Articles Tagged with social effects of technology

Celestial navigation

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Knowing where you are

You can get turn-by-turn directions.  What more do you need?

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Making mistakes

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Is punishing mistakes a mistake?

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A village in space

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Interstellar genetics

A recent paper contemplates a very long voyage.

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How big is your village?

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History gets more distant

An unexpected genetic revolution started about 1850.

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Thermodynamics is unfair

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Cooling is hard

Why did air conditioning appear so long after fire?

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Photography: the hard part

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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

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The persistence of the mundane

We ponder some unexciting work.

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Transistors, candles and light bulbs

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Simple or complicated

Which would you rather explain?

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The navigator’s watch

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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

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Following directions

Old cast iron and new social media.

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