In principle and in practice
Another way we may be inadvertently changing how we see the world.
Maps and apps
Articles Tagged with history
The past in my pocket
Thruppence and history
Paying with physical money, especially pocket change, is going away. That will make future historians’ work harder.
Human limitations
Relative paradoxes
A note on the sociology of science
A recent article on one of the great scientists in the field of General Relativity prompted our astronomer to reflect on stereotypes in science, and how sometimes they can be very wrong.
Junk mail
Making things easy
New technology often makes a task much easier to do. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s done better.
School’s out
The ancestral line
Genealogy and history
Some people put tremendous effort into extending and filling in their family trees. In the end, what purpose does it serve?
An unlikely number
The lovers’ lodestone
A prehistory of wireless telegraphy
It was much more difficult to stay in touch 300 years ago. A literary magazine from that era has a suggestion for a surprisingly modern way to do it.
Reading the manuscript
Why handwriting?
Communication in writing nowadays is almost exclusively done in type. Why, then, should anyone care about being able to write legibly?