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2,723 concepts

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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
Murray Rothbard — 70 books
first published 1973 added 21 Nov 2023
American economist (1926–1995)
+64
Abbie Hoffman — 80 books
first published 1973 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist (1936–1989)
person
+74
Abraham Maslow — 158 books
first published 1973 added 24 Mar 2022
American psychologist, creator of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
+152
do what you love — 106 books
first published 1973 added 10 Feb 2022
+100
complexity theory — 180 books
first published 1973
+174
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
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
hybrid work — 24 books
first published 14 Jun 1972 added 4 Dec 2023
+18
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
land tenure — 121 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+115
Henri Poincaré — 113 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
+107
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres — 22 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+16
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — 106 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+100
invention of the telescope — 35 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
+29
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
joint-stock company — 245 books
first published 1972
business entity which is owned by shareholders
finance
+239
post-capitalism — 80 books
first published 1972 added 18 Dec 2023
+74
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
centre right — 439 books
first published 1971 added 9 Feb 2017 politics
+433
Golden arches theory — 477 books
first published 1971 added 24 Dec 2021
+471
the medium is the message — 78 books
first published 1971
+72
young professional — 364 books
first published 1971
+358
banking crisis — 416 books
first published 1971
a situation where a significant number of banks or financial institutions are in danger of failing
+410
death from overwork — 53 books
first published 1971 added 29 Apr 2022
+47
mass immigration — 507 books
first published 1971 added 19 Mar 2017
+501
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
Socratic dialogue — 57 books
first published 1971
genre of literary prose
+51
God and Mammon — 35 books
first published 1971 added 25 Feb 2017
+29
squatters' rights — 19 books
first published 1971 added 7 Oct 2023
+13
land reform — 336 books
first published 1971
changes to land ownership
politics
+330
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
Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse — 31 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
+25
cakes and ale — 7 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 30 Oct 2022
+1
V2 rocket — 43 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
+37
Jarndyce and Jarndyce — 15 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
fictional court case created by Charles Dickens
+9
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
Torches of Freedom — 29 books
first published 1970
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
+23
South of Market, San Francisco — 90 books
first published 1970
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States
+84
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
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
do well by doing good — 67 books
first published 1970 added 9 Aug 2023
+61
red diaper baby — 17 books
first published 1970 added 20 Mar 2025
+11
Buckminster Fuller — 181 books
first published 1968
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
person
+175
Bonfire of the Vanities — 112 books
first published 1968 added 9 Feb 2017 book
+106
model building — 186 books
first published 1968 added 14 Aug 2024
+180
finite state — 67 books
first published 1968
+61
éminence grise — 123 books
first published 1968
a person who exercises power or influence behind the scenes without holding an official position
+117
edge city — 77 books
first published 1968
+71
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
stakhanovite — 44 books
first published 1968
Soviet work ethos equating labor with heroism
+38
Conway's Game of Life — 170 books
first published 1968
Two-dimensional cellular automaton devised by J. H. Conway in 1970
+164
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
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
Alfred Russel Wallace — 124 books
first published 1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
+118
sealed-bid auction — 20 books
first published 1968
+14
Stewart Brand — 266 books
first published 1968
American writer
person
+260
Haight Ashbury — 130 books
first published 1968
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
+124
Marshall McLuhan — 220 books
first published 1968
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
+214
strikebreaker — 89 books
first published 1968
an individual who works despite an ongoing strike or who crosses a picket line to work
+83
double helix — 300 books
first published 1968 added 20 Jan 2017
+294
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — 54 books
first published 1968 added 5 Mar 2017 book
+48
low birth rate — 83 books
first published 1968 added 6 Jan 2025
+77
Joan Didion — 116 books
first published 1968 added 22 Mar 2018
American writer
+110
Great Leap Forward — 395 books
first published 1968 added 6 Nov 2022
economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
+389
Menlo Park — 460 books
first published 1968 place
+454
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
mobile money — 76 books
first published 1968
payment services via a mobile device
+70
compound rate of return — 33 books
first published 15 Oct 1967
+27
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
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
Edward Thorp — 64 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 16 Feb 2017 person
+58
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
TED Talk — 482 books
first published 1967 added 24 Oct 2022
+476
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
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
conceptual framework — 313 books
first published 1967
+307
cognitive dissonance — 404 books
first published 1967
scientific article published on 01 October 1962
+398
epigenetics — 189 books
first published 1967
+183
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
impulse control — 169 books
first published 1967
the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
+163
self-play — 57 books
first published 1967 added 20 Apr 2024
reinforcement learning technique
+51
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
meta-analysis — 482 books
first published 1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
+476
social engineering — 502 books
first published 1967 added 1 Dec 2023
+496
East Village — 206 books
first published 15 Aug 1966
+200
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
private property rights — 178 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 14 Jan 2024
+172
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
+217
falling living standards — 128 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 29 Dec 2016
+122
Ford paid five dollars a day — 17 books
first published 15 Aug 1966 added 10 Jan 2017
+11