Small-town museums are, let's be honest, usually cute and amusing, but not much more. And I speak as a guy who helps run my small town's history museum. That's why I was so delighted by the New Hampshire Telephone Museum in tiny Warner, which is an excellent museum...

I don't know about you, but my garden went bonkers this year, especially the cherry tomatoes. I almost go sick of the darn things, there were so many of them for so long. But I didn't get sick of them, because cherry tomatoes are one of the reasons that life is worth...

Alan Shepard might have been the first American in space (not in orbit - he rode a sub-orbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight on May 5, 1961) and was one of just 12 people who have walked on the moon, but because he's a New Hampshire boy, growing up in East Derry, we want...

Remember when "geek" meant a mutant who worked for a circus and bit the heads off chickens? No, I don't either, but I do remember when it was a seldom-used word that was mildly insulting - not as bad as "nerd" (or "knurd," as I learned to spell it - which is "drunk"...

A new research paper analyzing 35 surveys from 2010 to 2015 about climate change has found some obvious correlations with political beliefs (liberals are much more likely to agree that it's a human-caused problem* than are conservatives) and education (the more...

Tomorrow (Oct. 1) is the deadline for retailers to be able to accept the new charge cards with RFID chips on them, or face greater liability from card fraud. Many, particularly small retailers and shops and restaurants, will miss the deadline - because the new readers...

If you want to know why Northern New England is the most Anglo (non-hispanic white) part of the country, a great map from Vox explains it. The map shows the top country of origin for each state at each dicennial census. In 1850 and 1860, Ireland was the biggest source...

There is a push to make governments design and implement programs which are objectively testable, and then to test them when deciding whether to continue. This is, of course, the basic approach of science. So it's seems a good idea to expand it to government. I...