by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
Tomorrow night (March 16) Science Cafe Nashua will be talking about Zika, the mosquito-borne virus and related disease, and how New Hampshire should see this threat, plan for its possible arrival and what we should know about the way global changes are impacting...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
Ninety years ago today, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from a farm owned by a cousin near Worcester, Mass. (He was born in Worcester and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.) Today that field is the Pakachoag Golf Course, and I bet the jokes about...
by David Brooks | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
Today, as you probably know, is the pi-est of pi days in American: 3.14.16, or pi rounded to four decimal points. I say in America because much of the world writes dates as day-month-year instead of month-day-year, so for them it’s 14.3.16 – not too...
by David Brooks | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog
This spring, National Grid will launch a new online marketplace that allows customers in Rhode Island to shop for solar and receive an incentive for improving energy efficiency at the same time. That’s the word from GreentechMedia (article is here): Customers...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2016 | Blog
Google’s AI defeated the world’s champion in the east Asian board game of Go. It beat him pretty soundly, too, and hehas a rank of 9 Dan, which is mind-bogglingly high. “Deep learning is killing every problem in AI.” Humanity is doomed. Go is a...
by David Brooks | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog
ConcordTV, the city’s community channel, has uploaded an edited, half-hour version of the most recent Science Cafe Concord, discussing CRISPR and the revolution in gene editing. You can check it out here. Don’t forget, the next Science Cafe NH in Nashua...
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