Articles Tagged with science

Why teach errors?

Outdated, still in use

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

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Proof and re-proof

Testing the theory again

General Relativity passes another test of its predictions.  Why bother?

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How it’s done

Telescopes and databases

Astronomy changes.  So do the kind of people who become astronomers.

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The Sun, clouds and people

Levels of predictability

The recent solar eclipse demonstrates much more than astronomy.  (Image: one page of Guy Ottwell’s The Under-Standing of Eclipses, available here)

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The photographer, the painter and the scientist

Realism and creativity

Art and science are tied to reality in different ways, as are artists and scientists.

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