Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
We’re not the new Tornado Alley, despite how it feels
Is it just me or does it feel like we’re having more tornadoes in and around New Hampshire these days? I wouldn’t be surprised if we were. The climate emergency is making everything else worse so it’s only logical that it would increase the number of dangerous wind...
A musical two-fer: 1. The undignified end of old pianos …
There is a certain sort of online for-sale ad, whether in the pages of the Monitor or placed on Craigslist or tucked into social media, that sounds kind of sad. “Piano – still sounds great! The kids are grown and it doesn’t get played anymore. Give it a good home,...
… 2. Looking for a few good bassoon players
The last couple of years have seen such a parade of problems that it’s hard to be surprised by them any more. Even so, here’s a problem you probably haven’t thought of: New Hampshire is facing a shortage of bassoon players. A combination of factors made worse by COVID...
Dartmouth Health: N.H. isn’t an outlier in pediatric cancer after all
From Dartmouth Health: In 2018, a paper by David A. Siegel, MD, MPH, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made headlines in New Hampshire. The paper reported that the state of New Hampshire and the Northeast region of the U.S. have some of the...
N.H. patents through August 7
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from July 24 through Aug. 7. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Mobile Base Station Bubble Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
NH electric fleet leader snarfed up by private equity
One of the state's biggest energy-transition companies - Merchant Fleet of Hooksett, a giant truck-leasing firm that made one of the earliest plunges into electric vehicles (will buy 12,500 EV vans from GE's Brightdrop division), has been sucked into all-consuming maw...
Electric aviation startup settles in at Burlington airport
The Burlington, Vermont, City Council has approved a 75-year lease at the Burlington International Airport for electric aviation startup Beta Technologies, which plans to build a large manufacturing facility there. Beta has already spent $15 million renovating its...
Tide charts are now important on the Seacoast for houses as well as boats
There's a telling sentence in this New Hampshire Bulletin about life on the state's Seacoast as the oceans rise: "(Tide) charts help her and other residents predict when their streets will fill with water and become impassable, an event residents have come to expect...
Trout electrofishing in America
To see a lot more photos, check out the article on Concord Monitor here. (Subtle Richard Brautigan reference in that headline, don't you think?) Electrofishing has never been on my bucket list but I have to admit it has a certain appeal, especially if somebody else is...
A seed bank – or, rather, seed library – in NH
Until COVID, I never really thought about the fact that seeds you buy in feed stores are a product that has to be produced just like everything else and therefore subject to supply-chain snarls. And snarled the chain has been - it's been touch-and-go getting the...
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