Here at the Nashua Telegraph, we’ve all been getting oddly-worded e-mails recently from people in the UK or other unlikely places who want to place a classified ad about their dog. (One that I got was signed "Revered John Smith" - honest.)
It’s a variant of the old Nigerian e-mail scam, says Cheryl Roberts, the [...]

Photo by Bob Hammerstrom - Nashua Telegraph
They unveiled the Lego Millyard Project yesterday - a 100-foot-long model of the Amoskeag Mills at its 1900 heyday, made entirely of Legos, with running water in the canals and Web cams on the running trains to give a minifigure’s-eye view of life. A geek’s dream, thanks to the [...]

Sorry about the overlap with earlier posts, but this is snowmaking season (or it would be if we weren’t having this $%#$@$ warm November), so I’ll be lazy and link to my Telegraph column today about the mechanics of snowmaking.
By the way, that illustration is a Koch snowflake - a simple type of fractal. [...]

A UNH study on the effects of stress on prenatal health is seeking 30 pregnant women, age 17 to 25 who are in their first trimester and are "experiencing high levels of stress." (Is it possible to be pregnant and not stressed?) They’ll collect saliva samples to measure stress hormones, and then analyze the baby’s [...]

Warm weather and rain keeps pushing off mass opening of N.H. ski areas … but as this New York Times story shows, we’re not alone: European warmth has distrupted the Alpine skiing World Cup season to the point where they’re not sure whether it can continue. Ouch!
By the way, as of today (Nov. 27), only [...]

My science column last week was about a New Hampshire Historical Society presentation on old-time "snake oil" and and other nostrums. This produced, I’m happy to say, a reminisence about computer legend Ken Olsen (founder of Digital Equipment Corp.), from Amherst’s Linux guru, Jon "maddog" Hall. To read it, just click on the "more" ..

From [...]

Another "citizen scientist" project, and this a big one: Collecting information from hikers on flora, faunta, air and water quality, plus other factors such as visibility as a reflection of ozone pollution, along the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trial. It’s similar to volunteer-monitoring projects in the White Mountains (which hosts the roughest portion) but a lot longer [...]

I was going to link to a Mount Washington Observatory commentary on how warm November has been there, but I found this far more entertaining thread on the site’s weather discussion forum. Where else can you read a message that starts:

”I’m wondering at what temperature spit will freeze before hitting the ground. I’ve done [...]

The Boston Globe has a profile of one of the new members of Congress, a guitarist for the soft-rock group Orleans (they hit with pop pablum "Still the One" many moons ago) who is a longtime anti-nuker. Since he’s a New York Congressmen, there’s not much local connection …. except for this sentence:

"He got to [...]

UNH’s Nano Group and all those Massachusetts areas looking to expand nano-technology jobs will be interested - dismayed, actually - in this news: The Washington Post reports that the EPA will regulate a number of "germ-killing" nanoproducts, those that use silver nano-sized particles, due to questions about long-term effects of all that bacteria-killing material being [...]

Just $3,888 at the Sam’s Club in Manchester, says the Union-Leader!

No, not a new recipe - rather, the beleaguered oyster population in the state’s Great Bay had a surprisingly good spawing season, according to the state Department of Fish & Game, which monitors several oyster beds.
The measurement includes what may be my favorite term in ecological studies: Spatfall. This is the measure of [...]

Well, no, not quite - but UNH researcher Xiangming Xiao has won a National Institutes of Health grant to use remote-sensing data from low-Earth satellites to model environmental changes that could help forecast the spread of avian flu.
From the UNH article: "Using imagery of varying resolution from different typesof satellites, the team can map [...]

Cloud-seeding has long been touted as a solution to droughts, but there’s no evidence that it does anything but move rain or snow from one place to another - if it even does that. But there’s hope: I’ve just heard of a five-year test that started last winter out in Wyoming designed to use cloud-seeding [...]

HoloDek, a Hampton LAN gaming company, has just opened a site at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, with occasional cash-prize tournaments. DWC, which is trying to expand its computer-gaming degree program, likes the publicity and HoloDek likes the expansion as a first step in its plans to establish gaming-site franchises around the country (as I [...]