Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Calculus is the biggest filter keeping women out of science
You can make a reasonable argument that the development of calculus in the 17th century - giving us the ability to quantify rates of change for all natural processes - marked the beginning of the modern world. Almost nothing in the industrialized economy would have...
Pub installs Faraday cage to block phone signals
And from East Sussex, south of London, comes the latest "mobile phones are ruining life" event - a landlord is trying to block phone signals by creating a Faraday cage around the bar. He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar which absorbs and...
Drones over Nashua!
Eversource says the FAA has given it permission to use a drone to inspect a substation and systems in downtown Nashua, around Bridge Street. This seems incredibly sensible - quiet and no less safe than doing it with a helicopter, certainly. I suspect that Eversource...
Riding a bicycle while pulling a 40-pound dog in a trailer
Occasionally on my commute I pass a guy riding a bike along a 50 mph two-lane road while pulling a dog in a trailer. News gets slow in summertime and any story is a good story, so a couple weeks ago I pulled over to the side of the road at the top of a hill, wrote...
As software sneaks into network switches and controllers, UNH IOL keeps up
My Monitor column today talks about how the InterOperability Lab at UNH has launched a new consortium to deal with Software-Defined Networks, as "software eats the world" moves into the hardware keeping the internet internet-ish. You can read my prose poetry...
A vegetarian follows a cute pig from birth to slaughterhouse
I am not a vegetarian but I sympathize with them - my red meat consumption has fallen to almost nothing through culinary inertia and the fact that Indian vegetarian meals are awesome - so it has been interesting to watch a vegetarian colleague do a series of stories...
The neatest office in Concord is inside a fire tower – sort of
The best part of being a reporter is that when you see something interesting, you have an excuse to poke your nose into it. So when I wondered about this weird bright-green cupola sitting on top of one of the downtown office buildings in Concord, I got to find out...
Police alerted to ‘internet game similar to geocaching’
The Wilton, N.H., police are darned if they're going to stoop to using brand names in their police log, as reported in this week's Milford Cabinet: July 8: Police responded to Pleasant Street for a report of someone riding up and down the street, stopping constantly...
If mountain lions were here, we wouldn’t hit deer with our cars so much
Mountain lions have not returned to New Hampshire on their slow movement east (despite what some folks think), but maybe we should help them come back. Why? To get rid of some of these $%^#!! deer. Our coupled deer population models and socioeconomic valuations...
Fisher (not fisher cat) population is down in NH – but why?
The moose is New Hampshire's iconic mammal, but in some ways that mid-sized member of the weasel family known as the fisher (not fisher cat - it's not a cat; although it doesn't fish either so the name makes no sense) is just as iconic. It's mysterious and dangerous...
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