Articles Tagged with social effects of technology

Getting to print

Typesetting software

The hardest part of scientific research can be publishing it.

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Making paradoxers

Deliberate deception

Paradoxers can be made, as well as born.

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Monoglot music

Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Programmable (II)

Victory of the geeks

We note one time when the computer-engineers won over the marketers.

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What kind of scientist?

Astronomers of different eras

We note that different kinds of people have become astronomers, depending on when they worked.

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The hodograph

Dropped from the program

We encounter things that are no longer taught.

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The limits of the eye

Ordering the planets

There are some things that the naked eye just can’t do.

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Fresh-ground

Far and near

Technology and economics, fruit and spices, and a nutmeg-grater.

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Old-fashioned astronomers (III)

Publishing Roger Griffin

Where does an astronomer go to discuss his results?

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Distant cousins

The extended family

We make a count of our relations.

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