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microaggression — 71 books
first published 2016 added 14 Apr 2021
subtle, often unintentional, expressions or behaviors that communicate negative or derogatory messages or assumptions towards members of a marginalized group, typically reflecting underlying prejudices or stereotypes
+65
parabiotic — 6 books
first published 29 Dec 2015 added 23 Sep 2023
refers to the joining of two organisms to share circulatory systems, often for scientific research
William Bengen — 5 books
first published 20 Dec 2015 added 6 Oct 2022
a financial planner known for his research on the sustainability of withdrawal rates in retirement planning
person
Frances Oldham Kelsey — 8 books
first published 3 Nov 2015 added 5 Oct 2023
a pharmacologist known for refusing FDA approval of thalidomide, preventing a US tragedy
person opioid epidemic
+2
The Day the Music Died — 3 books
first published 27 Oct 2015 added 2 Aug 2022
refers to the plane crash in 1959 that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson
event
9 dash line — 13 books
first published 27 Oct 2015
a demarcation used by China to claim territories in the South China Sea
+7
Fairphone — 12 books
first published 27 Oct 2015 added 5 Oct 2023
a social enterprise company that aims to develop smartphones with ethical considerations, such as fair labor conditions and conflict-free materials
+6
Charlie Hebdo massacre — 15 books
first published 19 Oct 2015 added 7 Aug 2023
a terrorist attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in 2015
+9
r/findbostonbombers — 3 books
first published 1 Oct 2015 added 15 Aug 2023
a controversial Reddit thread that aimed to identify the perpetrators of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
Jeremy Corbyn — 151 books
first published 30 Sep 2015 added 6 Oct 2023
a British politician who served as the leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2019.
person politician
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opioid epidemic — 130 books
first published 28 Sep 2015 added 26 Oct 2021
a public health crisis involving the excessive use and abuse of opioid drugs
opioid epidemic
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crewed spaceflight — 8 books
first published 27 Sep 2015 added 12 Mar 2023
space travel with human astronauts on board
+2
Kintsugi — 16 books
first published 26 Sep 2015 added 5 Oct 2023
a Japanese art form where broken ceramics are repaired with lacquer mixed with precious metals
+10
data is not the new oil — 7 books
first published 21 Sep 2015 added 21 Jun 2022
a phrase challenging the idea that data is the most valuable resource, emphasizing differences such as renewability and the ethical implications of data collection.
+1
Valery Gerasimov — 13 books
first published 21 Sep 2015 added 13 May 2017
Russian General of the Army, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and first Deputy Defence Minister
person
+7
transport as a service — 6 books
first published 14 Sep 2015
the shift from personal vehicle ownership to on-demand transportation services
multi-sided market — 25 books
first published 14 Sep 2015
an intermediary economic platform having multiple distinct user groups that provide each other with network benefits
+19
John Zimmer (Lyft cofounder) — 21 books
first published 14 Sep 2015 added 29 May 2022
an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the ride-sharing company Lyft
person
+15
Citymapper — 15 books
first published 17 Aug 2015 added 8 Nov 2023
public transport app and mapping service, providing route planning across various modes of transport like buses, trains, and cycling in cities around the world, integrating real-time data and user-friendly features
+9
Yitang Zhang — 1 books
first published 17 Aug 2015 added 7 Nov 2022
a Chinese-American mathematician who made a significant breakthrough in number theory, specifically in the theory of prime numbers
person
remote work: asynchronous communication — 9 books
first published 13 Aug 2015 added 18 Oct 2020
a work arrangement where team members communicate without the expectation of immediate response
+3
WeWork — 89 books
first published 13 Aug 2015 added 17 Jun 2021
an American company offering shared workspaces and office services, known for its rapid growth and subsequent controversies.
+83
Social Justice Warrior — 60 books
first published 14 Jul 2015 added 8 Nov 2022
a pejorative term for individuals promoting socially progressive views, often used sarcastically
+54
Wikidata — 3 books
first published 10 Jul 2015 added 27 Oct 2021
a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike, linked to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
Machynlleth Comedy Festival — 1 books
first published 1 Jul 2015 added 13 Feb 2024
The Boring Company — 13 books
first published 18 May 2015 added 25 Oct 2025
+7
robo advisor — 17 books
first published 14 May 2015 added 10 Nov 2022
an automated financial adviser that provides investment advice based on algorithms
+11
null island — 3 books
first published 2 May 2015 added 21 Jun 2022
a fictional place located at zero latitude and zero longitude, often a default in mapping errors
side hustle — 101 books
first published 24 Apr 2015 added 28 Nov 2017
an additional job that a person takes in addition to their primary job in order to supplement their income
+95
Port Arthur massacre — 3 books
first published 15 Apr 2015 added 1 Dec 2023 event
Richard Hendricks — 6 books
first published 7 Apr 2015 added 13 Feb 2022
a fictional character in the television series Silicon Valley, depicted as a software engineer
fictional character
hyperautomation — 1 books
first published 7 Apr 2015 added 10 Aug 2024
birth tourism — 6 books
first published 1 Apr 2015 added 31 Jul 2022
the practice of travelling to another country for the purpose of giving birth there
Mr. Money Mustache — 13 books
first published 19 Mar 2015 added 17 Oct 2022
a financial blog focused on achieving early retirement through frugal living and investing
+7
transportation-network company — 21 books
first published 17 Mar 2015
a company that uses online platforms to connect passengers with drivers using their own vehicles
+15
gig workers — 83 books
first published 17 Mar 2015 added 10 Jan 2024
+77
Amazon Robotics — 22 books
first published 15 Mar 2015 added 22 Aug 2023
a subsidiary of Amazon focusing on automation solutions for its fulfilment centres
+16
data storytelling — 6 books
first published 10 Mar 2015 added 17 Nov 2023
translating complex data analyses into understandable, engaging narratives, often involving visual elements like charts or graphs, to effectively communicate insights and findings to a broader audience
89up — 2 books
first published 12 Feb 2015 added 25 Oct 2025
Silicon Lagoon — 2 books
first published 10 Feb 2015 added 29 Dec 2023
ImageNet competition — 27 books
first published 3 Feb 2015 added 12 Jul 2017
an annual competition in computer vision where algorithms are evaluated on the ImageNet dataset
+21
Brian Armstrong — 14 books
first published 27 Jan 2015 added 26 Jun 2024 person cryptocurrency
+8
HBO: Silicon Valley — 43 books
first published 27 Jan 2015 added 30 Oct 2023
2014–2019 American television series
+37
Silicon Savannah — 7 books
first published 27 Jan 2015 added 29 Dec 2023
+1
Uber and Lyft — 166 books
first published 27 Jan 2015
+160
gigafactory — 40 books
first published 20 Jan 2015 added 28 Oct 2022
a term coined by Elon Musk to describe Tesla's large-scale battery manufacturing facilities.
+34
Anne Hidalgo — 25 books
first published 13 Jan 2015 added 27 Nov 2023
French politician, mayor of Paris
person politician
+19
tech bro — 71 books
first published 5 Jan 2015 added 26 Oct 2021
a stereotype describing a young man in the tech industry with an arrogant or entitled attitude
+65
chargemaster — 3 books
first published 5 Jan 2015 added 15 Jun 2024
gig economy — 236 books
first published 5 Jan 2015
a labour market characterized by short-term contracts and freelance work
+230
tiling window manager — 1 books
first published 2015 added 7 Nov 2020
a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more common approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor
earning to give — 17 books
first published 2015 added 15 Aug 2024
earning money to donate or give away
+11
William MacAskill — 23 books
first published 2015 added 18 Nov 2022
a philosopher and one of the founders of the effective altruism movement
person
+17
cost per available seat-mile — 1 books
first published 10 Nov 2014 added 27 Oct 2021
a common unit of measurement used to compare the efficiency of various airlines
Brexit referendum — 172 books
first published 6 Nov 2014 added 25 Oct 2021
a public vote in the UK in 2016 that resulted in a decision to leave the European Union
politics
+166
stable marriage problem — 3 books
first published 4 Nov 2014 added 25 Mar 2022
a mathematical problem of matching members of two groups so that no pair would prefer another partner
deferred acceptance — 5 books
first published 4 Nov 2014
an algorithmic solution for matching participants in two-sided markets, such as students and schools
Dario Amodei — 15 books
first published 1 Nov 2014 added 20 Nov 2023
CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, Ph.D. Princeton University 2011
generative artificial intelligence person
+9
Government Digital Service — 10 books
first published 17 Oct 2014 added 16 Jun 2024
Unit of the UK government charged with digital government services
+4
Planet Labs — 16 books
first published 17 Oct 2014 added 9 Jul 2023
an American private Earth imaging company that deploys small satellites to capture imagery of the Earth
+10
distributed ledger — 65 books
first published 17 Oct 2014
a type of database that is spread across multiple sites and participants, commonly associated with blockchain technology
+59
Dominic Cummings — 47 books
first published 6 Oct 2014 added 15 Oct 2020
a British political strategist best known for his role as adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his involvement in the Brexit campaign
politics person
+41
Eddie Murphy rule — 1 books
first published 5 Oct 2014 added 24 Dec 2023
labour management system — 1 books
first published 29 Sep 2014 added 15 Oct 2020
software used to schedule, monitor, and manage staff, often in logistics and manufacturing environments
Blockadia — 2 books
first published 15 Sep 2014 added 26 Sep 2023
a term to describe non-violent direct action movements that aim to block new fossil fuel projects
renewable energy transition — 10 books
first published 15 Sep 2014 added 15 Oct 2020
the ongoing energy transition which aims at replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy
climate change
+4
Fossil Capital — 13 books
first published 15 Sep 2014 added 22 Feb 2025
+7
climate fiction — 6 books
first published 15 Sep 2014 added 3 Oct 2023
a literary genre that deals with climate change and its impact on humanity
Eroom's law — 7 books
first published 15 Sep 2014 added 5 Oct 2023
the observation that drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time, the opposite of Moore's Law
+1
Rutger Bregman — 33 books
first published 13 Sep 2014 added 26 Jan 2023
a Dutch historian and author, known for books like 'Utopia for Realists' that explore progressive ideas such as a universal basic income
person
+27
inflight wifi — 1 books
first published 8 Sep 2014
Palmer Luckey — 24 books
first published 3 Sep 2014 added 11 Feb 2026
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
person
+18
Liz Truss — 33 books
first published 3 Sep 2014 added 8 Sep 2024
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2022
person politician
+27
investor state dispute settlement — 18 books
first published 3 Sep 2014
a system that allows foreign investors to resolve disputes with host countries through arbitration rather than local courts
+12
Bank of Mum and Dad — 9 books
first published 3 Sep 2014 added 8 Sep 2024
+3
instagram had 13 employees when purchased by Facebook — 11 books
first published 3 Sep 2014 added 31 Jan 2024
+5
techlash — 25 books
first published 31 Aug 2014 added 14 Aug 2023
a term describing the public's negative reaction to and increased scrutiny of big tech companies
+19
Kuwabatake Sanjuro: assassination market — 5 books
first published 20 Aug 2014
a prediction market where any party can place a bet using anonymous electronic money on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they "guess" the date accurately
Cody Wilson — 11 books
first published 20 Aug 2014 added 14 Nov 2021
an American crypto-anarchist best known for promoting the 3D printing of firearms
+5
nudge theory — 14 books
first published 21 Jul 2014 added 3 Oct 2023
a psychological concept that proposes positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions can influence behaviour
+8
hyperscale — 16 books
first published 13 Jul 2014 added 9 Oct 2023
refers to computing environments that can quickly scale in response to demand, commonly used in large data centres
+10
microservices — 45 books
first published 13 Jul 2014 added 15 Oct 2020
an architectural style where an application is composed of loosely coupled, independently deployable services
+39
Marathon des Sables — 8 books
first published 1 Jul 2014 added 24 Dec 2023
six-day, 251 km ultramarathon
+2
unconventional monetary instruments — 3 books
first published 23 Jun 2014
financial tools used by central banks beyond standard policy measures, like quantitative easing
Yves Bouvier — 4 books
first published 14 Jun 2014 added 17 Oct 2024
Swiss art dealer
person
California high-speed rail — 6 books
first published 9 Jun 2014 added 27 Oct 2021
a publicly funded high-speed rail system under construction in the U.S. state of California
2021 United States Capitol attack — 87 books
first published 2 Jun 2014 added 2 Nov 2021
On January 6, 2021, a mob of 2,000–2,500 supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
politics event
+81
CDC contaminated tests — 9 books
first published 19 May 2014 added 29 Dec 2023
+3
Bitcoin Ponzi scheme — 12 books
first published 14 May 2014 added 10 Jul 2021
a fraudulent investment operation using Bitcoin, where returns are paid to earlier investors using capital from newer investors
+6
Wave and Pay — 4 books
first published 14 May 2014
a form of contactless payment using RFID or NFC technology
Wikivoyage — 3 books
first published 13 May 2014 added 27 Oct 2021
a free web-based travel guide, part of the Wikimedia Foundation projects
Hyperloop — 65 books
first published 22 Apr 2014
a proposed new mode of passenger and freight transportation using a sealed tube and reduced air pressure
+59
Silicon Allee — 3 books
first published 22 Apr 2014 added 29 Dec 2023
Abacus Federal Savings — 1 books
first published 8 Apr 2014 added 30 Oct 2023
community bank primarily serving the Chinese-American community in New York City, known for its personal banking services, small business loans, and involvement in a notable legal case featured in the documentary "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail"
Chris Urmson — 23 books
first published 31 Mar 2014
Canadian engineer, academic, and entrepreneur known for his work on self-driving car technology
+17
Caroline Criado-Perez — 22 books
first published 4 Mar 2014 added 24 Mar 2025
British journalist and author
person
+16
mimetic desire — 13 books
first published 4 Mar 2014 added 6 Jan 2025
+7
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters — 22 books
first published 4 Mar 2014
a phrase critiquing perceived shortcomings in technological innovation, often attributed to entrepreneur Peter Thiel
+16
decentralised finance — 23 books
first published 4 Mar 2014 added 7 Oct 2023
the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies to create financial systems that operate without central authorities
+17
security information and event management — 4 books
first published 23 Feb 2014 added 9 Dec 2023
subsection within the field of computer security, where software products and services combine security information management and security event management