Articles Tagged with astronomy

Getting to print

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Typesetting software

The hardest part of scientific research can be publishing it.

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Better but harder

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Simple becomes difficult

We ponder how the same scientific task gets harder with time.

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Making paradoxers

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Deliberate deception

Paradoxers can be made, as well as born.

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Updates

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Light and peppers

We report on things inevitable and unpredictable.

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Liquids in space?

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Chemical calculations

An offhand comment led to a set of hybrid calculations.

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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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Take note

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From the archives

Our consultants review some old writings.

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The limits of the eye

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Ordering the planets

There are some things that the naked eye just can’t do.

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One’s own sky

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The kitchen as sundial

We notice that calibrated instruments are not always necessary.

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