by David Brooks | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth news service: For the second consecutive year, a team of Dartmouth engineering students has been named a finalist in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge. For this year’s competition, NASA sought...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The publisher of a New Hampshire science-fiction magazine is rooting for the success of a show on Apple’s new streaming-video service, and for admittedly selfish reasons. “We’re primarily hoping for a renewal so we can continue to collect fees and support the...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Most solar power in New England is, like the PV panels on my roof, “behind the meter”. That means the production is not visible to ISO-NE, the folks who run our six-state power grid, unlike every-five-minute electricity production from Seabrook Station or...
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:...