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2,703 concepts

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Vesna Vulović — 3 books
first published 7 Oct 2010 added 29 Dec 2016
Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute
my TED talk — 12 books
first published 5 Oct 2010 added 7 Oct 2024
Rory Sutherland — 16 books
first published 30 Sep 2010
intermittent fasting — 45 books
first published 30 Sep 2010 added 27 Feb 2024
a diet that cycles between a period of fasting and non-fasting
online collectivism — 5 books
first published 28 Sep 2010
Book of Ingenious Devices — 3 books
first published 28 Sep 2010
an Arabic-language book about mechanical devices, written during the Islamic Golden Age
Julian Assange — 131 books
first published 28 Sep 2010
Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)
croissantification — 2 books
first published 27 Sep 2010 added 9 Feb 2024
FOSDEM — 5 books
first published 23 Sep 2010 added 2 Dec 2022
annual event in Brussels centered on free and open source software development
Climategate — 28 books
first published 22 Sep 2010
Hans Island — 5 books
first published 22 Sep 2010
a small, uninhabited barren rock in the Arctic Ocean, the sovereignty of which is disputed between Canada and Denmark
medical bankruptcy — 20 books
first published 7 Sep 2010
bankruptcy declared due to unmanageable medical bills, often in contexts where healthcare is not universally provided.
The Giving Pledge — 39 books
first published 7 Sep 2010 added 19 Jan 2024
4chan — 132 books
first published 24 Aug 2010 added 15 Oct 2020
English-language imageboard website
Galaxy Zoo — 17 books
first published 16 Aug 2010
crowdsourced astronomy project
Clive Stafford Smith — 7 books
first published 2 Aug 2010
British attorney
2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013 — 50 books
first published 2 Aug 2010
Kinder Surprise — 10 books
first published 31 Jul 2010 added 24 Sep 2023
Brand of chocolate egg
WebSocket — 39 books
first published 23 Jul 2010 added 15 Oct 2020
computer network protocol
Caribbean Basin Initiative — 6 books
first published 20 Jul 2010 added 11 Aug 2023
skeuomorphism — 22 books
first published 14 Jul 2010 added 22 Dec 2022
a design principle in which interface objects mimic their real-world counterparts, such as a digital calendar resembling a paper one.
Jason Scott: textfiles.com — 8 books
first published 5 Jul 2010
Section 230 — 58 books
first published 5 Jul 2010 added 28 Jun 2024
US legal legislation of Internet sites
Paul Volcker talking about ATMs — 19 books
first published 22 Jun 2010 added 26 Oct 2021
Scaled Composites — 21 books
first published 1 Jun 2010 added 10 Nov 2021
American aerospace company
Demis Hassabis — 73 books
first published 31 May 2010 added 22 Aug 2023
CEO and co-founder of DeepMind
name-letter effect — 2 books
first published 31 May 2010 added 4 Jul 2022
measure of self-esteem
material flow analysis — 4 books
first published 12 May 2010 added 8 Oct 2023
analytical method to quantify flows and stocks of materials or substances in a well-defined system
printed gun — 22 books
first published 11 May 2010 added 14 Nov 2021
Growth in a Time of Debt — 27 books
first published 10 May 2010
balance sheet recession — 22 books
first published 10 May 2010
a type of economic recession that occurs when high levels of private sector debt cause individuals or companies to collectively focus on saving by paying down debt rather than spending or investing, causing economic growth to slow or decline
Les Trente Glorieuses — 36 books
first published 30 Apr 2010 added 23 Aug 2023
the thirty years from 1945 to 1975 following the end of the Second World War in France
Pershing Square Capital Management — 21 books
first published 26 Apr 2010 added 23 Nov 2021
American hedge fund
Shepard Fairey — 24 books
first published 6 Apr 2010 added 3 Feb 2025
DIY culture — 12 books
first published 28 Mar 2010 added 2 Dec 2022
a subculture that encourages individuals to create or repair things without direct assistance of experts
critique of consumerism — 8 books
first published 28 Mar 2010 added 20 Jun 2021
Enrique Peñalosa — 15 books
first published 28 Mar 2010 added 17 Jan 2017
Colombian politician
commodity super cycle — 20 books
first published 18 Mar 2010
lifestyle creep — 14 books
first published 18 Mar 2010 added 5 Oct 2022
social phenomenon
private sector deleveraging — 19 books
first published 18 Mar 2010
Google Chrome — 103 books
first published 15 Mar 2010
financial thriller — 16 books
first published 1 Mar 2010 added 12 Feb 2017
subgenre of thriller fiction
circulation of elites — 11 books
first published 19 Feb 2010 added 11 Aug 2017
political concept (the process of continuous exchange of elites from the opposition to the ruling coalition and vice versa)
Affordable Care Act / Obamacare — 380 books
first published 15 Feb 2010
US federal statute for healthcare cost reduction and coverage expansion
obamacare — 259 books
first published 15 Feb 2010
Financial Modelers Manifesto — 5 books
first published 2 Feb 2010 added 20 Oct 2020
Sergey Aleynikov — 9 books
first published 2 Feb 2010
I will remember that I didn’t make the world, and it doesn’t satisfy my equations — 4 books
first published 2 Feb 2010 added 1 Mar 2017
a phrase cautioning against the arrogance of thinking the world must conform to one's theoretical models or expectations
James Bridle — 19 books
first published 31 Jan 2010 added 4 Jan 2023
Chris Moneymaker — 7 books
first published 26 Jan 2010 added 14 Aug 2024
American poker player
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act — 10 books
first published 26 Jan 2010 added 14 Aug 2024
Brian Krebs — 30 books
first published 26 Jan 2010
American journalist specializing in cybersecurity
Boltzmann brain — 6 books
first published 14 Jan 2010 added 1 Jan 2024
drug harm reduction — 19 books
first published 5 Jan 2010 added 4 Dec 2022
Rat Park — 7 books
first published 5 Jan 2010 added 3 Nov 2017
peer-to-peer rental — 10 books
first published 2 Jan 2010 added 24 May 2017
collaborative consumption — 47 books
first published 2 Jan 2010
economic and social systems that enable shared access to goods, services, data and talent
nonsequential writing — 3 books
first published 2 Jan 2010
new new economy — 3 books
first published 2 Jan 2010
billion-dollar mistake — 13 books
first published 2 Jan 2010 added 18 Apr 2022
paperclip maximiser — 46 books
first published 2010 added 12 Dec 2022
thought experiment to illustrate existential risk posed by artificial intelligence
billionaire class — 34 books
first published 2010 added 18 Jan 2024
Boston Dynamics — 44 books
first published 2010 added 12 Feb 2022
engineering and robotics design company
optogenetics — 27 books
first published 2010 added 26 Jun 2024
battlefield drones — 49 books
first published 2010 added 5 Nov 2023
Stuxnet — 83 books
first published 2010
collaborative economy — 28 books
first published 31 Dec 2009
nowcasting — 12 books
first published 9 Dec 2009 added 27 Aug 2023
Dunning–Kruger effect — 26 books
first published 1 Dec 2009 added 27 May 2022
cognitive bias in which incompetent people tend to assess themselves as skilled
Infrastructure as a Service — 32 books
first published 1 Dec 2009
cloud computing service model
platform as a service — 43 books
first published 19 Nov 2009
category of cloud computing services
Air France Flight 447 — 20 books
first published 10 Nov 2009
2009 Air France flight crash into Atlantic Ocean, no survivors
Bernard Ziegler — 2 books
first published 10 Nov 2009 added 14 Feb 2017
a French aerospace engineer known for his work on Airbus aircraft
Wunderkammern — 5 books
first published 10 Nov 2009
collection of notable objects
Silicon Wadi — 6 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 29 Dec 2023
area with a high concentration of high-tech industries in Israel
unit 8200 — 22 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 8 Aug 2023
Israeli Intelligence Corps SIGINT unit
deep-ocean exploration — 5 books
first published 3 Nov 2009 added 23 Nov 2023
tactical urbanism — 16 books
first published 30 Oct 2009 added 8 Nov 2023
Low-cost, temporary improvement to a city
Ben Bernanke: helicopter money — 27 books
first published 29 Oct 2009
a term referring to an unconventional monetary policy tool involving the distribution of new money to the public
Level 39 — 3 books
first published 27 Oct 2009 added 27 Oct 2023
Level 39 of the Backrooms
Joshua Gans and Andrew Leigh — 3 books
first published 19 Oct 2009 added 26 Feb 2017
Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths — 1 books
first published 19 Oct 2009 added 26 Feb 2017
Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid — 52 books
first published 15 Oct 2009
global rebalancing — 8 books
first published 12 Oct 2009
the adjustment of economic, political, or social systems on a global scale, often aimed at reducing disparities between countries or regions.
David Strachan — 9 books
first published 30 Sep 2009 added 1 Mar 2017
Cambridge Five — 18 books
first published 21 Sep 2009 added 7 Oct 2023
former ring of spies in the United Kingdom
cargo bike — 29 books
first published 15 Sep 2009 added 7 Oct 2024
HESCO bastion — 3 books
first published 31 Aug 2009
gabion primarily used for flood control and military fortifications
put on your own oxygen mask first before helping others — 14 books
first published 31 Aug 2009 added 10 Oct 2024
image classification — 34 books
first published 25 Aug 2009 added 19 Nov 2023
set of methods to group images
summit fever — 4 books
first published 25 Aug 2009 added 8 Jun 2022
2022 film directed by Julian Gilbey
Chris Wanstrath — 9 books
first published 17 Aug 2009 added 21 Feb 2017
co-founder of GitHub, a web-based hosting service for version control
Jono Bacon — 4 books
first published 1 Aug 2009
British writer and software engineer
citation needed — 15 books
first published 1 Aug 2009
a tag commonly used to indicate that a statement needs an additional reference or source for verification
DevOps — 68 books
first published 1 Aug 2009 added 15 Oct 2020
fear index — 22 books
first published 27 Jul 2009 added 27 Mar 2022
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Bullingdon Club — 24 books
first published 22 Jul 2009 added 17 Oct 2022
exclusive society at Oxford University infamous for bad behavior
coastline paradox / Richardson effect — 7 books
first published 21 Jul 2009 added 14 Nov 2020
Bedminster, Bristol — 8 books
first published 14 Jul 2009 added 6 Oct 2024
Cal Newport — 33 books
first published 12 Jul 2009
American computer scientist, academic lecturer and writer