http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://mobile.boston.com/art/21//bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/28/warning_your_reality_is_out_of_date/?single=1 These slow-changing facts are what I term “mesofacts.” Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change. For example, if, as a baby boomer, you learned high school chemistry in 1970, and then, as we all are apt to do, did not take care to brush up on your chemistry periodically, you would not realize that there are 12 new elements in the Periodic Table. Over a tenth of the elements have… ]]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:14:00 -0700 http://mobile.boston.com/art/21//bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/02/28/warning_your_reality_is_out_of_date/?single=1