Articles Tagged with social effects of technology

How big is your village?

History gets more distant

An unexpected genetic revolution started about 1850.

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Thermodynamics is unfair

Cooling is hard

Why did air conditioning appear so long after fire?

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Photography: the hard part

Keeping track

It’s still the same task, digital or film.  And it is still not done well, sometimes at all, by most photographers.

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Consider construction

The persistence of the mundane

We ponder some unexciting work.

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Transistors, candles and light bulbs

Simple or complicated

Which would you rather explain?

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The navigator’s watch

Combining instruments

Doing some things the old-fashioned way is getting difficult.

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The pot, the photograph and the on-line video

Following directions

Old cast iron and new social media.

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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 picture in your hand

Posters and the meeting

The effects of a social change are seen in the giveaways at a scientific meeting.

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Build or buy?

Your own instruments

A lesson in technology, economics and convenience.

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