Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Circle the Area Code wagons and protect the 603 at all costs!
Worried that the growth of telephone numbers means an iconic symbol of New Hampshire might be elbowed aside in a few years, Gov. Chris Sununu is telling the state to “investigate durable strategies … for lengthening the useful life of the 603 Area Code.” His executive...
Sununu says All hands on deck to protect 603 Area Code!
Worried that the growth of telephone numbers means an iconic symbol of New Hampshire might be elbowed aside in a few years, Gov. Sununu is telling the state to “investigate durable strategies … for lengthening the useful life of the 603 Area Code.” His...
PAL-V flying car “nears delivery milestone”
Flying cars have lost most of their cutting-edge coolness to drones and electric aircraft. Nothing reflected this more than the way Terrafugia, the MIT spinoff that worked on a flying car in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for years, saw it turned into a...
NH is shrinking, the higher-education chapter
The number of students enrolled full time in the state’s public colleges and universities dropped 13.6 percent from 2019 to the 2022-2023 school year, according to a University of System of New Hampshire annual board report released last month. Nationally, enrollment...
If it wasn’t for people moving here (especially from Massachusetts), NH would be shrinking
The latest chapter in New Hampshire demographics reads like the other chapters over the past half-decade: More people are dying here than are being born, with the difference made up by people moving here from out of state. As often as not, “from out of state” means...
Quebec powerline to NH (no, not Northern Pass) gets federal support
A transmission line that would bring Canada hydropower into New Hampshire and also let New England send power north is one of three projects to get federal support, part of a $1.3 billion commitment designed to increase the nation’s ability to move electricity around...
N.H. patents through Oct. 29
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Oct. 29. *** Flow Meter and Related Method DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED...
Even cross-country skiing needs snowmaking in New England
The New Hampshire town of Hanover, home to Dartmouth College, has always been a New England skiing hotbed. So it says something that a new Nordic (i.e., cross-country) ski area is going to have snowmaking. The hotbeds are getting too hot to count on snow, I guess: Tom...
If there’s an official state flower, bird and bug, why not official state pronunciation?
Attention, residents of New Hampshire's capital city: If you have ever winced at hearing a presidential candidate pronounce the Capital City’s name as “kon-KORD” rather than “KON-kerd,” there’s a piece of legislation you may be interested in. A proposed bill...
After the floods, Montpelier takes a new look at removing dams
In mid-summer I wrote a piece called "With all the flooding, should we still be removing dams? Yup!" Here's a specific followup from SevenDays Vermont: How a long desire to remove four small dams on the Winooski River is getting a new push after the summer flooding....
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