Our Latin Thing

Doing the right thing for our patients with disabilities.

Why the Real Thing Is Essential for Telling Our Stories

Museum Victoria possesses the only intact first generation electronic stored program computer left in the world. Real things, like CSIRAC, are entry portals to a past era. Along with contemporary documents and records, they are the closest we can get to time travel. They complement historical records. Historical records are not substitutes for the real thing, neither are replicas or facsimiles....

Wonderful Thing

W ith the increased dependence on networks and the near ubiquitous availability of the Internet, there is a new paradigm in place for the proliferation of spyware, viruses, and other malware. In fact, much attention has been given to spyware in popular literature with reports from multiple sources indicating that spyware has perhaps reached 90% home user PCs [2]. There is reason to believe this...

When is one thing equal to some other thing?

One can’t do mathematics for more than ten minutes without grappling, in some way or other, with the slippery notion of equality. Slippery, because the way in which objects are presented to us hardly ever, perhaps never, immediately tells us–without further commentary–when two of them are to be considered equal. We even see this, for example, if we try to define real numbers as decimals, and th...

The Impossible Thing

W hat is it?,” Sierra Rodriguez asked her older brother. “You’ll have to guess,” Billy answered. Sierra looked up at the object that was hanging —almost as if levitating —from two crisscrossed cables in the barn. “Does it y?” she asked. “Nope. It lights up.” “So you mean it’s just a light,” she said, glaring at her brother. “What’s so special about—” “It’s not just a light.” Billy began moving ...