Articles Tagged with astronomy

New books and old

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Adding and subtracting

We have too many books, but sometimes we add more.

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Moonset, Moonrise

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Signs in the sky

Was it a long day, or a long night?

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People are different

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Visual photometry

Human eyes are not the same as electronic detectors.

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Eclipse planning

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Choosing one’s data

We contemplate activity during a very short time span.

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Rewriting the textbooks

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When, and why

We take a tired cliché seriously.

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Big Bang vs. Steady State

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A misremembered episode

The Big Bang won.  But not the way it’s normally presented.

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Has it been done?

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The literature search

We describe a necessary but sometimes tedious step in scientific research.

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A prestigious journal

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More on science publishing

How did it get this way?

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Beware 2038!

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Numbers and the sky

We describe a year when the rules don’t work.

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Science and economics

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Publishing and paying

Does it make sense?

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