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East of the standard meridian, solar noon comes earlier. Yet even in Akashi, it does not always fall at 12:00. Separate the difference due to place from the difference due to date to untangle the relationship between clocks and the Sun.
Why is a book’s spine sometimes on the right and sometimes on the left? Follow the direction of the characters, the next line, and the next page, and the book’s shape connects to the order in which you read it.
In Meiji-era Japan, the day after the second of the twelfth month became January 1. Place the old and new calendars on the same timeline, and you can see what jumped ahead and what continued uninterrupted.
The “up to about 30%” quoted for error recovery does not refer to the area of the paper. Separate the information encoded in the black-and-white pattern from the markers that help a reader find it.
What does “light” describe? Comparing the labels of three soy sauces per 15 mL shows why color and salt content need to be considered separately.
You hear the same Japanese word, yet mark different days on your calendars. Dialect records help reveal a misunderstanding hidden inside an apparently clear arrangement.
Six divisions for daylight, and six for night. How did Japanese clocks keep time when the units stretched and shrank with the seasons?
Is a black hole's rumble a recording? Follow the process that translates observations into an audible form, and the choices behind a representation come into view.
From the 2015 discovery of bursting bubbles to the 2017 experiments with living bacteria. A pleasant smell became a question about the movement of matter.
Two regions have the same area on a sphere. Change only the projection to compare how they look on a flat surface.
There is more to the surprising number: each heart has a job.
Our familiar sky is made by sunlight and the very small molecules in the air.
The Moon does rotate. Its two motions are precisely in step.
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