Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Climate change isn’t just altering seasons, it’s altering their transition periods (think mud season)
Scientists refer to the transition from winter to spring, as temperatures rise, ice melts and frost heaves buckle our roads, as the “vernal window”, and a new study shows it’s changing. New Hampshire researchers investigating how climate change influences the...
Dungeons and Dragons enters the Toy Hall of Fame
I never was a Dungeons and Dragons fanatic but I know plenty of people who play or used to play, and of course it has become a sort of totem of geek culture. So it's appropriate that it was one of the three playthings just added to the Toy Hall of Fame - along with...
The nation’s first statewide multiple-candidate voting will take place on our border
N.H. has tried for decades to institute some sort of alternative voting – Maine beat us to it.
As hackers eye Internet of Things, here are ways to limit the damage
In light of the DDOS attack on Dyn from scads of infected Internet of Things items, I talked to Dyn fellow Andrew Sullivan about what we, as IoT buyers, should do.
Maine backs ranked-choice voting; Florida likes GMO mosquitoes (sort of)
Tuesday night results of a few ballot initiatives of interest to Granite Geek types: In Maine, there was an effort to allow ranked-choice voting for all statewide and federal elections (not local races). That system is one of several alternatives to the...
How to fake your ballot selfie! (and it might be important)
I have a story and video in the Concord Monitor about how to fake your ballot selfie, so you can go to your blowhard brother-in-law and pretend that you supported his candidate even if you didn't want to. The column and video are here, and they're highly entertaining....
Botnets are now being tested to attack an entire country – Liberia
News about the Mirai botnet - millions of tainted Internet of Things devices being used to tandem to swamp targets with DDoS attack, as happened to Dyn last month - just keeps getting worse. Now an entire country, Liberia in west Africa, has been targeted, reports...
MIT grad who says he “invented email” gets money out of the Gawker lawsuit
I must admit to never having heard of claims by Shiva Ayyadurai, an MIT graduate, that he invented email in the 1970s, but Boston Business Journal reports that he "won $750,000 Wednesday in a bankruptcy court settlement with Gawker Media, according to court...
White House wants to build a national (other-than-Tesla) car-charging network
The United State Department of Transportation (DOT) is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors, which it's saying cover nearly 25,000 miles, in 35 states. I can't find a map and am awaiting DOT response so I don't know what, if any, New Hampshire...
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