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2,727 concepts

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Howard Zinn — 88 books
first published 1974
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
+82
Jacquard loom — 61 books
first published 1974
weaving loom controlled by punched cards
+55
pocket calculator — 152 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 19 Dec 2023
+146
sexual politics — 96 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 3 Mar 2017
episode of Brothers & Sisters (S1 E12)
+90
Magellanic Cloud — 42 books
first published 27 Jun 1973
+36
fail fast — 103 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 27 Oct 2021
scientific article published on October 2013
+97
hydroponic farming — 28 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 5 Oct 2023
+22
do what you love — 106 books
first published 1973 added 10 Feb 2022
+100
Abraham Maslow — 158 books
first published 1973 added 24 Mar 2022
American psychologist, creator of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
+152
Murray Rothbard — 70 books
first published 1973 added 21 Nov 2023
American economist (1926–1995)
+64
independent contractor — 262 books
first published 1973 added 25 Apr 2021
natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under a contract or verbal agreement.
+256
complexity theory — 180 books
first published 1973
+174
Abbie Hoffman — 80 books
first published 1973 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist (1936–1989)
person
+74
antiwork — 39 books
first published 17 Oct 1972 added 27 Oct 2021
+33
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
+15
Henri Poincaré — 113 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
+107
land tenure — 121 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+115
invention of the telescope — 35 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+29
uranium enrichment — 194 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
+188
hybrid work — 24 books
first published 14 Jun 1972 added 4 Dec 2023
+18
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — 106 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+100
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres — 22 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+16
time dilation — 70 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.
+64
post-capitalism — 80 books
first published 1972 added 18 Dec 2023 economics politics capitalism
+74
joint-stock company — 245 books
first published 1972
business entity which is owned by shareholders
finance
+239
squatters' rights — 19 books
first published 1971 added 7 Oct 2023
+13
young professional — 364 books
first published 1971
+358
death from overwork — 53 books
first published 1971 added 29 Apr 2022
+47
California gold rush — 156 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.
+150
mass immigration — 507 books
first published 1971 added 19 Mar 2017
+501
banking crisis — 416 books
first published 1971
a situation where a significant number of banks or financial institutions are in danger of failing
+410
God and Mammon — 35 books
first published 1971 added 25 Feb 2017
+29
Socratic dialogue — 57 books
first published 1971
genre of literary prose
+51
land reform — 336 books
first published 1971
changes to land ownership
politics
+330
business climate — 161 books
first published 1971 added 9 Feb 2017
+155
call centre — 768 books
first published 1971
centralised office used for the purpose of receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone
+762
the medium is the message — 78 books
first published 1971
+72
centre right — 439 books
first published 1971 added 9 Feb 2017 politics
+433
South China Sea — 327 books
first published 31 Dec 1970
marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean
+321
New Journalism — 154 books
first published 31 Dec 1970
Style of journalistic writing
+148
V2 rocket — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
+37
gentrification — 502 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 1 Nov 2022
urban socioeconomic process
+496
revolving restaurant — 53 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 1 Apr 2025
restaurant built on a revolving platform, usually on a tower
+47
Jarndyce and Jarndyce — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
fictional court case created by Charles Dickens
+9
cakes and ale — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 30 Oct 2022
+1
Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse — 31 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
+25
Torches of Freedom — 29 books
first published 1970
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
+23
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
+13
do well by doing good — 67 books
first published 1970 added 9 Aug 2023
+61
South of Market, San Francisco — 90 books
first published 1970
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States
+84
Mount Scopus — 39 books
first published 1970 added 19 May 2021
a mountain in Jerusalem, home to the main campus of the Hebrew University
+33
red diaper baby — 17 books
first published 1970 added 20 Mar 2025
+11
cosmological principle — 30 books
first published 1968
notion that the spatial distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic at large scales
+24
finite state — 67 books
first published 1968
+61
model building — 186 books
first published 1968 added 14 Aug 2024
+180
edge city — 77 books
first published 1968
+71
sealed-bid auction — 20 books
first published 1968
+14
stakhanovite — 44 books
first published 1968
Soviet work ethos equating labor with heroism
+38
éminence grise — 123 books
first published 1968
a person who exercises power or influence behind the scenes without holding an official position
+117
Joan Didion — 116 books
first published 1968 added 22 Mar 2018
American writer
+110
Marshall McLuhan — 220 books
first published 1968
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
+214
Great Leap Forward — 395 books
first published 1968 added 6 Nov 2022
economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
+389
Stewart Brand — 266 books
first published 1968
American writer
person
+260
Conway's Game of Life — 170 books
first published 1968
Two-dimensional cellular automaton devised by J. H. Conway in 1970
+164
low birth rate — 83 books
first published 1968 added 6 Jan 2025
+77
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — 54 books
first published 1968 added 5 Mar 2017 book
+48
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
+272
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
+165
Haight Ashbury — 130 books
first published 1968
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
+124
Alfred Russel Wallace — 124 books
first published 1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
+118
Bonfire of the Vanities — 112 books
first published 1968 added 9 Feb 2017 book
+106
double helix — 300 books
first published 1968 added 20 Jan 2017
+294
mobile money — 76 books
first published 1968
payment services via a mobile device
+70
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.
+189
strikebreaker — 89 books
first published 1968
an individual who works despite an ongoing strike or who crosses a picket line to work
+83
Schrödinger's Cat — 183 books
first published 1968
thought experiment devised by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger about quantum superposition of macroscopic states, e.g. between a live cat and a dead cat
+177
Buckminster Fuller — 181 books
first published 1968
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
person
+175
Menlo Park — 460 books
first published 1968 place
+454
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
+32
compound rate of return — 33 books
first published 15 Oct 1967
+27
Edward Thorp — 64 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 16 Feb 2017 person
+58
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
person
+257
meta-analysis — 482 books
first published 1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
+476
impulse control — 169 books
first published 1967
the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
+163
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
+14
self-play — 57 books
first published 1967 added 20 Apr 2024
reinforcement learning technique
+51
TED Talk — 482 books
first published 1967 added 24 Oct 2022
+476
conceptual framework — 313 books
first published 1967
+307
randomized controlled trial — 302 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
+296
cognitive dissonance — 404 books
first published 1967
scientific article published on 01 October 1962
+398
delayed gratification — 233 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
+227
social engineering — 502 books
first published 1967 added 1 Dec 2023
+496
unbiased observer — 29 books
first published 1967
+23
confounding variable — 57 books
first published 1967 added 5 Oct 2023
an extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates with both the dependent and independent variable
+51
epigenetics — 189 books
first published 1967
+183
knowledge gap — 106 books
first published 1967 added 16 Nov 2023
+100
deskilling — 111 books
first published 1967 added 3 Jan 2017
elimination of skilled labor from an economy due to the introduction of new technology
+105
private property rights — 178 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 14 Jan 2024
+172
falling living standards — 128 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 29 Dec 2016
+122
data science — 461 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.
+455