dark matter
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280 books
first published
12 Sep 1985
mysterious non-luminous matter (and/or radiation) comprising most of the matter in our observable universe
supervolcano
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49 books
first published
12 Sep 1985
a volcano that has had an eruption with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8, the largest value on the index
low earth orbit
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161 books
first published
2 Jan 1985
added 15 Oct 2020
orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers
intermodal
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72 books
first published
14 Jun 1984
train station for more than one railway route
Kōnosuke Matsushita
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11 books
first published
14 Jun 1984
added 25 Oct 2021
Founder of Panasonic
Bullshit Jobs
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65 books
first published
14 Jun 1984
added 9 Jun 2024
open immigration
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42 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 2 Nov 2022
View that people may live in any country
Brownian motion
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141 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
random motion of particles suspended in a fluid, observed microscopically
Alvin Toffler
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124 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 2 Nov 2021
American writer and futurist
Teledyne
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43 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 13 Feb 2022
American industrial company
intentional community
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77 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 31 May 2023
planned, socially-cohesive, residential community
Colonization of Mars
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113 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
the hypothetical human habitation and terraforming of the planet Mars
social intelligence
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158 books
first published
1 Jun 1984
added 6 Apr 2018
Capacity to know oneself and to know others
haute cuisine
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216 books
first published
1 Mar 1984
a style of cooking characterized by elaborate preparation and presentation, often associated with French culinary traditions.
air gap
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91 books
first published
1 Mar 1984
added 4 Oct 2023
security measure to isolate computer or network from unsecured networks
Snow Crash
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48 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
added 4 Mar 2023
LNG terminal
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13 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
facility for managing the export and/or import of liquefied natural gas
operational security
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130 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
added 22 Feb 2022
a risk management process that encourages managers to view operations from the perspective of an adversary to protect sensitive information
Ada Lovelace
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98 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
English mathematician, work on Analytical Engine
Neal Stephenson
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130 books
first published
2 Jan 1984
added 4 Mar 2023
American science fiction writer
iterative process
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211 books
first published
1984
numerical method in which the n-th approximation of the solution is obtained on the basis on the (n-1) previous approximations
Richard Stallman
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107 books
first published
1984
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Norman Macrae
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21 books
first published
1984
added 3 Nov 2017
British economist and journalist (1923–2010)
the built environment
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224 books
first published
1984
the human-made spaces in which people live, work, and interact, including buildings, parks, and transportation systems.
wikimedia commons
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135 books
first published
1984
online repository of free-use image, sound, and other media files; part of the Wikimedia ecosystem
Andrew Wiles
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43 books
first published
1984
British mathematician; (born 1953)
The Wisdom of Crowds
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175 books
first published
1984
a book by James Surowiecki that explores the idea that large groups of people are often smarter than the smartest individuals within them when it comes to problem-solving.
late capitalism
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140 books
first published
1 Nov 1983
Ideas concerning the potential end of capitalism
airline deregulation
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53 books
first published
1 Nov 1983
removal of government controls on airline industry
Ayatollah Khomeini
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189 books
first published
24 Feb 1983
an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution and became the country's Supreme Leader.
the long tail
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228 books
first published
24 Feb 1983
added 3 Oct 2023
Milgram experiment
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78 books
first published
1983
series of social psychology experiments, studying obedience to authority figures
school choice
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84 books
first published
1983
arrangements giving parents the facility to choose schools for their children
Peter Pan Syndrome
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12 books
first published
1982
added 27 Oct 2021
a term referring to adults who refuse to grow up and take on responsibilities, instead maintaining childlike attitudes and behaviours.
Douglas Hofstadter
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87 books
first published
1982
an American professor known for his work on consciousness, artificial intelligence, and the book 'Gödel, Escher, Bach'
Tragedy of the Commons
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242 books
first published
1982
added 25 Oct 2021
self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
assortative mating
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70 books
first published
1982
added 11 Aug 2017
the tendency of individuals to mate with those who have similar traits
Recombinant DNA
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88 books
first published
1982
added 16 Nov 2021
DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods
p-value
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113 books
first published
1982
a statistic used in hypothesis testing to indicate the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis
yield curve
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148 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
curve showing several interest rates across different contract lengths for a similar debt contract
labor-force participation
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170 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 15 Jan 2017
the percentage of working-age people who are either employed or actively seeking work
deindustrialization
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383 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
process of reduction of industrial activity
cloud computing
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506 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
the delivery of computing services, such as servers, storage, and networking, over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
Jeff Bezos
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606 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
American business magnate (born 1964)
Edward Said
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104 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 5 Nov 2024
Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist
knowledge economy
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304 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
approach to generating value
Frances Cairncross
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24 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 6 Dec 2023
British journalist and economist (1944-)
Bernie Madoff
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271 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
an American financier convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
clean tech
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97 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
US scientific journal
power law
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245 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 28 Apr 2022
inverted yield curve
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24 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 19 Jun 2022
an interest rate environment where long-term debt instruments have lower yield than short-term debt instruments, often seen as an indicator of an impending recession.
hub-and-spoke system
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96 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 30 Oct 2023
form of transport topology optimization in which traffic planners organize routes as a series of "spokes" that connect outlying points to a central "hub"
Skinner box
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51 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 24 Oct 2022
Solyndra
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47 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 21 Sep 2022
a solar panel manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy, controversial for receiving government loans
George Gilder
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113 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
an American investor, writer, and economist known for his views on technology and economics
Robert Solow
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182 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 4 Feb 2018
American economist
moving assembly line
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58 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 30 Oct 2023
manufacturing technology where an unfinished product is moved from workstation to workstation where work steps are performed or parts are added in sequence until the product is complete
Norman Borlaug
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69 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 23 Jan 2024
job guarantee
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62 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 6 Jan 2025
longitudinal study
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303 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
added 1 May 2018
a research design that involves repeated observations or examinations of the same subjects over a period of time
paradox of thrift
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46 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
economic paradox that an increase in autonomous saving decreases aggregate demand and thus gross output, which will in turn lower total saving
capital controls
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240 books
first published
30 Apr 1981
monetary policy limiting transfer of assets in or out of a country