by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
Last month, I noted the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia with a column (here it is) devoted in part to an article about the so-called Feynmann point, a sextet of 9’s in a row that can be found 762 digits into the decimal expansion of pi. The six 9s are sometimes...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
“Is the cross section of a banana an ellipsoid, and if so, can it be used to gauge its volume and surface area?” That is the issue considered by the Annals of Improbable Research today. Who says mathematics isn’t useful?
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
Waves of snowballs on a Maine lake … need one say more? I learned about it from the Bangor Daily News.
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2016 | Economy-Business, None
The following federal patents were awarded to inventors and companies in New Hampshire through Feb. 5. Silicon Laboratories, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (9,246,500) developed by Michael H. Perrott, Nashua, N.H., for a “time-to-voltage converter using a...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2016 | Blog
The British newspaper The Guardian is the real newspaper (lots of full-time reporters and editors and photographers, not just commentators or aggregators) that has been most aggressive in its belief that free digital publication is the future. It has a fabulous free...
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