Articles Tagged with history

A philosophical essay

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Many topics

A mathematical essay turns out to have much more than mathematics in it.

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Christmas cards (II)

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Chronicles

Including the unimportant is important.

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Learning the kingdoms

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Classifying life

How do you go about organizing organisms?

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Domesticated plants

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The earliest servant

The first plant pressed into human service is probably not the one you’re thinking of.

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A legacy

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Lessons learned

We ponder what we want to leave behind.

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Unimportant history

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Obscure biography

A book about someone we’d never heard of turns out to be unexpectedly interesting.

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Getting quieter

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A small triumph

We note an important advance in technology that has happened without fanfare.

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Language change

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The long and short of it

We ponder an old textbook.

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Prepositions and infinitives

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A difficult translation

English is a very unusual language.

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Long reads

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An unfair advantage

How many people read a thousand-page book?

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