by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
If you missed the inaugural Science Cafe Concord last week, take heart: ConcordTV will air a distilled version of the two-hour discussion on its public channel, Comcast Channel 22. The 28-minute broadcast version of the event will air Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | Blog
The largest prime number ever found has been confirmed – it’s 2 multiplied by itself 74,107,18 times, minus one (in other words, it’s a Mersenne Prime) and it has 22,338,618 digits. It was discovered as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | Blog
Approval voting is the simplest form of alternative voting procedures – basically, it would let voters chose more than one candidate when more than one was running for a single office, as in the current GOP presidential primary. The choices wouldn’t be...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2016 | Blog
And in today’s depressing news, the tick species that carries the virus which causes Lyme disease is now found in nearly half the counties in the lower 48, “a much broader swath than was seen in the late 1990s.” Read the story here from the National...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
New Hampshire has more connections to modern mathematics research than you might think – Google the names John Kemeny, Ken Appel and Yitang “Tom” Zhang for a start – but here’s a link that is particularly surprising: Since last summer, the richest math prize in the...
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