Everything below comes from one thing: the axis the Earth spins on is not perpendicular to the plane it orbits in. Every seasonal phenomenon anywhere is a consequence of that…
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One set meant that watching was a collective activity requiring agreement, and that everybody in the household saw the same thing at the same time whether they had…
The distinction that organises the whole subject is between comparing and measuring. A balance compares; a scale measures a force. Almost every difference between weighing devices follows from which one…
The useful way to read any station is to work out which of two plans it is, then look at how the roof is held up. Those two facts explain…
The organising fact is that a plant has several parts, and if you consistently select for one of them getting bigger, you eventually get a vegetable that is mostly that…
There is a phrase that gets used dismissively — that something is just a placebo — and it carries an assumption worth examining.
The assumption is that a placebo response…