Articles for March 2017

Remembrance of things past

When learning doesn’t fade away

Our tutoring consultant has an encouraging experience with his own memory.

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A surfeit of features

No one uses them all

Digital cameras, like calculators, have an immense menu of features.  It’s certainly rare, and possibly unknown, for anyone to use them all.  Why have them, then?

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Why a forecast discussion?

More than numbers

Weather forecasts are much more reliable than they used to be, mostly thanks to more powerful computers.  Input from people is still important, though.

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The lovers’ lodestone

A prehistory of wireless telegraphy

It was much more difficult to stay in touch 300 years ago.  A literary magazine from that era has a suggestion for a surprisingly modern way to do it.

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