by David Brooks | May 21, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Although in my academic career I took three or four (depending on how you count them) courses built around calculus, I have come to believe that we should downplay calculus in high school math in favor of statistics and other data-related topics, which are of more...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe New Hampshire just celebrated its seventh anniversary – seven! holy cow – with its regular monthly conversations in Nashua and Concord. In Concord, where I moderate, the topic was “reinventing recycling” and the conversation was...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2018 | Newsletter
I am still in search of the oldest continuously operating solar panel in New Hampshire. I have written about what I think is the oldest grid-tied system in the state, which dates to 1993, but I bet there are non-grid-tied panels on houses or barns or cabins around the...
by David Brooks | May 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Oracle made a nice time lapse of Manchester Millyard’s rooftop Dyn sign being replaced by a sign for Oracle, which bought Dyne in 2016. The music may not be to everybody’s taste – but then, what music is? You can watch it here.
by David Brooks | May 15, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I was perusing a blog by a group called the Center for Land Use Interpretation that had an incredibly detailed description of the US-Canada border in Maine and New Hampshire (you can read it here), I found the above photo of a small monument at the border crossing in...
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