Articles Tagged with social trends

Language change

The long and short of it

We ponder an old textbook.

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Cyborg students

Mechanical aids

When we test students today, what do we test?

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Your technological age

Old habits

How much new technology have you absorbed?

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Kids today

Effects of technology

A graduation party starts us thinking about teenagers.

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Good or new?

Worthwhile art

We discuss something beyond our formal qualifications.

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Monoglot music

Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Snoopy and the Red Baron

Incongruity in retrospect

We remember something that didn’t seem strange at the time, but does now.

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This is my country

non-nations

We consider alternatives to the nation-state.

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Stories in the air (I)

The definitive version

There are some stories you just know.  How?

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Old-fashioned astronomers (I)

Arlo Landolt

The importance of calibration.

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