Asking the questions
Making a test can be harder than taking it.
Articles Tagged with physics
How it’s done
Telescopes and databases
Astronomy changes. So do the kind of people who become astronomers.
A gathering of astronomers
Several things at once
Multiplexed astronomy
An example of answering several questions at once, by doing several kinds of observation at once.
Sometimes the answer is no
When finding nothing is something
In science, coming up with the answer is often the easy part.
A grand memory for forgetting
Learning in compartments
There is so much to take in that we divide up our task subject by subject, rarely allowing something we’ve learned in one class (or other environment) to leak over into another. This is not, in general, a good thing.
Ideal lies
Why learn something that isn’t true?
As we progress in school, the lessons get more difficult and complicated. Sometimes they’re difficult because we have to unlearn things.
On textbooks
Learning and re-learning
Textbooks are to learn from, of course. But who is doing the learning, and when?