by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Portland, Maine, and Manchester, N.H., don’t have as much of a rivalry as they should. Both are the biggest cities in their similarly-sized state (both are “queen cities”, the term for a state’s biggest city that isn’t the capital), and...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s been a very long time since I was in college – cue jokes about papyrus scrolls and how math class was easier then because only 8 numerals had been invented – but I still remember how annoying it was to shell out big bucks for the “new...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The concept of mathematical beauty fascinates me – and lots of other people, as the long wikipedia article demonstrates – because it’s such a mix of opposites, the very quantifiable with the very non-quantifiable. There’s no question that some...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I think I’m going to have a Science Cafe NH later this year on the topic of building materials and carbon sequestration. I suspect most of it will cover modern lumber technology like cross-laminated timber, since we have so many trees, but I’d like to find...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2019 | Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: Peter Winkler, the William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, has been named the Second Distinguished Chair for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) in New York. But you...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s not easy to tell the age of a wild animal. That’s why New Hampshire sends 125 bobcat canines, 500 deer incisors, 100 moose incisors and 800 bear premolars to a really funky lab in Montana every year. Yes, you want to know more, which is why you will...
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