Articles Tagged with history

Making a drawing (I)

The importance of the rough sketch

Sometimes, the rougher the better.

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Beginning with a question mark

The written and the spoken word

We ask a question: how do you ask a question?

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The narrative imperative

Telling the story

We notice that novel-writing and movie-making are different from Physics and History.

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Professional writing

and professional reading

Some writing is not what we’d expect.

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The danger of the best

Unexpected effects of good reading

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

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Why keep old things?

Collectors and others

There are two types of people who retain old technology.

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Putting pen to paper (II)

The novelists’ instrument

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

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Providing proof

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?

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

Writing changes, and doesn’t

We examine several literary genres.

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