Articles Tagged with history

Old methods

Published on February 11, 2025February 10, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

It’s getting harder

Some long-established habits are getting difficult to maintain.

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Specialization

Published on January 7, 2025January 5, 2025 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Comparative advantage

How much should you be able to do, and how well?

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Imperfect texts

Published on December 31, 2024December 29, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Scholarship

How do you approach documents that you know are wrong?

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A philosophical essay

Published on December 17, 2024December 16, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Many topics

A mathematical essay turns out to have much more than mathematics in it.

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Christmas cards (II)

Published on December 10, 2024December 8, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Chronicles

Including the unimportant is important.

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Learning the kingdoms

Published on October 15, 2024October 14, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Classifying life

How do you go about organizing organisms?

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Domesticated plants

Published on October 6, 2024October 6, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The earliest servant

The first plant pressed into human service is probably not the one you’re thinking of.

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A legacy

Published on September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Lessons learned

We ponder what we want to leave behind.

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Unimportant history

Published on September 17, 2024September 16, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Obscure biography

A book about someone we’d never heard of turns out to be unexpectedly interesting.

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Getting quieter

Published on September 3, 2024September 1, 2024 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

A small triumph

We note an important advance in technology that has happened without fanfare.

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