Your technological age

Old habits

How much new technology have you absorbed?

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Rewriting the textbooks

When, and why

We take a tired cliché seriously.

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Rereading

and relearning

We go back to some old textbooks.

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Arguing with Montaigne

Dealing with great writers

We consider how to treat the first essayist.

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History and the ship

Combining many things

We present another way to teach history.

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A simpler theory (II)

Writing down the equation

We notice how mathematical notation affects scientific progress.

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The underlying lesson

What’s being learned

We notice that what we learn is not always what’s being taught.

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The journalist-novelist

Are they extinct?

We consider a particular type of author, which may no longer exist.

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Big Bang vs. Steady State

A misremembered episode

The Big Bang won.  But not the way it’s normally presented.

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Kids today

Effects of technology

A graduation party starts us thinking about teenagers.

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