Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
And now I’ll eat a little leaf-peeping crow
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column and blog lamenting how climate change / global warming was likely to make our leaves less eye-poppingly gorgeous in years to come. As part of it I talked about how the warm September was delaying leaf change this year, which...
That drone you want for Christmas? You might have to register it
Some time in the near future, drones will have to be registered with the U.S Department of Transportation. The news was announced Monday morning but plenty of details need to be worked out such as how and when and exactly what's involved. Will you have to get a sort...
State’s first makerspace moving to bigger, better digs
MakeIt Labs, the state's first makerspace/hackerspace, is moving from 6,000 square feet in a crummy old factory building in Nashua to 20,000 square feet is a much less crummy old factory building nearby. The Nashua Telegraph has the story. Much to my surprise, nobody...
FairPoint in NH cited as example of data centers spreading across the country
A website with the incredibly specific name of DataCenterFrontier.com has a big article about how data centers are springing up in places outside the "big six" - New York, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. One example it cites is: In many local...
The only good Batman meme is an algebra Batman meme
There are umpty-gazillion* versions online of a panel from a 1965 comic book in which Batman slaps Robin (this post explains where it comes from), so I thought Granite Geek should have one, too. * in either long-scale or short-scale numerical naming systems.
Supreme Court considers demand response – wait, don’t go: It’s actually interesting and important!
One of the problems with journalism is that important stuff is often boring. A perfect example is the way New Hampshire is considering new rules for the state Site Evaluation Committee. It will have huge repercussions about the existence and location of electric...
Even if NH bats rebound from white nose syndrome, it’ll take “hundreds of years”
NHPR's weekly Something Wild segment looks at white-nose syndrome, which has devastated bats throughout the Northeast, including New Hampshire. (I haven't seen a bat in my barn for more than five years.) You can listen to it here. As I've noted here in the past, there...
Killing cats – lots of cats – to save wildlife
A couple of years ago, Science Cafe New Hampshire tackled the subject of the damage that cats do to wildlife. They do a lot of damage - cats are awesome hunters - and the message was "cat owners, keep your cats indoors". We didn't go much into the subject of feral, or...
What will rising seas do to Seabrook Station? Drown it, fears this group
Interactive maps showing the effect of sea-level rise on coastal areas have been around a while - they're pretty easy to create if you've got the right tools, thanks to detailed topographic data - so the release of a new one by Climate Central isn't a big deal....
GraniteGeek on the radio: The screw thread edition
My weekly chat with Peter Biello of NH Public Radio covered, as usual, my Monitor column - which as you'll recall from a posting yesterday concerned a New Hampshire inventor who claims he has greatly improved on standard screw-thread design, and is trying to establish...
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