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2,714 concepts

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carbon offset — 171 books
first published 2 Jan 1989 added 7 Oct 2023
reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere
Saturday Night Live — 304 books
first published 2 Jan 1989
American late-night live television sketch comedy show
El Camino Real — 67 books
first published 1989
mortgage tax deduction — 98 books
first published 1989
The Predators' Ball — 33 books
first published 1989
book by Connie Bruck
London Interbank Offered Rate — 93 books
first published 1989
London Inter-bank Offered Rate
Irwin Jacobs — 13 books
first published 1989 added 21 Feb 2017
Ted Sorensen — 24 books
first published 1989 added 8 May 2023
John Meriwether — 59 books
first published 1989 added 24 Apr 2017
American financier
lunar-orbit rendezvous — 24 books
first published 1989 added 7 Jan 2025
The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray — 75 books
first published 1989 added 23 Jan 2017
Apollo 13 — 152 books
first published 1989 added 5 Jun 2022
a 1970 NASA mission that suffered a critical failure but returned safely to Earth
interest rate swap — 126 books
first published 1989
linear interest rate derivative involving exchange of interest rates between two parties
Peter Singer: altruism — 71 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
psychological pricing — 14 books
first published 15 Dec 1988
theory that certain prices have a psychological impact
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
Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis — 7 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
cosmological constant — 48 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
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
Wilhelm Olbers — 6 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
cosmic microwave background — 46 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
deep time — 100 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 24 Aug 2024
Albert Michelson — 36 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
mandelbrot fractal — 106 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
cosmic abundance — 10 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
John Harrison: Longitude — 66 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
retrograde motion — 18 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
the apparent backward motion of a planet as observed from Earth
Karl Jansky — 8 books
first published 30 Jun 1988
American physicist and radio engineer
Richard Feynman — 323 books
first published 30 Jun 1988 added 30 Dec 2016
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
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
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
future of work — 234 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
study of potential changes to work
data acquisition — 92 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
blue-collar work — 81 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
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
demand response — 58 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
Panopticon Jeremy Bentham — 97 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 28 Apr 2018
social web — 115 books
first published 14 Apr 1988
World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites
Shoshana Zuboff — 95 books
first published 14 Apr 1988 added 27 Apr 2017
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
computer vision — 209 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game design — 277 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
guest worker program — 33 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
program where foreign workers temporarily reside and work in a host country
robot derives from the Czech word robota Czech, meaning slave — 8 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
Computer Numeric Control — 22 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 21 Feb 2017
warehouse automation — 62 books
first published 31 Mar 1988 added 12 Feb 2022
Whole Earth Review — 45 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
factory automation — 47 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
Jacques de Vaucanson — 26 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
French inventor of mechanical automata
telepresence — 96 books
first published 31 Mar 1988
white picket fence — 129 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 10 Feb 2017
Stephen Hawking — 378 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
white flight — 187 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
solo project of Justin Roelofs
airport security — 299 books
first published 2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
false flag — 101 books
first published 2 Jan 1988 added 4 Jun 2023
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 — 29 books
first published 1988 added 15 Nov 2021
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
facts on the ground — 192 books
first published 1988
Live Aid — 51 books
first published 1988 added 12 Feb 2017
a benefit concert held in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
life extension — 154 books
first published 1988
scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
citizen journalism — 133 books
first published 1988
journalism genre
virtual gold — 21 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 11 Oct 2023
disinformation campaign — 165 books
first published 11 Sep 1987 added 8 Nov 2023
Bolshevik threat — 12 books
first published 11 Sep 1987
no-fly zone — 93 books
first published 6 Jul 1987 added 6 Apr 2022
territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over
Zeno's paradox — 5 books
first published 6 Jul 1987
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
mutually assured destruction — 233 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
space junk — 49 books
first published 1 Jun 1987 added 22 Dec 2022
collection of defunct objects in orbit
manufacturing employment — 158 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
Jones Act — 26 books
first published 15 Jan 1987 added 15 Oct 2020
rent-seeking — 261 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
attempt to obtain economic rent
income per capita — 167 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
total factor productivity — 86 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.
endowment effect — 92 books
first published 15 Jan 1987
supply-chain management — 151 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
performance metric — 200 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
An Inconvenient Truth — 143 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 6 Mar 2022
2006 film by Davis Guggenheim
DeepMind — 181 books
first published 2 Jan 1987 added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
knowledge worker — 265 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
A Pattern Language — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
price mechanism — 166 books
first published 2 Jan 1987
concept in economics
Boycotts of Israel — 46 books
first published 1987
political tactic of avoiding economic, political and cultural ties with the State of Israel
Chicago Seven — 23 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 18 Aug 2024
Hacker News — 99 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 17 Dec 2021
megastructure — 52 books
first published 31 Aug 1986
Murray Bookchin — 21 books
first published 31 Aug 1986 added 27 Sep 2022
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher (1921–2006)
Steven Levy — 224 books
first published 31 Aug 1986
database schema — 81 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
visual representation of database system relationships
buffer overflow — 62 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 11 Feb 2025
anomaly in computer security and programming that could be exploited as a security vulnerability
Kim Stanley Robinson — 64 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 17 Jun 2021
American science fiction writer
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
premature optimization — 44 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
antipattern in software development
general-purpose programming language — 49 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
programming language designed to be used in the widest variety of application domains
locality of reference — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
principle describing a tendency to repetitively accessing similar memory location sets momentaneously
fault tolerance — 141 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 31 Dec 2016
Bjarne Stroustrup — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 7 Oct 2023
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++
nuclear winter — 132 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
L Peter Deutsch — 8 books
first published 2 Jan 1986 added 2 Oct 2022
Free software programmer and creator of Ghostscript
combinatorial explosion — 55 books
first published 2 Jan 1986
old-boy network — 143 books
first published 1986 added 23 Feb 2017
hacker house — 14 books
first published 1986
house in Prince County, Prince Edward Island