Articles Tagged with history

The synthesis project

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Ways of being intelligent

We present an idea that won’t work.

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Working from a snapshot

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Patient astronomers

People are rather ill-designed for astronomy.

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Greek tragedy

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Retained in translation

What comes across, and doesn’t, when we change languages.

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Old science fiction

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The trouble with predictions

It didn’t happen that way, but we enjoy the stories in spite of that.

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How much memory?

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Knowing vs. looking it up

Memorization is not the same as learning.  Still, it has its uses.

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At the fair

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Art and historical economics

We try to place a pleasant weekend in context.

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Searching for a word

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At the source

There are many things we should already have read.  Sometimes we get around to reading them.

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Winding an armature

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Too much information

We encounter an example of a very modern problem.

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A long time

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Changes

What is “permanent” depends on your point of view.

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Modern human adaptations

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Changes in the design

The world changes.  Do we?

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