by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Steven Strogatz, a Cornell math professor and math communicator (I’m waiting for his much-praised book “Infinite Powers” about calculus to come out in paperback) had an interesting series of Tweets over the weekend that began: “I’ve long...
by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Tackling the biggest problems of the world today and in the future could benefit from technologies of the past. “This is back to the future,” is how Joe Short, vice president of Northern Forest Center, put it at the start of a conference Friday discussing mass timber,...
by David Brooks | Oct 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last November I had an item about vague thoughts of creating an orbital small launching facility at closed air bases in northern Maine, using small rockets to launch cubesats. As I said at the time, “More like Wallops Island, Virginia, than Cape...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Do you like data? Do you like data about demographics and economics and other topics that shape how the world works? Of course you do, Granite Geek fan. So UNH Carsey School of Public Policy has a treat for you: They’ve taken “What is New...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The September Science Cafe NH in Concord talked about the state’s options for expanding electric vehicles via charging and other options. It lasted two hours and, as Science Cafe is wont to do, the conversation covered lots of topics from battery chemistry to...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There are a ton of really horrible invasive weeds out there, but Japanese knotweed might be the horriblest. In the UK it has gotten so bad that you have trouble getting a mortgage if the plant is found within seven meters of your property line, partly because its...
Return to the Concord Monitor