Small mistakes
We compare old and new examples of unforgiving calculations.
explanation
Learning the kingdoms
Domesticated plants
The earliest servant
The first plant pressed into human service is probably not the one you’re thinking of.
A difficult problem
A legacy
Unimportant history
Obscure biography
A book about someone we’d never heard of turns out to be unexpectedly interesting.
The student’s load
Getting quieter
A small triumph
We note an important advance in technology that has happened without fanfare.
The right textbook
The photographer’s intention
Photographs and images
Technology can make images much more expressive and creative than even a decade or two ago. Mostly, it hasn’t.