by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The non-profit Mount Washington Observatory posted this photo online today, and meteorologists are freaking out. Look at that cloud – just LOOK at it! Their explanation: ” A KH-lenticular, or Kelvin-Helmholtz wave cloud was spotted around 7 AM. These form...
by David Brooks | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth news has an interesting piece about a mathematics professor, Feng Fu, who is trying to develop a mathematics of altruism: “how to promote cooperation in the most general sense, using very theoretical mathematical models to look at how to prompt people...
by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
In a follow-up to my post yesterday about proposed laws in New Hampshire keeping firms from selling our cell-phone location data without our permission, comes news from Maine that they don’t think that’s a good idea. From the Portland Press-Herald story:...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the painful ironies of today’s world – which seems to stab us with a new painful irony every week or two – is the way we have flipped George Orwell’s Big Brother on its head. The problem isn’t Them secretly watching Us, as “1984” predicted. The problem is Us...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Airline Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), a national organization for private pilots, has announced that the Alton Bay ice runway on Lake Winnipesaukee will not be used this year – the ice never got thick enough. Here’s the announcement....
by David Brooks | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Small mammals such as mice and chipmunks who are not picky eaters play a more important role than previously known in dispersing the spores of wild mushrooms and truffles, according to new research from the New...