Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
No ice runway in NH this year
The Alton Bay Runway on Lake Winnipesaukee, the only FAA-sanctioned ice runway in the Lower 48, is not opening this season due to warm weather. Although it's snowing to beat the band as I write this, the winter has been a dud so far and doesn't look like it will...
Hospitals are jammed but it’s not just COVID – it’s everything
There's COVID, there's the “tripledemic” of respiratory viruses, there's years of pandemic stress and overwork, there's a shortage of healthcare alternatives, there's drugs overdoses, car crashes and an aging, overweight society. There are no shortage of possible...
N.H. patents through Jan. 22
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Jan. 22. *** Automated System for Projective Analysis INKBLOT HOLDINGS, LLC, Windham, New...
Lebanon, NH, to require EV charging at new developments
As I was putting together the newsletter I heard that the town of Lebanon has approved amendments to the city's Zoning regulations that will require some electric vehicle charging at new developments - one of the first such moves in the state (Edit: Dover has done...
NH commission on crypto has lots of questions but few answers (just like everybody else)
Digital assets like bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology are potentially useful for New Hampshire, a state commission has concluded, but are so new and different that nobody’s sure how the state can harness that potential – or even whether it should. “With...
Science Cafe in Nashua discusses crypto tonight
Science Cafe NH is returning to Nashua this year on Thursday evenings in a new venue. Please join us for a free, open conversation about Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and NFTs THURSDAY, January 19, 2023 6:00-8:00 PM The Millyard Brewery - 25 E Otterson St, Nashua This is...
More (but not enough) details about our Christmas Eve almost-brownouts
There has been a lot of semi-informed discussion about what happened in New England for a few hours on Christmas Eve, when power prices went through the roof - spiking at 10 times their usual rate - and we came semi-close to not having enough electricity to meet...
ChatGPT has us flummoxed in NH just as much as everywhere else
Hands up, anybody who is old enough to remember ELIZA. That “natural language” program came out of MIT in the mid-1960s and caused a flurry of interest by creating text conversations online that fooled some people into thinking they were dealing with a human being....
N.H. patents through Jan. 15
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Jan. 15 *** Deployable Stabilization Feet for a Portable Medical Imaging System...
What’s urban? What’s rural? Only the Census Bureau knows for sure
If you were planning on visiting that great urban cluster of Charlestown, New Hampshire, any time soon – sorry, you’re too late. It’s now rural. Same with Epping and Farmington. Until this year those three communities rubbed shoulders with Concord, Keene and the...
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