Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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...
Frequency overlap is a pain: Shipyard com system messes with garage door openers
If you wonder why companies and governments squabble so much, and spend so much money, over access to the broadcast spectrum, here's why: KITTERY, Maine — If your garage door remote isn’t opening or closing the door even after changing the batteries, you’re probably...
Surprisingly, ‘Is primary season EVER going to end?’ was not a trending Google query
If you’ve ever wondered about Jeb Bush’s real name, Chris Christie’s height, how many kids Carly Fiorina has or whether Marco Rubio is Canadian (yes, Marco Rubio), then you have lots of company, according to Google Trends. This arm of the search giant crunches data...
If you float due east from New Hampshire’s coast, what country will you land in?
If you float due east from New Hampshire's coast, what country will you land in? Unless you're a geography geek, you probably guessed too far north. The answer is Spain, as shown by this map from the site relativelyinteresting.com. The Gulf Stream keeps Europe a lot...
America’s use of coal to produce electricity is lowest on record
One-third of the electricity produced in America last year came from burning coal (including from three plants in New Hampshire). That's a lot, and it should be reduced - but on the glass-half-full side of things, it's the lowest percentage since records were first...
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