Articles Tagged with history

Twelve quarters

Published on March 30, 2021March 28, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Where the wind blows

A poetic phrase has an unexpected scientific source.

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Colors of the stars

Published on March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Poetic and precise

How do you describe a color?

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Alphabetical order

Published on March 2, 2021March 1, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

An historical mistake

We highlight an instance in which not knowing one’s history led to mistakes in astrophysics.

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Make a map

Published on February 9, 2021February 7, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Charts, surveys and catalogs

We notice the importance of what and where.

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The prepared mind

Published on February 2, 2021February 1, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Learning from an observation

What we see depends on what we’re looking for.

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Morse code

Published on January 5, 2021January 3, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

High-speed digital communication

The telegraph required a new way of writing messages.

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Four elements, four humors

Published on December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Before the revolution

We conclude that it can be useful to teach something that is actually wrong.

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An audio culture

Published on November 17, 2020November 16, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The book, the movie and the radio play

We ponder how the medium affects the story.

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A video culture?

Published on November 10, 2020November 9, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The way we communicate

Is the written word no longer important?

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Starting from here

Published on October 20, 2020October 19, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Using a simplistic idea

We consider a way to use something so simplified that it’s wrong.

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