by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog
From US Fish and Wildlife Service: Over the past century, many shrublands and young forests across the Northeast have been cleared for development or have grown into mature forests. As this habitat has disappeared from much of the landscape, the populations of more...
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog
“An 1880 Maine insurrection could sink ranked-choice voting” – that’s the intriguing headline on this piece from the Bangor Daily News concerning efforts to install an alternative voting procedure in statewide races in Maine. As the name...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
If you missed the inaugural Science Cafe Concord last week, take heart: ConcordTV will air a distilled version of the two-hour discussion on its public channel, Comcast Channel 22. The 28-minute broadcast version of the event will air Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | Blog
The largest prime number ever found has been confirmed – it’s 2 multiplied by itself 74,107,18 times, minus one (in other words, it’s a Mersenne Prime) and it has 22,338,618 digits. It was discovered as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | Blog
Approval voting is the simplest form of alternative voting procedures – basically, it would let voters chose more than one candidate when more than one was running for a single office, as in the current GOP presidential primary. The choices wouldn’t be...
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