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Writing

Essays on how research should be done, newest first.

  • Reading lamps lit under the dark dome of a round reading room, its shelves of books behind them

    Start from the record

    Why our work begins with filings, statistics and statements as they stood at the time, and not with what was said about them afterwards.

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  • A drawer of index cards pulled out of a wooden card catalogue at the Library of Congress

    Every figure needs its source

    A number without a source cannot be checked. What a good source line carries, and what it lets a reader do.

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  • Stars tracing circles through a night of exposures over a telescope dome at La Silla Observatory in Chile, the dome lit red

    Coming back to a conclusion

    Why each piece says what would change our minds, and why we return to our conclusions once events have had their say.

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