Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Why did the forest-dwelling, wide-ranging mammal cross the road?
Roads are a big problem for wildlife movement, as any driver knows who has swerved around a bunch of wild turkeys or a deer leaping out from the woods suddenly. Roads slice up even our rural North Country into relatively small chunks of land where wildlife can feel...
The handsomest man on radio, once a week
Once a week I chat for a few minutes with NHPR's Peter Biello, the host during All Things Considered in the evening, usually about that week's column in Monitor. They run at about 4:45 each Tuesday evening, but if that doesn't fit into your commute (what...
UNH research II: The solar wind and our planet’s radiation belt
UNH researchers used data from more than 10 spacecraft, including information from a UNH-led instrument on board NASA’s Van Allen Probes twin satellites, to get measurements of both the Earth’s inner and outer Van Allen radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of high-energy particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, during the uncommon solar wind conditions.
As always, Massachusetts lags NH: Their corpse flower finally blooms
The corpse flower at Franklin Park Zoo near Boston finally bloomed, a week after the one at Dartmouth College bloomed.
Hey, I’ve got a newsletter! It’s free, and worth every penny
Hey there, Faithful And Devoted Reader, I have great news: I have started a weekly email newsletter because it's trendy - no, wait, I mean because it's an useful way to get you information and entertainment. The Granite Geek newsletter had a soft launch last week and...
Ponder the internet after seeing ‘Lo and Behold’ Monday (please, no Werner Herzog imitations)
I will join a computer professor and a manager from high-flying tech company Dyn for a discussion about the history, technology, and impact of the Internet after a showing of “Lo and Behold” at Red River Theaters in Concord on Monday evening. “Lo and Behold: Reveries...
State’s banking regulations have NH bitcoin community rattled
A longer version of this story (I haven’t finished writing it yet) will appear in an upcoming edition of the Comcord Monitor – you’re getting an advance peek!
My visit to the disappointingly-not-too-stinky ‘corpse flower’
I’m still working on the “scratch-and-sniff” newsletter option.
The joy of mathematical models: How Allenstown got whipsawed
What’s behind weird fluctuations in the population projections for one New Hampshire town? Math.
Did a flu shot just give me a mild dose of flu? No, but it sure felt like it
All vaccines are imperfect, but the flu vaccine is more imperfect than most. Still worth it, of course, but imperfect.
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