Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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...
You can watch the Perseid meteor shower from a Lake Winnipesaukee cruise
From The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center: The Perseid Meteor Showers return this weekend, starting Friday (Aug. 11). The waning moon will wash out fainter meteors, but as this meteor shower is known for its high prevalence of fireballs, there should still be a...
Dartmouth research is cited often in other folks’ patents
Dartmouth College ranks highly in a new measure of the impact of academic research on global innovation, according to the Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement. The index examines how often research articles from top science journals are cited in third-party patents...
Speaking of patents, here are some issued in New Hampshire recently …
(This runs in the Concord Monitor each Monday but it fell through the cracks this week, so here it is.) Recent patents issued to NH inventors and/or companies: DEKA Products, Manchester, N.H., has been assigned a patent (9,713,667) developed by five co-inventors for a...
A new store in Portsmouth accepts only bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
New Hampshire Tech Hub, a recently started news/event source for the state's tech community, has a story about a tourist shop in downtown Portsmouth that only accepts cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. It's called the Free State Bitcoin Shoppe - and I must say that I love...
If you have a Stirling engine to test, you can put it in the state hospital laundry room
New Hampshire has found the place it wants to test an intriguing power source known as the Stirling engine: In the laundry room of the state hospital. On Thursday the state asked for companies to bid on its plan for a Stirling engine – a variant of gas-powered engines...
UNH to study whether pesticides on crop seeds accidentally make weeds worse
From UNH News Service: A researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has received a $474,679 grant to determine if pesticide seed treatments inadvertently protect weed seeds in the soil from being attacked by naturally...
Founder of international math institute in Peterborough (yes, Peterborough) passes away
One of the most surprising connections between New Hampshire and science has to be the fact that the Clay Mathematics Institute, famous for its million-dollar Millennium Prizes to solve 9 deep mathematical problems (one of the original 10 has been solved), has its...
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