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2,731 concepts
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activist lawyer
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27 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
lawyer advocating for social, economic, or political change
disinformation
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571 books
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
first published 1974 added 18 Oct 2020
false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive and manipulate
sexual politics
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96 books
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 3 Mar 2017
first published 31 Dec 1973 added 3 Mar 2017
episode of Brothers & Sisters (S1 E12)
fail fast
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105 books
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 27 Oct 2021
first published 27 Jun 1973 added 27 Oct 2021
scientific article published on October 2013
independent contractor
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263 books
first published 1973 added 25 Apr 2021
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.
Abbie Hoffman
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80 books
first published 1973 added 17 Aug 2024
first published 1973 added 17 Aug 2024
American activist (1936–1989)
person
Abraham Maslow
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159 books
first published 1973 added 24 Mar 2022
first published 1973 added 24 Mar 2022
American psychologist, creator of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
anti-work
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21 books
first published 17 Oct 1972
first published 17 Oct 1972
ethical theory and social movement that advocates for the abolition of paid work as a central aspect of society
Henri Poincaré
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113 books
first published 14 Jun 1972
first published 14 Jun 1972
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
uranium enrichment
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197 books
first published 14 Jun 1972 added 14 Jan 2017
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
time dilation
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72 books
first published 1 Mar 1972 added 20 Mar 2022
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.
joint-stock company
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248 books
first published 1972
first published 1972
business entity which is owned by shareholders
finance
California gold rush
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157 books
first published 1971
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.
call centre
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770 books
first published 1971
first published 1971
centralised office used for the purpose of receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone
banking crisis
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418 books
first published 1971
first published 1971
a situation where a significant number of banks or financial institutions are in danger of failing
Jarndyce and Jarndyce
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15 books
first published 2 Jan 1970
first published 2 Jan 1970
fictional court case created by Charles Dickens
revolving restaurant
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53 books
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 1 Apr 2025
first published 2 Jan 1970 added 1 Apr 2025
restaurant built on a revolving platform, usually on a tower
Mount Scopus
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39 books
first published 1970 added 19 May 2021
first published 1970 added 19 May 2021
a mountain in Jerusalem, home to the main campus of the Hebrew University
Torches of Freedom
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29 books
first published 1970
first published 1970
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
South of Market, San Francisco
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90 books
first published 1970
first published 1970
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States
shadow ban
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20 books
first published 1970 added 29 Jan 2024
first published 1970 added 29 Jan 2024
blocking or partially blocking a user or content from an online community without their awareness
Great Leap Forward
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398 books
first published 1968 added 6 Nov 2022
first published 1968 added 6 Nov 2022
economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
Alfred Russel Wallace
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125 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
Dr. Strangelove
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196 books
first published 1968 added 18 Mar 2022
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.
Schrödinger's Cat
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186 books
first published 1968
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
lateral thinking
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174 books
first published 1968 added 6 Apr 2018
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
éminence grise
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123 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
a person who exercises power or influence behind the scenes without holding an official position
Haight Ashbury
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131 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
Conway's Game of Life
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173 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
Two-dimensional cellular automaton devised by J. H. Conway in 1970
phenotype
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279 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment
Buckminster Fuller
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183 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
person
cosmological principle
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30 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
notion that the spatial distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic at large scales
strikebreaker
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93 books
first published 1968
first published 1968
an individual who works despite an ongoing strike or who crosses a picket line to work
beat the dealer
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38 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 15 Feb 2017
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 15 Feb 2017
a book on card counting in blackjack by Edward O. Thorp
Paul Samuelson
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264 books
first published 15 Oct 1967 added 19 Apr 2017
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
impulse control
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170 books
first published 1967
first published 1967
the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
cognitive dissonance
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405 books
first published 1967
first published 1967
scientific article published on 01 October 1962
delayed gratification
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234 books
first published 1967
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
confounding variable
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58 books
first published 1967 added 5 Oct 2023
first published 1967 added 5 Oct 2023
an extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates with both the dependent and independent variable
meta-analysis
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486 books
first published 1967
first published 1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
randomized controlled trial
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305 books
first published 1967
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
deskilling
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111 books
first published 1967 added 3 Jan 2017
first published 1967 added 3 Jan 2017
elimination of skilled labor from an economy due to the introduction of new technology
