Articles Tagged with history

Professional writing

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and professional reading

Some writing is not what we’d expect.

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The danger of the best

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Unexpected effects of good reading

Some books don’t seem quite as good as we remember.

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Why keep old things?

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Collectors and others

There are two types of people who retain old technology.

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Putting pen to paper (II)

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The novelists’ instrument

We examine an incident in which new technology did not change literary genres.

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Providing proof

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If-then-therefore

Doing proofs in Geometry class is hard.  Teaching how to do them is harder.

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How big is the world?

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Measuring a cabbage-patch

“It’s a small world” is a cliché.  Can we measure how small?

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Putting pen to paper

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Writing changes, and doesn’t

We examine several literary genres.

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Why teach errors?

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Outdated, still in use

We look for reasons to teach things that aren’t true.

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Divisable numbers

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How many whats in a which?

In actual use, the decimal system is not always the best.

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A village in space

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Interstellar genetics

A recent paper contemplates a very long voyage.

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