has probably peaked (*sob!*)
The days of cheap lobster may be winding down.
The cougar is extinct, long live the cougar!
Since the eastern cougar (not the western one) is extinct, the government realizes it doesn’t need to be on the endangered species list any more.
Could the VW settlement build us an electric car charging network?
After Volkswagen was caught letting people die for profit, they agreed to fork over lots of money so that people wouldn’t get really mad at them and stop buying their stuff. What should NH do with its share?
Shared town names are a pain, but this gif-y database is fun
In case you’re wondering, all six New England states have a Lincoln and a Warren, and five of the six have an Andover, Bridgewater, Bristol, Chester, Newport, Plymouth, Richmond, Washington and Windsor.
Striped bass vs. Atlantic salmon – Canada study says the stripers are winning
Approximately 18 per cent of juvenile Atlantic salmon from this one New Brunswick river are eaten by stripers en route to the ocean.
UNH researchers say human impact on Amazon forest evident even after 500 years
From UNH News Service: Tropical forests span a huge area, harbor a wide diversity of species, and are important to water and nutrient cycling on a planet scale. But in ancient Amazonia, over 500 years ago, clearing tropical forests was a way of survival to provide...
Bill wants math to analyze our political redistricting
The idea of using mathematical algorithms to determine whether electoral districts are fair has gained surprising traction in the past year, including a Jan. 9 federal court ruling that used math to call North Carolina congressional districts biased. Now a lawmaker...
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