Editor's note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself.EVERY week a new issue of The Economist appears on news-stands (both actual and digital) and lands on doormats around the world.
Editor's note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself.MOST newspapers and magazines use bylines to identify the journalists who write their articles.
Editor's note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself.ALL writers at The Economist are anonymous.
Editor's note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself.SOME readers, particularly those used to the left-right split in most democratic legislatures, are bamboozled by The Economist's political stance.
1934 Appearance of the first issue of Brouwer's own international journal, entitled Compositio Mathematica.
The new printers, The Carlton Press, failed to keep to the agreed printing schedule, and produced poor quality work; there were also printers' strikes, and this disruption caused extended delays in the appearance of the seventh issue.
After February, May and August 1955, the December 1956 issue began a regular bimonthly sequence that was marred only by the appearance of a November 1959 issue between the August and December issues.
"It's an appearance-of-bias issue," Mr. Long said in a telephone interview this afternoon, referring to Justice Thomas.
That changed in 1971, when a tiny photo of a bonnet-clad piglet made an appearance on page 64 of the issue of January 30th.
A major shift in nearly all aspects of natural language processing began in the late 1980s and was virtually complete by the end of 1995: this was the shift to corpus-based, statistical approaches (signalled for instance by the appearance of two special issues on the subject by the quarterly Computational Linguistics in 1993).
