There’s no New Hampshire connection, but I can’t resist this story about a Kentucky official who tried to keep people out of a public fountain by posting a sign warning that the water contains Hydrogen. He told the local paper that he thought people might think of hydrogen bombs and stay away. Shades of dihydrogen [...]

As reported by New Hampshire Business Review, Portsmouth-based Environmental Power Corporation has announced plans for a fourth plant that will take manure from a massive dairy operation and use digesters to turn it into what they charmingly call "renewable natural gas". Such projects may not be feasible in New Hampshire, though, because our dairies don’t [...]

The government initiative being most closely watched by fans of Linux and other "open source" software is in Massachusetts, where the state’s Information Technology Division has proposed standardizing all government documents on the Open Document Format standard.

That plan was hailed by advocates who said it freed the state from Microsoft’s monopoly and ensured [...]

The study (described by Dartmouth here), published in the August 11 journal Science, studied a fish called flannelmouth characin (Prochilodus mariae) in South American rivers. The fish eats fine organic matter on the river bottom, an important step in distribution of carbon in the river, and researchers found that over-fishing by locals completely altered [...]

Here’s a good story from New Hampshire Business Review about discrepancies between estimates from two branches of the U.S. Census concerning New Hampshire’s immigrant influx: The American Community Survey, which queries a small part of the population each year, says the number of foreign-born residents in NH has increased 18 percent in five years, while [...]