Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Why do we hate invasive plants? Remove buckthorn and watch what happens to white pine
By Lori Wright, UNH News Service: Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station have found that the economically valuable eastern white pine thrives when the invasive glossy buckthorn shrub is actively managed in New Hampshire forests. The University of New...
Best part of electric car Science Cafe: First-person memories of a Model T
Science Cafe Concord discussed electric cars on Tuesday - it was a full house, despite the snow - and I think the best part came from a 97-year-old audience members who recalled starting his dad's Model T, which required hand-cranking the engine, and setting the choke...
Speaking of science cafe, a new one is coming to Portsmouth
Another science cafe series is starting in Portsmouth, with discussions focused on environmental issues. Called Piscataqua Science Cafe, it's hosted by Sam Evans-Brown on NH Public Radio. It has no connection to Science Cafe New Hampshire, except for the attitide that...
The best wikipedia article that wikipedia killed: “Chess-related deaths”
A little something special just for you newsletter readers.
Global sea ice is at lowest level ever recorded
There are times when it seems to me that almost all news is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic - and seeing this news is one of those times: Global sea ice is at the lowest level ever recorded. The scary part is the speed at which this...
Speaking of bitcoin, NH bill would remove ‘money transfer’ regulation
Speaking of bitcoin, as I did yesterday, there's a bill before the New Hampshire legislature which would remove a designation put in place last year that classified selling bitcoin as a "money transfer," a designation that carries requirements for bonding and...
NH is the nation’s bitcoin-machine leader – hooray (I guess)
Bitcoin-accepting bar Area 23 does roughly as much bitcoin business as it does jukebox business, says the owner.
Little brown bat populations may be building up some resistance to white nose syndrome
Goodness knows we need a little bit of good environmental news these days – and this is a little bit.
Steelhead trout grown in floating tanks at sea, ending up on your plate
I've been writing about UNH aquaculture since 1999, including efforts to develop ways to raise large numbers of fish in huge floating tanks (really nets suspended from big floating rings) in the ocean. It's cool to see that this operation is paying dividends in the...
Hackers ‘always attack on a Friday’ and other gleanings from Science Cafe
Yesterday's Science Cafe NH in Nashua discusses cybersecurity, with panelists Tim Winters of UNH-Interoperability Lab and John Murphy of Flowtraq, a network-monitoring firm in Lebanon, N.H. They were both excellent; unfortunately the Nashua SCNH is not filmed, so you...
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