by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
The Block Island wind project in Rhode Island is small by offshore wind standards – 30 megawatts, or about twice the peak output of the Amoskeag hydropower dam in Manchester but only about 3 percent of the peak output of Seabrook Station – but it will be...
by David Brooks | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
Virtual Beach is an EPA-developed software package that correlates various environmental factors to make predictions about E. coli outbreaks in seawater. New Hampshire is using it and testing automated buoys on two lakes to see if we can better predict outbreaks in...
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...
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