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2,703 concepts

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Abbie Hoffman — 79 books
first published 1973 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist (1936–1989)
do what you love — 106 books
first published 1973 added 10 Feb 2022
Murray Rothbard — 70 books
first published 1973 added 21 Nov 2023
American economist (1926–1995)
Abraham Maslow — 158 books
first published 1973 added 24 Mar 2022
American psychologist, creator of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
anti-work — 21 books
first published 17 Oct 1972
ethical theory and social movement that advocates for the abolition of paid work as a central aspect of society
antiwork — 50 books
first published 17 Oct 1972 added 27 Oct 2021
Henri Poincaré — 103 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — 106 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres — 21 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
invention of the telescope — 35 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
land tenure — 121 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
uranium enrichment — 191 books
first published 14 Jun 1972 added 14 Jan 2017
industrial process of increasing the proportion of uranium-235 in uranium (and lowering the proportion of uranium-238) through isotope separation
hybrid work — 24 books
first published 14 Jun 1972 added 4 Dec 2023
time dilation — 68 books
first published 1 Mar 1972 added 20 Mar 2022
a difference in the elapsed time measured by two observers due to velocity or gravitational differences between them, as predicted by the theory of relativity.
post-capitalism — 79 books
first published 1972 added 18 Dec 2023
éminence grise — 90 books
first published 1972
a person who exercises power or influence behind the scenes without holding an official position
joint-stock company — 246 books
first published 1972
business entity which is owned by shareholders
mass immigration — 501 books
first published 1971 added 19 Mar 2017
the medium is the message — 78 books
first published 1971
God and Mammon — 35 books
first published 1971 added 25 Feb 2017
banking crisis — 411 books
first published 1971
a situation where a significant number of banks or financial institutions are in danger of failing
Socratic dialogue — 57 books
first published 1971
genre of literary prose
centre right — 434 books
first published 1971 added 9 Feb 2017
call centre — 765 books
first published 1971
centralised office used for the purpose of receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone
California gold rush — 159 books
first published 1971
a period of intense migration to California between 1848 and 1855 after the discovery of gold, greatly impacting the state's demographics and economy.
young professional — 362 books
first published 1971
squatters' rights — 21 books
first published 1971 added 7 Oct 2023
land reform — 334 books
first published 1971
changes to land ownership
business climate — 160 books
first published 1971 added 9 Feb 2017
New Journalism — 218 books
first published 31 Dec 1970
Style of journalistic writing
South China Sea — 326 books
first published 31 Dec 1970
marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean
gentrification — 502 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 1 Nov 2022
urban socioeconomic process
cakes and ale — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 30 Oct 2022
Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse — 30 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
revolving restaurant — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 1 Apr 2025
restaurant built on a revolving platform, usually on a tower
V2 rocket — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
Jarndyce and Jarndyce — 14 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
fictional court case created by Charles Dickens
do well by doing good — 67 books
first published 1970 added 9 Aug 2023
South of Market, San Francisco — 90 books
first published 1970
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States
red diaper baby — 17 books
first published 1970 added 20 Mar 2025
shadow ban — 19 books
first published 1970 added 29 Jan 2024
blocking or partially blocking a user or content from an online community without their awareness
Mount Scopus — 39 books
first published 1970 added 19 May 2021
a mountain in Jerusalem, home to the main campus of the Hebrew University
Torches of Freedom — 29 books
first published 1970
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
mobile money — 76 books
first published 1968
payment services via a mobile device
cosmological principle — 30 books
first published 1968
notion that the spatial distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic at large scales
Alfred Russel Wallace — 123 books
first published 1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
low birth rate — 83 books
first published 1968 added 6 Jan 2025
double helix — 299 books
first published 1968 added 20 Jan 2017
Marshall McLuhan — 219 books
first published 1968
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
edge city — 77 books
first published 1968
Stewart Brand — 263 books
first published 1968
American writer
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — 54 books
first published 1968 added 5 Mar 2017
finite state — 67 books
first published 1968
sealed-bid auction — 20 books
first published 1968
Bonfire of the Vanities — 114 books
first published 1968 added 9 Feb 2017
model building — 186 books
first published 1968 added 14 Aug 2024
Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco — 11 books
first published 1968 added 4 Apr 2022
lateral thinking — 171 books
first published 1968 added 6 Apr 2018
a manner of solving problems and generating new ideas that involves looking at the problem from a unique or different perspective
Haight Ashbury — 128 books
first published 1968
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
stakhanovite — 43 books
first published 1968
Soviet work ethos equating labor with heroism
Joan Didion — 115 books
first published 1968 added 22 Mar 2018
American writer
Great Leap Forward — 392 books
first published 1968 added 6 Nov 2022
economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
phenotype — 278 books
first published 1968
composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment
Menlo Park — 460 books
first published 1968
strikebreaker — 129 books
first published 1968
an individual who works despite an ongoing strike or who crosses a picket line to work
Buckminster Fuller — 181 books
first published 1968
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
Dr. Strangelove — 195 books
first published 1968 added 18 Mar 2022
a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick about nuclear war and political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Edward Thorp — 64 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 16 Feb 2017
compound rate of return — 33 books
first published 15 Oct 1967
beat the dealer — 38 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 15 Feb 2017
a book on card counting in blackjack by Edward O. Thorp
Paul Samuelson — 263 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 19 Apr 2017
an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
cognitive dissonance — 402 books
first published 1967
scientific article published on 01 October 1962
social engineering — 497 books
first published 1967 added 1 Dec 2023
TED Talk — 480 books
first published 1967 added 24 Oct 2022
randomized controlled trial — 249 books
first published 1967
experimental method designed to reduce bias, typically accomplished by randomly allocating subjects to two or more groups, with one being a control group
unbiased observer — 29 books
first published 1967
self-play — 55 books
first published 1967 added 20 Apr 2024
reinforcement learning technique
knowledge gap — 104 books
first published 1967 added 16 Nov 2023
epigenetics — 190 books
first published 1967
predictive maintenance — 20 books
first published 1967 added 24 Jan 2024
determining the condition of in-service equipment in order to estimate when maintenance should be performed
delayed gratification — 232 books
first published 1967
psychological concept describing a process that the subject undergoes when the subject resists the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward
deskilling — 164 books
first published 1967 added 3 Jan 2017
elimination of skilled labor from an economy due to the introduction of new technology
confounding variable — 56 books
first published 1967 added 5 Oct 2023
an extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates with both the dependent and independent variable
conceptual framework — 313 books
first published 1967
meta-analysis — 479 books
first published 1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
impulse control — 167 books
first published 1967
the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
data science — 457 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 20 Nov 2021
an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.
War on Poverty — 223 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
unofficial name for legislation first introduced by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964
East Village — 204 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
private property rights — 179 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 14 Jan 2024
Ford paid five dollars a day — 48 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 10 Jan 2017
Merry Pranksters — 81 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024
group formed around American author Ken Kesey
Maxwell's demon — 10 books
first published 1966 added 24 Dec 2023
Steven Pinker — 308 books
first published 1966
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
job automation — 363 books
first published 1966
Margaret Mead — 185 books
first published 1966 added 30 Dec 2024
American anthropologist (1901—1978)
Turing test — 226 books
first published 1966
test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human
Peace of Westphalia — 88 books
first published 1966
peace treaty ending the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars
theory of mind — 210 books
first published 1966
Ken Kesey — 111 books
first published 1966 added 26 Jun 2024