Newton's discoveries of centripetal and centrifugal forces have a direct connection to geopolitics. Define these two discoveries, then look at both...
Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces: The Balkanization of India Two more important concepts discussed in Chapter 4 of The Human Mosaic are centripetal and centrifugal forces. These terms, borrowed from the physical sciences, describe the forces that act to unify and dismantle political units. An ...
Wikipedia provides a great example of the formative power of the web’s centripetal force. The popular online encyclopedia is less the “sum” of human knowledge (a ridiculous idea to begin with) than the black hole of human knowledge. At heart a vast exercise in cut-and-paste paraphrasing ...