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2,731 concepts

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sustainable-tourism — 121 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
a form of tourism that aims to have a low impact on the environment and local culture while helping to generate income and employment.
+115
Apple's 1984 Super Bowl advert — 84 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
+78
Clifford Stoll — 21 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 30 Jul 2024
American astronomer
person
+15
"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations" — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 21 Nov 2021
+47
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray — 82 books
first published 1989 added 23 Jan 2017
+76
Irwin Jacobs — 13 books
first published 1989 added 21 Feb 2017
+7
Ted Sorensen — 25 books
first published 1989 added 8 May 2023
+19
interest rate swap — 126 books
first published 1989
linear interest rate derivative involving exchange of interest rates between two parties
+120
London Interbank Offered Rate — 92 books
first published 1989
London Inter-bank Offered Rate
+86
mortgage tax deduction — 107 books
first published 1989
+101
The Predators' Ball — 32 books
first published 1989
book by Connie Bruck
+26
lunar-orbit rendezvous — 24 books
first published 1989 added 7 Jan 2025 space
+18
El Camino Real — 67 books
first published 1989
+61
Apollo 13 — 156 books
first published 1989 added 5 Jun 2022
a 1970 NASA mission that suffered a critical failure but returned safely to Earth
+150
John Meriwether — 59 books
first published 1989 added 24 Apr 2017
American financier
+53
psychological pricing — 14 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
theory that certain prices have a psychological impact
+8
Peter Singer: altruism — 72 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
+66
Karl Jansky — 8 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist and radio engineer
+2
deep time — 102 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 24 Aug 2024
+96
Murray Gell-Mann — 80 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 29 Dec 2016
an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles
+74
retrograde motion — 18 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
the apparent backward motion of a planet as observed from Earth
+12
Wilhelm Olbers — 6 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
Gary Taubes — 38 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
an American journalist and author who focuses on scientific topics, particularly those related to nutrition and health
person
+32
Richard Feynman — 326 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 30 Dec 2016
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
person
+320
Albert Michelson — 36 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
+30
cosmological constant — 49 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+43
cosmic microwave background — 48 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+42
Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+1
John Harrison: Longitude — 66 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+60
cosmic abundance — 10 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+4
anthropic principle — 54 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it
+48
mandelbrot fractal — 106 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
+100
belling the cat — 14 books
first published 31 May 1988 added 2 Nov 2021
a fable about the impracticality of a plan that requires great risk
+8
data acquisition — 93 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
sum of methods of simultaneous or sequential time measurement and counting for measurable or quantifiable data and groups of contiguous data
+87
optical character recognition — 80 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
the technology used to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents or PDF files, into editable and searchable data
+74
future of work — 239 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
study of potential changes to work
+233
Panopticon Jeremy Bentham — 99 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 28 Apr 2018
+93
Shoshana Zuboff — 100 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 27 Apr 2017
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
+94
social web — 115 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites
+109
demand response — 60 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
+54
blue-collar work — 81 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
+75
warehouse automation — 46 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 12 Feb 2022
+40
Jacques de Vaucanson — 26 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
French inventor of mechanical automata
+20
guest worker program — 33 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
program where foreign workers temporarily reside and work in a host country
+27
Computer Numeric Control — 23 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 21 Feb 2017
+17
factory automation — 47 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+41
telepresence — 95 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+89
robot derives from the Czech word robota Czech, meaning slave — 18 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+12
Whole Earth Review — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+39
computer vision — 215 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
+209
game design — 281 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
+275
false flag — 102 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 4 Jun 2023
+96
airport security — 300 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
+294
Stephen Hawking — 382 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 person
+376
white picket fence — 131 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 10 Feb 2017
+125
white flight — 187 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
solo project of Justin Roelofs
+181
citizen journalism — 134 books
first published 1988
journalism genre
+128
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 — 41 books
first published 1988 added 15 Nov 2021
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
+35
facts on the ground — 195 books
first published 1988
+189
Live Aid — 53 books
first published 1988 added 12 Feb 2017
a benefit concert held in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
+47
life extension — 157 books
first published 1988
scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
+151
virtual gold — 21 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 11 Oct 2023
+15
disinformation campaign — 170 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 8 Nov 2023
+164
Bolshevik threat — 12 books
first published 11 Sep 1987
+6
no-fly zone — 92 books
first published 6 Jul 1987 added 6 Apr 2022
territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over
+86
Exxon Valdez — 129 books
first published 6 Jul 1987
an oil tanker that spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, causing one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history
+123
space junk — 52 books
first published 1 Jun 1987 added 22 Dec 2022
collection of defunct objects in orbit
+46
mutually assured destruction — 236 books
first published 1 Jun 1987
a military strategy and national security policy where the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both
+230
rent-seeking — 263 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
attempt to obtain economic rent
+257
manufacturing employment — 183 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+177
Jones Act — 26 books
first published 15 Jan 1987 added 15 Oct 2020
+20
endowment effect — 92 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+86
income per capita — 170 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
+164
total factor productivity — 87 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
a measure of the efficiency with which inputs are transformed into outputs in an economy, often seen as an indicator of technological progress.
+81
A Pattern Language — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
+38
supply-chain management — 154 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
the management of the flow of goods and services, involving the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods
+148
DeepMind — 187 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
+181
performance metric — 205 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
+199
knowledge worker — 268 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
+262
price mechanism — 169 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
concept in economics
+163
An Inconvenient Truth — 145 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 6 Mar 2022
2006 film by Davis Guggenheim
+139
megastructure — 51 books
first published 31 Aug 1986
+45
Murray Bookchin — 22 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 27 Sep 2022
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
+16
Chicago Seven — 24 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 18 Aug 2024
+18
Steven Levy — 227 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 person
+221
Kim Stanley Robinson — 64 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 17 Jun 2021
American science fiction writer
+58
Bjarne Stroustrup — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 7 Oct 2023
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
+24
fault tolerance — 141 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 31 Dec 2016
+135
Dennis Ritchie — 34 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 3 Jun 2023
an American computer scientist known for creating the C programming language and contributing to the development of UNIX
+28
general-purpose programming language — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
programming language designed to be used in the widest variety of application domains
+43
L Peter Deutsch — 8 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 2 Oct 2022
Free software programmer and creator of Ghostscript
+2
buffer overflow — 60 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 11 Feb 2025
anomaly in computer security and programming that could be exploited as a security vulnerability
+54
premature optimization — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
antipattern in software development
+38
locality of reference — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
principle describing a tendency to repetitively accessing similar memory location sets momentaneously
+1
database schema — 82 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
visual representation of database system relationships
+76
nuclear winter — 132 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
+126
combinatorial explosion — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
+49
vertical integration — 328 books
first published 1986 added 17 Jun 2022
an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company
+322
Aldo Leopold — 59 books
first published 1986 added 28 Oct 2023
American ecologist, work on conservation ethics
+53
hacker house — 14 books
first published 1986
house in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
+8