I didn't watch the presidential debate last night because I was at a more interesting event - Science Cafe NH started its fall season, more about which anon - but I understand that the two physicians who are running for the office waffled on a topic where they should...

Green Mountain Power, the main utility in Vermont, plans to take an entire state park off the grid and power it with solar panels and Tesla batteries. They aren't doing it because it cool and Vermont-y, although it is. They're doing it because the power line...

True video game geeks know Ralph Baer, who led development of what became Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game, while working at  Sanders Associates (now BAE Systems) in Nashua. I wrote several stories about him while working at the Nashua Telegraph, which is...

NHPR has an interesting piece today (read or listen to it here) about efforts by the New England Wildflower Society to collect seeds from local plants, in case they become endangered because, say, a huge storm destroys the coastal area where they thrive. the key, says...

The Valley News reports (here) that the Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon, NH, has turned back on its Tor server, which was shut after police raised questions. It sounds like it was a polite, intelligent discussion - a rarity these days: The U.S. Department of...

I created a standing desk at the Nashua Telegraph by nailing together three boards into a keyboard support that I could put under my desk when I wanted to sit down (ergonomic variety is key). The keyboard and monitor weren't really at the right heights, but it was...

The boring business of generating and transmitting electricity isn't very boring any more, as technology (distributed solar and digital communication) is, in that fave phrase of the techno-biz folks, being  disrupted. New Hampshire is looking for suggestions...

The Secretary of the Interior is in New Hampshire today, partly to announce that the New England cottontail won't be put on the endangered-species list because restoration efforts here and in other parts of New England have stemmed its population decline. The Globe...