Articles Tagged with science

Old-fashioned astronomers (I)

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Arlo Landolt

The importance of calibration.

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The inefficient astronomer

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Learning and relearning

We ponder an example of wasted time in science.

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Fear of the dark

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What’s scary?

We ponder plastic skeletons and other seasonal paraphernalia.

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When there are two truths

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Aristotle vs. Ptolemy

We point out an uneasy tension beneath an apparent unity.

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The languages of science

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Standardization and diversity

Does it matter what words go with the mathematics?

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The prepared mind

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Learning from an observation

What we see depends on what we’re looking for.

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It used to be hard

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Now it’s easy

Are some things too easy to do nowadays?

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Mixing subjects

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Crossing boundaries

We put forward an idea for a college class that will probably never happen.

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Industrial science

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Gravity’s next step

We notice an area of science where theories are so numerous a system has been imposed to keep track.

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I made a mistake

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An unusual scientific paper

Science is generally self-correcting, but usually not in the same person.

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