by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
The Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife wants to establish a breeding population of timber rattlesnakes on an island in the middle of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, to help the endangered species. The Globe reports that some locals are...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
ISO-New England, the folks who run the power grid for the six-state region, issued a report yesterday about the state of the system. It emphasized the growing importance of natural gas, and noted that in winter, coal and oil are making something of a rebound as...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2016 | Blog
The 1988 book “The Society of Mind” by MIT’s Marvin Minsky was my first introduction to the world of artificial intelligence – and judging from this piece in BoingBoing, I’m not alone. Minsky died Monday at age 88 (obit here). Even if AI...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Mathematically speaking, “one man, one vote” sounds about as exciting as “1 = 1.” Yet it turns out that something so simple can produce a Nobel Prize in economics, not to mention a slew of graduate school statistics homework. “Our class spent three weeks just on...
by David Brooks | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog
From Lori Wright, UNH News Service: Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have invented a low-cost method to monitor lakes for dangerous airborne toxins that have been linked to liver problems. Jim Haney, professor...
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