Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
You learn something every day: There are ‘shed hunters’ (no, not garden sheds)
Today's Concord Monitor has a great piece in The Forum section recently about "shed hunters" - a term that refers to people who hunt for antlers that have been shed in the woods, as compared to people who try to find their garden shed in the dark. Who knew? Not me....
Garmin’s purchase of beloved Maine mapmaker has fans very nervous
At the risk of sounding decrepit and backward-looking, I love paper maps. I love online maps and smartphone mapping apps, of course, but there's nothing like a large detailed paper map to give you a sense of place and context. I'm not alone in this, as evidenced by a...
Offshore wind is finally real in the U.S. (in a tiny amount)
I've got a story in the Monitor today about the future capacity auction, which is kind of boring as finance but also interesting as a reflection of the changing face of the electric grid - but the most interesting bit is probably this sentence: The annual auction also...
No GMO labeling in New Hampshire
The New Hampshire House of Representatives killed a bill that would have required the labeled of foods that used genetically-modified ingredients, reports the Concord Monitor. (I covered a standing-room-only hearing on the issue last month, if you want to see more of...
NH is high on list of states where snow is becoming rain (ugh)
I love winter and I love snow, but I hate wintery rain and you probably do, too. If it's going to be cold and precipitating, it better be what TV weather folks love to call "the white stuff." But increasingly it's not, especially in New Hampshire, as Climate Central...
45 moose collared in ongoing study of NH herd
From NH Fish and Game: A helicopter capture crew has completed the work of collaring additional moose for the third year of a study being undertaken by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in partnership with the University of New Hampshire. Fish and Game moose...
Wikipedia (bless its contrarian little heart) just made one of my columns wrong
Last month, I noted the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia with a column (here it is) devoted in part to an article about the so-called Feynmann point, a sextet of 9's in a row that can be found 762 digits into the decimal expansion of pi. The six 9s are sometimes called...
Is that an ellipsoid in your pocket or are you happy to calculate volume and surface area?
"Is the cross section of a banana an ellipsoid, and if so, can it be used to gauge its volume and surface area?" That is the issue considered by the Annals of Improbable Research today. Who says mathematics isn't useful?
Waves of snowballs on a Maine lake
Waves of snowballs on a Maine lake ... need one say more? I learned about it from the Bangor Daily News.
The purest – and best – digital-first newspaper is going broke, fast
The British newspaper The Guardian is the real newspaper (lots of full-time reporters and editors and photographers, not just commentators or aggregators) that has been most aggressive in its belief that free digital publication is the future. It has a fabulous free...
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