by David Brooks | Jan 22, 2016 | Blog
The Monitor’s new Ag & Eats blog explores a “permaculture” farm in Chichester, where agriculture and social activities mix and mingle: During the winter, the pigs and ducks, plus geese and chickens, all live in a shed together. The pigs provide...
by David Brooks | Jan 22, 2016 | Blog
A bitcoin vending machine (not an ATM) has been set up at Murphy’s Taproom in Manchester, reports Free Keene. A year or two ago I would have thought we were beyond being surprised by such announcements, since bitcoin machines were the hot new thing, but this...
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog
Hey, *you* try describing the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture on the radio.
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog
From US Fish and Wildlife Service: Over the past century, many shrublands and young forests across the Northeast have been cleared for development or have grown into mature forests. As this habitat has disappeared from much of the landscape, the populations of more...
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog
“An 1880 Maine insurrection could sink ranked-choice voting” – that’s the intriguing headline on this piece from the Bangor Daily News concerning efforts to install an alternative voting procedure in statewide races in Maine. As the name...
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...
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