Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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.
Remember the Great Quaker Parrot Controversy of 2011? Now it’s about lobsters
How is a lobster in Sweden like a parrot in Sanbornton? Neither really belongs.
And what am I bid for a nuclear power cooling tower?
In the 1980s I was a reporter in Tennessee and I covered a number of auctions of material from the cancelled Clinch River nuclear power plant. It was pretty cool seeing developers bidding on 20-ton concrete structures and other industrial material. Something like that...
Galactic Tick Day is coming, and it’s got nothing to do with Lyme disease
In one week you can celebrate a delightfully weird astronomical event: Galactic Tick Day. It was created by a group of West Coast science enthusiasts to celebrate the journey that the Solar System takes around the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. The trip takes about 225...
Small Maine town will be part of an international microgrid-of-microgrids
Emera Maine, a smallish electrical utility in Bangord and northern Maine, is entering an interesting experiment, creating a microgird of solar, batteries and backup diesel at its operations center in tiny Hampden, Maine, and hooking that into a microgrid-of-microgrids...
Tonight in Concord: Science Cafe on “coping with climate change”
Tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 20) Science Cafe Concord returns after a summer hiatus to discuss the topic "Coping with Climate Change." I wrote a column in the Monitor today to spur attendance ... AND THEN FORGET TO WRITE WHAT TIME IT STARTS!!!! (Pounds head on desk) it...
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