Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Dueling EV bills in NH: Some pro, some con
Seacoast Online has a story (here it is) about diametrically opposing bills in the legislature regarding electric vehicles. This divide is reflected in seven bills filed this session in the New Hampshire Legislature, some of which conflict with each other: for...
NH patents through Jan. 28
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Jan. 28. *** Footwear TBL LICENSING LLC, Stratham, New Hampshire has been...
The science of ‘lost person behavior’ helps rescuers
Every Monday, especially in winter, New Hampshire Fish and Game sends out anywhere from three to 10 press releases about rescues of lost hikers that occurred over the weekend. Plenty of times those rescues involved hours of hiking and searching for somebody in the...
Should we be testing wastewater for measles, too?
Testing wastewater for signs of viral or bacterial disease has become pretty routine, one of the good things to come out of the pandemic. With measles making a comeback - is there no end to the damage Andrew Wakefield's fraud is doing to us? - maybe we should add that...
NH comes up empty in federal EV-charging grants
When it comes to electric vehicle charging, some New Hampshire fans have this quiet hope that the Biden administration will save us from ourselves, giving us the money to do what the gasoline-loving state government won't. Alas, no New Hampshire applications are among...
More confirmation that climate change is de-winterizing our winters
From NHPR, another story confirming what we all know about our winters: "A new study from Dartmouth, focused on snowpack in the last 40 years across the Northern Hemisphere, shows human-caused warming is having a big impact on winter. In New England, the researchers...
North Country eagerly awaits the eclipse, but wishes it wasn’t coming during mud season
Colebrook is a nice little town alongside the Connecticut River not far from Quebec that has about 2,000 residents. On April 8, however, it will be a nice little town of … well, nobody really knows. “Are we going to have 2,000 more people or 10,000? Are we going to...
Deepfake audio tries to keep NH Democratic voters at home
In what appears to be the first case of AI-created political lies (aka "misinformation"), some New Hampshire voters have received robocalls that sound like President Biden telling them not to vote, a message that “appears to be artificially generated” and should be...
NH patents through Jan. 21
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Jan. 21. *** Nucleic Acids Encoding Chimeric Receptor Comprising NKP30...
Mass General Hospital to try non-autonomous drones to deliver medicine to patients’ homes
UniversalHub, a Boston-oriented news site, reports that a company with the maybe-clever-maybe-annoying name of Draganfly ("a" not "o") will provide non-autonomous drones to Mass General in a test of delivering medicine, even medical equipment, to patients' homes. The...