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The picture in your hand

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Posters and the meeting

The effects of a social change are seen in the giveaways at a scientific meeting.

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Working the meeting

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How to meet

When scientists get together, what do they do?

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Build or buy?

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Your own instruments

A lesson in technology, economics and convenience.

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A hands-on process

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Working manually

How much of your work is your own?

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Telling time

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Waiting for the kalends

How you tell time tells something about you.

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Cutting it short

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How is a poster like a sonnet?

Our astronomer struggles to fit into a limited space.

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A gathering of astronomers

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When scientists get together

Sociology, ecology, economics and linguistics in astronomy.

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Maps and apps

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In principle and in practice

Another way we may be inadvertently changing how we see the world.

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Looking at and looking through

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Ways of seeing

What you see depends on how you look.

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Learning and relearning

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Holes in one’s memory

Not everything we learn sticks.  This can be discouraging.

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