by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
Three years ago a soft-spoken calculus lecturer at UNH named Yitang “Tom” Zhang suddenly became world famous, at least within the world of research mathematics, for releasing a major breakthrough in the twin-prime conjecture (which guesses that there are...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
If you need some noise to drown out the sound of the snowblower, you could do worse than to load your iPod with Wednesday’s recording of The Exchange, NHPR’s talk show, and hear podcaster/radio star Sam Evans-Brown and I talked with host Laura Knoy about...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
The population of New Hampshire grew very little last year, according to the latest estimates from the Census Bureau, although we’re doing much better than Vermont and Maine. State-by-state estimates released recently said New Hampshire had 1,334,795 people as of July...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2017 | Blog
It’s now obvious that the Russians didn’t hack into Burlington Electric, the power utility in northwest Vermont, despite an early Washington Post story claiming it. (The Post, which is a real rather than fake news organization, wrote a follow-up story...
by David Brooks | Dec 30, 2016 | Blog
By the time you read this, the first heavy storm of the winter will be on its way out to sea and you will have one question on your mind: How much snow did I get? I hate to break it to you, but if by “how much” you mean “how deep,” nobody really knows for sure....
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