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Is this always true?

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Absolute truths

Some questions are very difficult to answer, even if you know the answer.

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Ghosts of future theories

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Magnetic monopoles

We know a great deal about things that may not exist.

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A new type of paradoxer

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Collective individuals

Has the internet made possible a new form of anti-science?

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Searching vs. finding

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What are you looking for?

It’s harder when you don’t know, but can be more rewarding.

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It doesn’t look right

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Finding mistakes

Our tutor ponders techniques he employs unconsciously.

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Why keep old things?

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Collectors and others

There are two types of people who retain old technology.

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Putting pen to paper (II)

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The novelists’ instrument

We examine an incident in which new technology did not change literary genres.

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Providing proof

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If-then-therefore

Doing proofs in Geometry class is hard.  Teaching how to do them is harder.

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How big is the world?

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Measuring a cabbage-patch

“It’s a small world” is a cliché.  Can we measure how small?

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Putting pen to paper

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Writing changes, and doesn’t

We examine several literary genres.

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