Articles Tagged with history

A guide for the universe

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Too much to deal with

Do you need help to contemplate the universe?

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Push or pull?

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Moving information

How do you decide what you need to know?

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Not just typos

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Wrong answers in the books

We’re puzzled by problems with certain books that should be authoritative.

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Better but harder

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Simple becomes difficult

We ponder how the same scientific task gets harder with time.

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Monoglot music

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Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Snoopy and the Red Baron

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Incongruity in retrospect

We remember something that didn’t seem strange at the time, but does now.

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Programmable (II)

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Victory of the geeks

We note one time when the computer-engineers won over the marketers.

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What kind of scientist?

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Astronomers of different eras

We note that different kinds of people have become astronomers, depending on when they worked.

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The limits of the eye

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Ordering the planets

There are some things that the naked eye just can’t do.

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This is my country

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non-nations

We consider alternatives to the nation-state.

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