explanation

Push or pull?

Moving information

How do you decide what you need to know?

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Software and film

An analogy with analog

Trying out a smartphone app suggests similarities.

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Talk about the weather

Altostratus and a falling barometer

Why would you do your own weather forecasting?

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Getting to print

Typesetting software

The hardest part of scientific research can be publishing it.

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Not just typos

Wrong answers in the books

We’re puzzled by problems with certain books that should be authoritative.

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Better but harder

Simple becomes difficult

We ponder how the same scientific task gets harder with time.

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Making paradoxers

Deliberate deception

Paradoxers can be made, as well as born.

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Quick learners

Following the syllabus

How quickly do we need to teach a subject?

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Monoglot music

Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Updates

Light and peppers

We report on things inevitable and unpredictable.

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