Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
TechOut brings NH another startup competition with six figures
The startup competitions are coming fast and furious. Last Friday was Rise of the Rest, featuring AOL founder Steven Case (if the words "warm regards" come to mind, you were also online before that Internet thing got up to speed*), which gave $100,000 to FreshAir...
Study: NH has put up just .01% of feasible commercial solar power
It seems surprising that more businesses don't have solar panels on their roof, especially all those in big industrial buildings with big, flat roofs. (Gaze down while taking off from Manchester airport southbound on runway 17/35 and you'll spot a sea of flat-roofed...
The little telephone museum that could
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...
UNH develops a new type of cherry tomato … mmmmmmm
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...
Celebrating our astronaut, Alan Shepard, and his … boat?
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...
Geeky pub quiz with racey subtext coming to N.H.
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"...
NH study: Education and politics have a messy effect on climate change opinions
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...
Is that a chip in your card or are you happy to buy from me?
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...
For 140+ years, Canada has been the source of most of our immigrants
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...
An important new-car metric: How many emus will it hold?
Tesla's new model has way-cool wing doors that flip up. You know what that means? It means you could load TWO emus into it at once! (If you've confused, check the photo on the Monitor story about the end of the Great Wandering Emu Caper.) Apparently Tesla isn't...
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