Measuring a cabbage-patch
“It’s a small world” is a cliché. Can we measure how small?
Articles Tagged with navigation
Celestial navigation
Making mistakes
The navigator’s watch
Maps and apps
In principle and in practice
Another way we may be inadvertently changing how we see the world.
A modern irritation
Smartphones by campfire light
An incongruity of technologies
One of our consultants has an interesting device for camping or possibly a disaster situation. On closer examination it appeared to us that it hadn’t been quite thought through. Then we examined it more closely still.
It’s alarming
Many things want our attention. They can’t all have it
Life always seems to get louder and more insistent. There are reasons for this, though it’s not a good trend.
The radio and the epee tip
The strange endurance of obsolescence
Why do some things keep on being used when an up-to-date replacement is clearly much better?
When science is an art
The experimentalist’s skill
Some scientists have an unusual skill for extracting precise data from their instruments. Sometimes this leads others to question their results.