by David Brooks | Oct 27, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Cliches are annoying because they’re obvious and overused, but usually, they’re overused because they’re accurate. So I’m going to ignore my inner writing snob and tell you that today’s column concerns a win-win – in fact, a win-win-win! – for the environment, for...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has entered the second of three phases in changing the way people can pay state taxes, and this time it affects a lot more people. The New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration is rolling out an online user portal and revenue management system...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Red oak and white pine trees could experience slower growth next year as a result of the severe drought in New Hampshire and most of New England that began in mid-August, according to a researcher with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week I was the comic relief for the annual meeting of the N.H. Joint Engineering Society, giving an hour-ish talk via Zoom about a few topics that have cropped up in Granite Geek over the years which I thought might interest a few folks: Benford’s Law...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Combining quantum mechanics and relativity remains the big unsolved problem in physics – it flummoxed Einstein, so I don’t feel too bad about my confusion. Anything that combines the two is intriguing. New research led by Alexander Smith, who is part...
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