Articles Tagged with history

A stone in the sidewalk (II)

Published on December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Repurposed art

We muse on something outside of our area of expertise.

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A stone in the sidewalk (I)

Published on December 10, 2019December 8, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Round, grooved and underfoot

Why is this strange object in the Alexandria sidewalk?

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The synthesis project

Published on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Ways of being intelligent

We present an idea that won’t work.

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Working from a snapshot

Published on November 19, 2019November 18, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Patient astronomers

People are rather ill-designed for astronomy.

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Greek tragedy

Published on November 12, 2019November 10, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Retained in translation

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

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Old science fiction

Published on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

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?

Published on October 8, 2019October 6, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Knowing vs. looking it up

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

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At the fair

Published on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Art and historical economics

We try to place a pleasant weekend in context.

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Searching for a word

Published on September 24, 2019September 20, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

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

Published on September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Too much information

We encounter an example of a very modern problem.

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