Articles Tagged with physics

More of the story

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Help from an old textbook

Knowing just a little more is sometimes helpful.

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Working from a snapshot

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Patient astronomers

People are rather ill-designed for astronomy.

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Old science fiction

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The trouble with predictions

It didn’t happen that way, but we enjoy the stories in spite of that.

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Making assumptions

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What’s reasonable?

We have to start somewhere.  Sometimes the exact place isn’t important.

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Solving the problem

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Standardized tests (again)

When does learning become rote?

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Numbering the stars (I)

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Big numbers

We look at answers to an obvious question.

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Destroying the world (almost)

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Science to serve the plot

We comment on a science-fiction novel in progress.

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Students return (II)

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Unintended consequences

We find, again, that the message we thought we sent is not always what was received.

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Ghosts of future theories

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Magnetic monopoles

We know a great deal about things that may not exist.

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Why teach errors?

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Outdated, still in use

We look for reasons to teach things that aren’t true.

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