Getting to print

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Typesetting software

The hardest part of scientific research can be publishing it.

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Not just typos

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Wrong answers in the books

We’re puzzled by problems with certain books that should be authoritative.

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Better but harder

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Simple becomes difficult

We ponder how the same scientific task gets harder with time.

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Making paradoxers

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Deliberate deception

Paradoxers can be made, as well as born.

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Quick learners

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Following the syllabus

How quickly do we need to teach a subject?

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Monoglot music

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Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Updates

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Light and peppers

We report on things inevitable and unpredictable.

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Liquids in space?

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Chemical calculations

An offhand comment led to a set of hybrid calculations.

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Snoopy and the Red Baron

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Incongruity in retrospect

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

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Programmable (III)

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The right problem

Why do we only teach the easy problems?

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