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2,723 concepts

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Wiener process — 17 books
first published 14 Apr 2001
stochastic process generalizing Brownian motion
+11
inflation targeting — 114 books
first published 27 Mar 2001
+108
Wolfgang Streeck — 34 books
first published 27 Mar 2001
German economic sociologist
+28
Great Man theory — 33 books
first published 1 Mar 2001 added 14 Dec 2025
theory that history is shaped primarily by extraordinary individuals
+27
object permanence — 21 books
first published 1 Mar 2001 added 5 Nov 2023
+15
semantic web — 79 books
first published 26 Feb 2001
an extension of the World Wide Web that allows data to be interconnected and reused across applications, enterprises, and communities.
+73
P vs NP — 6 books
first published 26 Feb 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
unsolved problem in computer science about time complexity
peer-to-peer model — 17 books
first published 26 Feb 2001 added 24 May 2017
type of decentralized and distributed network architecture
+11
personalized medicine — 97 books
first published 15 Feb 2001 added 29 Dec 2016
+91
Big Mac Index — 17 books
first published 15 Feb 2001 added 4 Mar 2024
informal way of measuring the purchasing power of two currencies
+11
George Church — 64 books
first published 15 Feb 2001 added 26 Jun 2024
geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist
person
+58
Larry Wall — 35 books
first published 15 Feb 2001 added 16 Feb 2017
American computer programmer and author
person
+29
more computing power than Apollo — 13 books
first published 15 Feb 2001
+7
SETI@home — 38 books
first published 15 Feb 2001
+32
bioinformatics — 119 books
first published 15 Feb 2001
+113
bash_history — 14 books
first published 15 Feb 2001
a file that stores the command line history in Unix and Unix-like operating systems
+8
remote working — 136 books
first published 15 Feb 2001
+130
everything is a file — 4 books
first published 15 Feb 2001 added 24 Jan 2024
defining feature of Unix, and its derivatives
Carrington event — 14 books
first published 1 Feb 2001 added 1 Mar 2017
a solar storm in 1859 that was the most powerful geomagnetic storm on record. It caused widespread electrical disruptions and is used as a benchmark for potential future events.
+8
Abraham Wald — 29 books
first published 15 Jan 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
Hungarian mathematician, contributions to decision theory and statistical quality control
+23
streetcar suburb — 31 books
first published 15 Jan 2001 added 20 Aug 2022
residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation
+25
decarbonisation — 160 books
first published 10 Jan 2001
+154
Medieval Warm Period — 20 books
first published 10 Jan 2001 added 25 Sep 2023
time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region lasting from c. 950 to c. 1250
+14
Anthropocene — 177 books
first published 10 Jan 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
informal geologic chronological term
+171
climate change refugee — 16 books
first published 10 Jan 2001 added 15 Apr 2022
people forced to leave their home region due to the global warming changing their local environment
+10
California energy crisis — 12 books
first published 2 Jan 2001 added 26 Oct 2021
energy crisis in 2000–01 in California
+6
motion control photography — 1 books
first published 2 Jan 2001 added 23 Oct 2023
a technique used in photography and cinematography that allows precise control of, and optionally also allows repetition of, camera movements
imposter syndrome — 57 books
first published 2 Jan 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
a psychological pattern where an individual doubts their skills or accomplishments and has a persistent fear of being exposed as a 'fraud'
+51
rolling blackouts — 54 books
first published 2 Jan 2001 added 9 Dec 2022
album by The Go! Team
+48
managed futures — 43 books
first published 2001 added 1 Nov 2021
+37
Corrections Corporation of America — 20 books
first published 2001 added 26 Feb 2017
US prison-operating company
+14
peak oil — 158 books
first published 2001
+152
single-payer health — 57 books
first published 2001
+51
Mark Shuttleworth — 17 books
first published 2001 added 16 Feb 2017
South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station
+11
shared worldview — 14 books
first published 2001 added 3 Apr 2018
+8
Adam Curtis — 38 books
first published 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
British filmmaker, focuses on socio-political issues
+32
Project for a New American Century — 17 books
first published 2001 added 11 Mar 2017
former American neoconservative think tank
+11
carbon tax — 272 books
first published 2001 added 25 Sep 2023
+266
Dennis Tito — 21 books
first published 2001 added 11 Nov 2021
an American engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip to the International Space Station.
+15
Peoples Temple — 15 books
first published 2001 added 16 Nov 2021
+9
eurozone crisis — 149 books
first published 2001
multi-year debt crisis in multiple EU countries since late 2009
+143
Doha Development Round — 58 books
first published 2001
international trade negotiations
+52
equity risk premium — 50 books
first published 2001 added 11 Aug 2023
the excess return that investing in the stock market is expected to provide over a risk-free rate
+44
Jon Ronson — 36 books
first published 2001 added 16 Aug 2023
British journalist and documentary filmmaker
+30
banks create money — 53 books
first published 2001
the concept that banks create money through lending beyond their deposits
+47
statistical arbitrage — 56 books
first published 2001
Class of short-term trading strategies involving diverse portfolios and data mining
+50
Paradox of Choice — 82 books
first published 2001 added 5 Oct 2023
book by Barry Schwartz
+76
Mark Spitznagel — 9 books
first published 2001 added 5 Aug 2023
American businessman
+3
global supply chain — 271 books
first published 2001
+265
availability heuristic — 68 books
first published 2001
+62
Andrew Cuomo — 123 books
first published 2001 added 20 Aug 2024 person politician COVID-19 pandemic
+117
Dalí's melting clocks — 6 books
first published 2001 added 28 Feb 2024
precision agriculture — 34 books
first published 18 Dec 2000
the use of technology for optimizing field-level management in farming practices
+28
Haber-Bosch Process — 47 books
first published 18 Dec 2000
Artificial nitrogen fixation process which is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia nowadays
+41
duck typing — 29 books
first published 15 Dec 2000 added 2 Jun 2022
style of dynamic, structural typing with lazy checking of objects' attributes
+23
book scanning — 33 books
first published 15 Dec 2000
process of converting physical media into digital media
+27
Ruby on Rails — 103 books
first published 15 Dec 2000 added 16 Feb 2017
+97
David Heinemeier Hansson — 45 books
first published 15 Dec 2000 added 16 Feb 2017
programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby on Rails
person
+39
Debian — 144 books
first published 15 Dec 2000
+138
easy for humans, difficult for computers — 13 books
first published 5 Dec 2000 added 7 Jan 2017
+7
hypertext link — 44 books
first published 1 Dec 2000
+38
augmented reality — 250 books
first published 1 Dec 2000
interactive experience of a real-world environment enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information
+244
invention of hypertext — 4 books
first published 1 Dec 2000
Iridium satellite — 27 books
first published 1 Nov 2000
a series of satellites forming the Iridium satellite constellation for voice and data communication around the globe
+21
industrial cluster — 62 books
first published 18 Oct 2000 added 9 Apr 2017
a geographical concentration of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field, often leading to various economic advantages.
+56
We are as Gods — 34 books
first published 18 Oct 2000 added 6 Aug 2023
2021 film directed by Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado
+28
California Ideology — 7 books
first published 18 Oct 2000 added 27 Oct 2025
+1
It's morning again in America — 15 books
first published 18 Oct 2000 added 16 Nov 2021
+9
hydrogen economy — 28 books
first published 18 Oct 2000
+22
first draft of history — 36 books
first published 16 Oct 2000 added 26 Oct 2023
+30
Wayback Machine — 92 books
first published 12 Oct 2000 added 18 Nov 2021
digital archive founded by the Internet Archive
+86
time value of money — 85 books
first published 12 Oct 2000 added 1 Feb 2017
conjecture that there is greater benefit to receiving a sum of money now rather than later
+79
create, read, update, delete — 47 books
first published 30 Sep 2000
four basic functions of persistent storage in computer programming
+41
recommendation engine — 224 books
first published 30 Sep 2000
information filtering system to predict users' preferences
+218
liberal world order — 34 books
first published 4 Sep 2000 added 13 Feb 2017
+28
non-tariff barriers — 40 books
first published 4 Sep 2000
type of trade barriers
+34
Golden Age of Capitalism — 48 books
first published 4 Sep 2000 added 26 Jan 2025
long period of worldwide economic growth following World War II
+42
Celtic Tiger — 49 books
first published 4 Sep 2000
Irish musical and dance production
+43
Global Witness — 58 books
first published 4 Sep 2000 added 8 May 2023
an international NGO that works to expose economic networks behind conflict, corruption, and environmental abuse.
+52
different worldview — 77 books
first published 4 Sep 2000 added 3 Apr 2018
+71
Kangaroo Route — 3 books
first published 31 Aug 2000
flight routes from Australia to United Kingdom via Eastern Hemisphere
if you build it, they will come — 58 books
first published 31 Aug 2000
+52
Pierre-Simon Laplace — 74 books
first published 31 Aug 2000 added 21 Feb 2017
French mathematician and astronomer (1749-1827)
+68
social distancing — 225 books
first published 25 Aug 2000 added 24 Jun 2022
reduction of human social interaction in an effort to prevent the spread of infectious disease
+219
controlled vocabulary — 19 books
first published 24 Aug 2000 added 17 Nov 2023
standardized and organized sets of words and phrases for retrieval and disambiguation of information, distinguishing preferred terms from non-preferred terms
+13
government statistician — 31 books
first published 24 Aug 2000 added 8 Jun 2022
+25
National Debt Clock — 12 books
first published 6 Jun 2000 added 18 Oct 2020
clock displaying the national debt of the United States of America
+6
ride hailing / ride sharing — 388 books
first published 31 May 2000
services that allow individuals to book rides from drivers via a smartphone app
tech
+382
carbon footprint — 540 books
first published 31 May 2000
total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual, event, organisation, or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent
+534
Art Basel — 40 books
first published 31 May 2000 added 15 Aug 2024
+34
bike sharing — 156 books
first published 31 May 2000
system enabling communal bicycles to be shared, often in an urban setting
+150
Airbnb — 607 books
first published 31 May 2000
online platform for short-term lodging listings and rentals
tech
+601
QR code — 145 books
first published 31 May 2000 added 12 Feb 2017
+139
Large Hadron Collider — 131 books
first published 31 May 2000 added 9 Jul 2022
particle collider
+125
digital map — 109 books
first published 2 May 2000 added 3 Mar 2017
computer-based map
+103
Jeff Rulifson — 7 books
first published 27 Apr 2000
an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in computer networking and human-computer interaction.
+1
The Spirit Level — 103 books
first published 27 Mar 2000
book by Seamus Heaney
+97
dual-use technology — 47 books
first published 24 Mar 2000 added 3 Oct 2023
technology that can be used for both civil and military purposes
+41
Silicon Valley garage — 28 books
first published 15 Mar 2000 added 9 Sep 2024
+22
Silicon Valley startup — 169 books
first published 15 Mar 2000
a new business venture based in Silicon Valley, often in the tech or digital sector, aiming for rapid growth and, frequently, a lucrative exit strategy
tech
+163