by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Newsletter
It may be an urban legend that sewer systems get overwhelmed during Super Bowl commercial breaks when everybody rushes to the bathroom, but you can definitely see football mania on New England’s power grid. “The Super Bowl load curve shows an uptick in demand that...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The father-son team of mathematician/artists Erik Demaine (famous for his mathematical origami) and Martin Demaine will give a talk and hands-on presentation at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, in...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire House of Representatives has supported a bill that says New Hampshire will shift to the Atlantic Time Zone, dumping daylight savings, if Massachusetts does it first. Here is the Union-Leader story. I reported on this bill a couple of weeks ago and...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Abstract mathematics is as removed from grubby politics as you can get, but a fascinating summer course organized by a research mathematician at Tufts University is trying to bridge the gap. The five-day course set for August is titled “Geometry of...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The geekiest bill before the New Hampshire legislature this year has to be HB320, which would take the process of redistricting (redrawing boundaries for legislators and senators) away from humans and give it to optimization software in an attempt to avoid the...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are technical reasons many shooters like the P320 from Sig Sauer in Newington, which won an Army contract that could be worth half a billion dollars. It doesn’t have an external hammer like the P229R and the Beretta M9, the handgun that it replaces for the Army,...