The shape of a letter is usually treated as a matter of convention, and to a large extent it is. But writing systems designed for a specific material carry that…
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There is a habit of treating zero as obvious, on the reasoning that nothing is a perfectly ordinary thing to have none of.
The difficulty is not the concept…
There is a small set of sounds that produce a physical reaction in nearly everybody who hears them — a wince, a shudder, a reflex to cover the ears —…
The useful question at any reservoir is why the wall is where it is, because that position was chosen for reasons of geology and geometry that determined everything else. Here…
Arriving by train differs from every other mode in one respect: you are deposited in a city centre, on foot, with your luggage, in a building that contains most of…
Every grain is built the same way: a protective outer layer, a starchy interior and a small oily part that would have become the plant. Everything below follows from which…