by David Brooks | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog
Quora, a sort of wikipedia of question-and-answer sessions, has an excellent discussion about what it’s like to work in advanced mathematics. You should read it all here. A few tidbits* to whet your appetite: . Mathematicians don’t really care about...
by David Brooks | Aug 17, 2016 | Blog
The Chinese and Russian economies are weak, so people there have stopped buying as much fur – which means that the price of a beaver pelt has fallen from the mid-40-dollars to barely 10 bucks. As any good capitalist would predict, this means fewer people are...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog
My Monitor column today looks at why some sources say New Hampshire’s ocean coastline is 18 miles long, some say it’s 13 miles, some say it’s 235 miles, and why people who know how to pronounce Benoit Mandelbrot say the whole discussion is pretty...
by David Brooks | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog
Some recent patents issued in New Hampshire, from Targeted News Service: Standex International of Salem has been assigned a patent (9,398,645) developed by Terry Gray of McKinney, Texas, for “current detecting and switching apparatus.” The patent application was filed...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2016 | Blog
Take THAT you crummy digital-native millenials: A survey says that older workers use more and different types of technology in the workplace than those darn kids who won’t get off my lawn, and also find it less stressful. From the story by CIO.com: Cloud storage...
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