Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Blockchain is an awesome technology, but what exactly is it good for?
I decided I don't get enough email from readers calling me an idiot, so I wrote this for today's Concord Monitor: The holidays are over and the weather has been weird, which makes people grumpy. So let’s be grumpy, too. Specifically, let’s be grumpy about one of most...
Heating oil = diesel (within a suitable margin of error)
Of course, filling up a 250-gallon heating oil tank with 5-gallon cans of diesel brought from the gas station might take a while.
The best email I’ve gotten in a while, whatever my ‘tested IQ’ might be
” I have a tested IQ of 197. If you’re lucky, yours might be half what mine is.”
A surprising number of patents each week have an N.H. connection
How many patents each week have an N.H. connection - that is, get issued to a person or a company in the state? A reasonable number, actually. Here's the list for the final week of 2017, courtesy of Targeted News Service: Cryptzone North America, Nashua, New...
If the 15th exit is 39 miles from the border, should it be Exit 15 or Exit 39?
By federal standards, New Hampshire numbers its turnpike/interstate exits all wrong.
Santa is not only a ‘jolly old elf’, he’s a heck of a mathematician – he solved the Traveling Salesman Problem
Actually, he’s better than that: he solved vehicle routing with time windows!
Centrifugal governor, non-meteorite fires, disappearing mustaches and we love blackboards – 2017 wasn’t all bad
Some of my favorite stories of the year by my favorite reporter.
New Hampshire won’t fight net neutrality ruling
For a guy who went to MIT, Gov. Chris Sununu doesn’t exactly side with the geeks.
“Scientists keep discovering that on a regional basis, climate change is full of surprises”
“There’s a weather station buried in meters of snow atop Mt. Hunter where the ice core was drilled. If anyone ever finds it, there’s a BF5 sunshine sensor we’d like back” says one UNH researcher.
DEKA folks ponder a human-powered swimming contraption, with airfoils!
Some of the folks at DEKA R&D in Manchester have dreamed up an intriguing contraption that would be attached to swimmer’s lower leg and provide extra thrust. When does the Aquaman movie come out?
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