New Hampshire legislators have jumped on the cell-phones-are-bad-for-kids bandwagon (which is a legitimate bandwagon, BTW) but they did it in a such a sweeping and vague way that everybody's confused. Basically the law says that cell phones aren't allowed in the...

Gather round, dear readers, and let me tell you the story of a nasty invasive insect. No, wait, don't run away — this is a happy story. And it involves a cute dog named Izzy. Our story concerns the Asian longhorned beetle, a beetle native to east Asia that, no...

EDITOR'S NOTE: There will be no Granite Geek next week. I know that's a big blow, so as compensation I'm rerunning this piece from 2020 that discusses perhaps my favor NH history story, the Gravity Research Foundation. I am happy to say that the Space Force has come...

For two decades I've been writing about the transition that New Hampshire agriculture has gone through, from a few large farms growing a single crop (apples, for example) that is sold en masse to wholsalers, to many small farms that grow a bunch of stuff (veggies,...

(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 Aug. 10. Power Budget Calculation Using Power Headroom PARALLEL WIRELESS,...

I live across the street from a dirt road that runs down a short but steep hill. When there are really heavy rains, as happens more often these days thanks to our warming atmosphere, sand can flow clear across the road into my driveway and the town has to come out and...

The opossum, of course. What other choice was there? U-L story here. When I was a kid, possums were a southern thing. I don't think they were found in New Hampshire back then, or at least were very rare. Just another species moving north as we change the climate.

Canary Media has a story about Lexington, Mass., doing what more towns should do - banning new nat-gas hookups in buildings - and the result on housing construction. Surprisingly, perhaps, it had no effect. Whether this is translatable everywhere is uncertain, since...

(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 Aug. 3. ***Reinforced Wood Fiber Core and Method of Making ThereofSOUHEGAN...