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by Alan Boss · 3 Feb 2009 · 221pp · 61,146 words
question of how microscopic life originates on habitable planets, much less the intelligent life of Fermi’s Paradox, but has instead taken the position that “if you build it, they will come.” That is, if habitable worlds are common, what is to prevent their hosting the evolution of some sort of primitive life forms over their billions
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by Amy Korst · 26 Dec 2012 · 347pp · 88,114 words
much more commercial model. “We don’t turn it a lot,” he says. “We have worms [in the pile], but we didn’t introduce them. If you build it, they will come.” Once your pile is ready to go, you start filling it with food scraps. If you’re brand new to composting, I’d recommend you
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by Barry Schwartz · 31 Aug 2015 · 86pp · 27,453 words
in a way that strengthens the theories. You build that path and then force people to walk on it, perhaps by roping off the grass. “If you build it, they will come.” This is the mantra that the main character in the movie Field of Dreams keeps hearing as he turns his farmland into a baseball park
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a battle between these metaphors. The “watch where they walk, then pave it” metaphor argues that the empirical data shape the theories people develop. The “if you build it, they will come” metaphor argues that theories shape data. I will attempt to defend the second metaphor. The battle here is one that has been going on in
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by Charles R. Morris · 1 Jan 2012 · 456pp · 123,534 words
and manage their far-flung freights and rolling stock. There were other, less obvious symbioses. The western railroads were typically built far ahead of traffic—“If You Build It, They Will Come.” The roads benefited from both state and federal land grants in wide swaths on both sides of their tracks. In order to create future freights
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by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words
, the number of permits declined by 40 percent over a twenty-year period. The inverse has proven true in Houston. Following the Field of Dreams “if you build it, they will come” model, Houston issues permits for almost three times the number of housing units per capita as New York City. One beneficial aspect of such prolific
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson · 1 Jul 2018 · 317pp · 79,633 words
had always considered rare, with the thrumming multitudes around us. Mark’s bee beds, and those of his alfalfa-growing neighbors, embodied the cultural meme “If you build it, they will come.” Covering a total of more than 300 acres (120 hectares), those scattered beds provided prime habitat to an estimated 18 million to 25 million nesting
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of sight quickly, a handy trait in places where collecting might not be welcomed. Entomologists have been known to call them “National Park Specials.” 12 “If you build it, they will come”: This common expression is a slight misquote from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, which featured an Iowa farmer constructing a baseball diamond in
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by Heather Lauer · 1 May 2009 · 226pp · 52,069 words
they cleaned up an outbuilding to use for producing their hams, and operated their business from the space for about ten years. Thus proving that if you build it, they will come. The Scotts’ ham business became increasingly popular and after a while some of their customers started asking for bacon. “We had built a building by
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by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (New York: Routledge, 1996). 128. Wiig, “Incentivized Urbanization in Philadelphia,” 112. 129. Jack Brown, “If You Build It, They Will Come: The Role of Individuals in the Emergence of Canary Wharf, 1985–1987,” London Journal 42, no. 1 (2017): 71. 130. Richard Disney and Guannan Luo
China's Superbank
by Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe · 26 Sep 2012
-high 1 World Trade Center currently under construction in the real Manhattan. Tianjin officials are employing the philosophy of the 1989 movie, Field of Dreams: If you build it, they will come. Tianjin isn’t headquarters to a world-class bank, let alone a leading Chinese bank that could occupy those offices, as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and
Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee · 23 May 2016 · 383pp · 81,118 words
, and that YouTube eliminated a significant friction. As we’ve noted before, in our experience, the biggest mistake platform entrepreneurs make is to embrace the “if you build it, they will come” fallacy. No, they won’t, unless the platform solves a big problem for participants and unless the entrepreneur cracks the chicken-and-egg problem. Without
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, 191 HD-DVD platform, 26–27 Hengii Bearing Factory, 59 Hoist magazine, 124–125 HourlyNerd, 105 HTML, 42 Hurley, Chad, 69–70. See also YouTube “if you build it, they will come” fallacy, 152 ignition, 35–37, 68, 69–83 Apple Pay and, 159–164 assessment for, 151, 153 coordination problem and, 70–73 driving traffic and
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