G4S
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135 books
first published
1974
added 26 Feb 2017
sexual politics
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96 books
first published
31 Dec 1973
added 3 Mar 2017
episode of Brothers & Sisters (S1 E12)
fail fast
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102 books
first published
27 Jun 1973
added 27 Oct 2021
scientific article published on October 2013
gravity well
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126 books
first published
27 Jun 1973
added 4 Feb 2017
independent contractor
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259 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.
Abraham Maslow
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158 books
first published
1973
added 24 Mar 2022
American psychologist, creator of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Murray Rothbard
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70 books
first published
1973
added 21 Nov 2023
American economist (1926–1995)
Abbie Hoffman
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79 books
first published
1973
added 17 Aug 2024
American activist (1936–1989)
antiwork
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50 books
first published
17 Oct 1972
added 27 Oct 2021
anti-work
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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
hybrid work
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24 books
first published
14 Jun 1972
added 4 Dec 2023
Henri Poincaré
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103 books
first published
14 Jun 1972
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
uranium enrichment
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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
time dilation
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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.
éminence grise
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90 books
first published
1972
a person who exercises power or influence behind the scenes without holding an official position
joint-stock company
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246 books
first published
1972
business entity which is owned by shareholders
call centre
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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
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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.
land reform
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334 books
first published
1971
changes to land ownership
banking crisis
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411 books
first published
1971
a situation where a significant number of banks or financial institutions are in danger of failing
centre right
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434 books
first published
1971
added 9 Feb 2017
New Journalism
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218 books
first published
31 Dec 1970
Style of journalistic writing
South China Sea
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326 books
first published
31 Dec 1970
marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean
Jarndyce and Jarndyce
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14 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
fictional court case created by Charles Dickens
V2 rocket
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43 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
gentrification
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502 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
added 1 Nov 2022
urban socioeconomic process
revolving restaurant
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53 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
added 1 Apr 2025
restaurant built on a revolving platform, usually on a tower
cakes and ale
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7 books
first published
2 Jan 1970
added 30 Oct 2022
Torches of Freedom
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29 books
first published
1970
term encouraging women's smoking in the early 20th century United States
shadow ban
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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
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39 books
first published
1970
added 19 May 2021
a mountain in Jerusalem, home to the main campus of the Hebrew University
Joan Didion
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115 books
first published
1968
added 22 Mar 2018
American writer
Alfred Russel Wallace
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123 books
first published
1968
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)
phenotype
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278 books
first published
1968
composite of the organism's observable characteristics or traits resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment
Great Leap Forward
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392 books
first published
1968
added 6 Nov 2022
economic and social campaign by the Chinese Communist Party
Buckminster Fuller
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181 books
first published
1968
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
double helix
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299 books
first published
1968
added 20 Jan 2017
lateral thinking
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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
cosmological principle
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30 books
first published
1968
notion that the spatial distribution of matter in the universe is homogeneous and isotropic at large scales
Marshall McLuhan
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219 books
first published
1968
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
Haight Ashbury
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128 books
first published
1968
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets
stakhanovite
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43 books
first published
1968
Soviet work ethos equating labor with heroism
strikebreaker
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129 books
first published
1968
an individual who works despite an ongoing strike or who crosses a picket line to work
Dr. Strangelove
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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.
mobile money
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76 books
first published
1968
payment services via a mobile device
beat the dealer
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38 books
first published
15 Oct 1967
added 15 Feb 2017
a book on card counting in blackjack by Edward O. Thorp
Edward Thorp
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64 books
first published
15 Oct 1967
added 16 Feb 2017
Paul Samuelson
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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
predictive maintenance
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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
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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
cognitive dissonance
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402 books
first published
1967
scientific article published on 01 October 1962
meta-analysis
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479 books
first published
1967
statistical method that summarizes data from multiple sources
confounding variable
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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
TED Talk
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480 books
first published
1967
added 24 Oct 2022
deskilling
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164 books
first published
1967
added 3 Jan 2017
elimination of skilled labor from an economy due to the introduction of new technology
impulse control
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167 books
first published
1967
the ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act
randomized controlled trial
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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
self-play
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55 books
first published
1967
added 20 Apr 2024
reinforcement learning technique
War on Poverty
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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