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 18, 2016 | Blog
One of the advantages of having the same name as somebody else in your profession is that you’re pretty protected from random Google searches: Nobody’s going to find me amid the torrent of stuff from and about David Brooks of New York Times fame. But...
by David Brooks | Jan 18, 2016 | Blog
Dave Solomon’s weekly energy-related column in the Union-Leader points out that the state is trying to decide whether to change the way electric vehicles are charged: Electric car owners have complained that they are overpaying at EV stations that charge an...
by David Brooks | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog
It is not unusual for sewage systems that use anerobic digesters as part of the treatment process to use some of the resulting methane for heating or power production – Nashua is one city that does it. But this is a new one to me: A Colorado city processes it...
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