Articles Tagged with astronomy

Reading the dial (III)

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Displaying the data

Communicating science can be difficult, even to and by scientists.

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The sky is gone (II)

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A long history

The stars have been getting harder to see for a long time now.

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The sky is gone

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And it’s not coming back

Something you didn’t know you had is going away.

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The inefficient astronomer

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Learning and relearning

We ponder an example of wasted time in science.

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A small tool

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One step beyond the eyes

We consider an anachronism.

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A simpler theory

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Measuring complications

A simple idea can become a complicated thing to implement.

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The courage of one’s calculations

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Knowledge and its uses

Knowing how to do something, and doing it, are not the same thing.

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Telescope economics

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Precision low-tech

We consider whether to build or buy.

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The languages of science

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Standardization and diversity

Does it matter what words go with the mathematics?

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Not quite constant

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Dealing with precession

We note some of the difficulties in writing historical fiction (among other things).

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