Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
I guess we can’t skip filtering stream water in the White Mountains
Last week Slate magazine ran an article saying that it was pretty safe to drink from streams in the back country, despite warnings that you can never be sure it doesn't contain nasty bug-churning bacteria from animal poop. That would be cool, because using filters or...
Northern Pass rejection might make distributed energy more attractive
The Site Evaluation Committee doesn’t have any say about your solar panels!
Classified job ad of the day: Timber Rattlesnake Assistant
I thought the PSU was Plymouth State University, but it's Penn State U., alas. Still, here is a great want ad: Rattlesnake Assistant. The main responsibilities of the position will be to assist in the capture and processing of timber rattlesnakes, the radio telemetry...
New Hampshire draws a blank on map of Nazi wannabes
Activists are grabbing information from a website called The Daily Stormer, favored by modern Nazi wannabes, and have developed a map showing where they live (roughly) in the country.
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...
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