by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A lot of art/science mashups aren’t terribly impressive. They’re often something along the lines of a statue that contains Erlenmeyer flasks, or a fractal picture, or a melody-free song called Quantum Uncertainty. The UNH Center for Acoustics Research and...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There are lots of colorful names for groups of birds – murder of crows, etc. – most of them unofficial and most of them with obscure etymologies. How about “asylum of loons”, one of the terms for a grouping of this usually solitary water bird?...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in favor of Portsmouth’s denial of an Airbnb permit. A couple wanted to rent out the house next to them, but the city said zoning wouldn’t allow it. Here’s my story in the Monitor. The ruling is the...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I visited Merrimack Station this week, in advance of Saturday protests against the biggest coal-fired power plant in the region (and soon in New England). The big takeaway is that that the plant hardly ever runs – roughly the equivalent of 23 days in all of 2018...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Probably the most famous mathematical work with a New Hampshire connection is the proof of the four-color theorem, done by Wolfgang Haken and Ken Appel in 1976. (Appel later moved to New Hampshire and became head of the mathematics department at UNH, so the Granite...
by David Brooks | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers (hi, mom!) know that I love culverts, those thousands of pipes/mini-bridges under that carry streams under New Hampshire roadways. They are the perfect symbol and example of the reality of dealing with climate change, which is why this blog has seen...
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