My column this week - complete with a video interview and paper-folding demonstration by Telegraph photographer Correy Perreine - concerns Thomas Hull, one of the country’s foremost origami-mathematics researchers.
Yes, it’s a serious topic - despite the flapping bat.
I didn’t have room in the paper to go into much about the other papers being [...]

A state Senate committee likes the idea, says the Union-Leader. It would allow a credit of up to $50,000 - a nice chunk of change for a small company, but perhaps not worth the paperwork hassle for a big firm. I can’t say I have any experience to judge.

That may be the lesson of the Boston pediatrician, reported in today’s Globe, who was anonymously blogging about his malpractice trial as it was going on. When the fact came out in court, he lost.
UPDATE: Doctor’s blogs are more common than I realized. Here’s one from a Nashua physician, Kevin Pho, of Nashua Medical Group. [...]

A green-light image of the Crab Nebula taken in October 2005 by Toru Yamada, from the Dartmouth press release.
As part of her senior year as an astronomy major at Dartmouth College, Gwen Rudie helped with calculations that seem to confirm that the Crab Nebula is, indeed, the result of the "guest star" (supernova) spotted by [...]

New Hampshire, like most of the country and parts of Europe, is facing unexplained bee die-off, as we have discussed before. Today, Salon.com has a terrific discussion about possible causes, ranging from weather to fungus to insecticides (w-a-a-a-y down the list is cell phones). No conclusions available, but it really covers the gamut of [...]

Wouldn’t it be cool to have scads of strangers fascinated in you because you’re good-looking? Doesn’t everybody want to be a gorgeous insta-celebrity?!?
Not after reading this, they don’t - a Washington Post story about a female high school track star in California who, without doing any Paris Hilton-ish garbage, is the subject of massive [...]

Lawmakers from New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine got together and agreed that, yes, the region needs more broadband (whoa, that’s a shocker) and, yes, they’re worried about the effect of the proposed sale of all Verizon phone lines to FairPoint Communications. Otherwise, judging from this Portsmouth Herald story, nothing happened.

They’ve rolled it out only in one California city, but with Verizon abandoning its FiOS TV plans in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, it’s the only wired cable alternative around. I’m not sure where, if anywhere, AT&T offers local service in New Hampshire, though, so this might never affect us at all.

DEKA’s robotic third arm has proved irresistible to Joy of Tech, which old-timers will know as the "After Y2K" spinoff.

The annual talk is back about the possibility of Internet taxation. New Hampshire would have nothing special if a federal access tax ("email tax" or "Internet tax") was created, but I’m not sure what would happen if sales tax over the Internet got strengthened. (A bill was introduced into the Senate last week that would [...]

Alas, New Hampshire doesn’t t have a big enough poultry industry to emulate this 55-megawatt plant in Minnesota, which will be powered by turkey poop - we used to, in the 1950s, when eggs and chickens were our last major animal-agriculture business, but that was a long time ago.
Of course, there is Environmental Power [...]

My Telegraph column this week profiles Dartmouth professor/entrepreneur Lee Lynd, who is genetically manipulating bacteria so they’ll turn wood waste into ethanol - and, with any luck, make him and his new company a zillion dollars.
A personal note that I didn’t include in the column: Neither of us realized this until I went up [...]

This has nothing to do with New Hampshire, but who can resist this essay bringing the Buffon Needle Problem into your kitchen? And yes, it works.
(I found this thanks to the ever-incomparable Improbable Research blog)

An estimate by North Carolina State University says that as of this year, maybe this month, more people in the world live in urban areas than rural areas - for the first time in history.
How about New Hampshire? It depends on your definition of rural and urban, of course. The U.S. Census designates a [...]

At least, a panel on global warming will go there June 4 for a hearing.
The hearing will take place in the lodge and outdoors. (I assume they’ll all ride up in the gondola. I’d be more impressed if they had hiked up to Franconia Ridge.) It will include testimony on the impact of climate [...]