Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Car thief thwarted by manual transmission (cue laughter from old people)
The essence of local journalism is the cop story - a story about an arrest or crime in the area, often a rewrite of a press release or a story taken from the police log (although most police logs have been truncated to the point that this doesn't work well any more)....
Gulf of Maine kelp beds taking a hit from warming oceans
We're all familiar with what warming oceans are going to well-known species in the Gulf of Maine like cod (bad) and lobsters (good so far but not so good in the long run). But, of course, a system-wide change is going to affect pretty much everything, including...
The eclipse will be cool, but not cool enough to be worth damaging your eyesight
New Hampshire is going to be pretty far away from Monday’s solar eclipse, but the event will still be fun to watch – unless you’re victimized by the slimeballs selling unsafe eclipse-watching glasses, that is. Yes, it’s sadly true: Not even this delightful...
Another saltwater-and-freshwater fish to worry about: The Atlantic sturgeon
NOAA Fisheries on Wednesday designated critical habitat for Atlantic sturgeon- as part of efforts to help the anadromous (spawns in fresh water, lives in salt water) fish. Much of the Piscataqua River on the NH-Maine border is on the list, as is most of the...
Electric car charging faces the problem that a Keene group foresaw in 1993
Back in 1993, a group of folks got together to figure what the city of Keene needed for electric cars to thrive. After months of effort as part of a national competition, six people, including engineers, architects, planners and designers, came up with a series of...
UNH InterOperability Lab tackles power over Ethernet
The UNH InterOperability Lab is one of the state's tech-y (cliche alert!) hidden gems. It's got a national, even international, reputation for testing equipment and helping develop standards, but aside from the occasional brilliantly written, insightful article in...
Can quinoa be turned into a New Hampshire crop?
By UNH News Service: Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have launched a research project that aims to “re-domesticate” the superfood quinoa in Northern New England, giving the region’s farmers new...
The “I’m a Teapot” error code – the best thing in all of computing – is endangered
The best thing in all of computing might be the 418 status code, an offshoot of a longrunning joke called the Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol (wikipedia, of course, can explain that) which plays off the kids song I'm A Little Teapot. It states: Any attempt to...
Berklee professor makes audio map of the White Mountains
I've done stories about folks making geo-tagged maps with photos and data - here's a guy making one with sounds: For three weeks, the Berklee College of Music professor will traverse the national forest, ferreting out the best sounds with which to illustrate the...
Can math solve gerrymandering? If people allow it, yeah.
Back in January I wrote about a Tufts math professor's push to use mathematics to more objectively define voting districts and thus push back against gerrymandering. It was a story about House Bill 320 would would have established a commission to give the state's...
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