Tyson's Blog Posts Tagged 'model' (2)

I remember cutting out topographical models as a student. I really hated it. It seemed like so much work for so little benefit. Looking back on those crude models I realized how useful they really were. Even if they didn't look so great, I was forced to intimately understand the characteristics of…

There’s a pretty interesting tradition that was common in many of my friends households growing up, childhood growth charts. They were each a little different, but they were almost always made out of wood, and tracked how much the child had grown in the previous year. I suppose their parents…