Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
NH will never be truly geeky without more Ig Nobel winners
So far as I can tell, there was no New Hampshire connection among any of the winners of the 2015 Ig Nobel awards. Throughout the 25 years this prestigious award has been given, the Granite State's only Igs have been: Four NH doctors were among the 976 authors of a...
Oops … never mind (was: Northern Lights alert)
OK, I'm doing too many things at once ... I linked to an Accu-Weather story about Northern Lights coming that is from last year! (As was pointed out by a couple of commenters.) Move along, nothing to see here.
Ig Nobel prize show was its usual dignified self
I attended 15 Ig Nobel prize awards in a row down at Harvard but have missed the last couple, including last night's - so I'll have to depend on news coverage to tell you how this annual celebration of scientific goofiness went: Guardian: A man stung dozens of times...
If Pilgrim nuclear shuts down, how will the grid react?
The Globe reports that the owners of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on the coast south of Boston say they may have to shut because safety upgrades are too expensive. A succession of unplanned shutdowns of its reactor in recent years, and inspections that revealed...
New Hampshire commuters aren’t abandoning their alone-in-my-car habits
America may be changing its traveling habits - hipsters moving to cities so they can bicycle to work, and all that - but in public-transit-challenged New Hampshire, nothing much has changed in five years. According to the American Community Survey, a sort of...
Science Cafe about oceans was less depressing than I feared
Science Cafe New Hampshire had its first monthly discussion of the fall season last night in Nashua. the topic was fishing and fisheries, with marine fisheries experts from UNH Sea Grant and a Fish & Wildlife expert who's based at the federal fish hatchery in...
Vaccines don’t cause autism, period
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...
Vermont will take a state park off the power grid, because it’s cheaper
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...
Video game pioneer Ralph Baer to be honored with a plaque
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...
To save plant diversity, save local (*very* local) seeds
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...
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