by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The long-feared autumn rise in New Hampshire COVID-19 has started to arrive, as reflected in a deterioration of the Monitor’s weekly tracking – for the first time in months we are missing two of our goals – as well as the state’s concern that community-wide...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
It has long been known that the cheapest and cleanest unit of energy is the one you don’t need to use, and a group that includes the state’s utilities is rushing to put this into practice statewide despite the scheduling complications of COVID-19. “We were put on hold...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College gives annual awards for speculative fiction. Not quite as well known as the Hugos or Nebula awards but not bad. Here’s the story from Dartmouth News Service: Debut author Cadwell Turnbull won...
by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Great Britain lost more than 16,000 positive COVID-19 test results, apparently because they use an old version of Excel that doesn’t have enough rows or columns to handle the data. Australian mathematics comedian Matt Parker, a well-known spreadsheet fan, has...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
in the U.S. right now, dudes – I think that’s an appropriate term to use here – are more likely to pretend that COVID-19 isn’t a big problem than women are. That extremely non-surprising result, obvious to anybody who goes into any public area...
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