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Making paradoxers

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Deliberate deception

Paradoxers can be made, as well as born.

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Quick learners

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Following the syllabus

How quickly do we need to teach a subject?

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Monoglot music

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Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Updates

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Light and peppers

We report on things inevitable and unpredictable.

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Snoopy and the Red Baron

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Incongruity in retrospect

We remember something that didn’t seem strange at the time, but does now.

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Programmable (III)

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The right problem

Why do we only teach the easy problems?

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Programmable (II)

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Victory of the geeks

We note one time when the computer-engineers won over the marketers.

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Programmable (I)

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But not programmed

Some capabilities are never used.  Well, hardly ever.

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What kind of scientist?

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Astronomers of different eras

We note that different kinds of people have become astronomers, depending on when they worked.

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The hodograph

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Dropped from the program

We encounter things that are no longer taught.

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