by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
Three years ago a soft-spoken calculus lecturer at UNH named Yitang “Tom” Zhang suddenly became world famous, at least within the world of research mathematics, for releasing a major breakthrough in the twin-prime conjecture (which guesses that there are...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
If you need some noise to drown out the sound of the snowblower, you could do worse than to load your iPod with Wednesday’s recording of The Exchange, NHPR’s talk show, and hear podcaster/radio star Sam Evans-Brown and I talked with host Laura Knoy about...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
The population of New Hampshire grew very little last year, according to the latest estimates from the Census Bureau, although we’re doing much better than Vermont and Maine. State-by-state estimates released recently said New Hampshire had 1,334,795 people as of July...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Note: Subscribers to the GraniteGeek weekly newsletter saw this story yesterday. You can subscribe for free here. You probably heard the news Wednesday about a federal/private initiative to develop an Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute in Manchester, with...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Newsletter
There’s no Granite Geek Newsletter next week – I’ll be snowshoeing and skiing North of the Notches and no way I’m going online – so here’s a little something to help tide you over: this is the Granite Geek column that will run in...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Newsletter
There’s a proposal to release genetically modified mice on the island of Nantucket to stop the spread of Lyme disease, reports Stat, a publication of the Boston Globe: Esvelt hopes to reduce the prevalence of Lyme disease by focusing on the white-footed mouse,...