calculator, completed—considered the first electronic computer.1947:Britain partitions India into two independent dominions: India and Pakistan. Dead Sea Scrolls found in Palestine. Invention of the transistor.1948:Mahatma Gandhi assassinated. State of Israel proclaimed under United Nations sanction. First...
Further technology-aided globalization and waves of deregulation, led by Reagan in the US and Thatcher in the UK in the 1980s allowedincome inequalityto grow particularly fast in advanced Western nations. Income, asset, and power inequalities will often grow in the first phase of application of ...
the opposite has happened. Arizona has grown less competitive and more reactionary. Every major statewide office has been captured by Republicans for the second straight time (see official results here).
it felt as if I had by some strange accid ent gained a place at a meeting of Greek God s as they oversaw, measured, and planned future events and the fates of nations and individuals in the world below. Given my naivety, everything was, of course, mixed up. Over the few days ...
Richard Feynman, Richard Thaler, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, six sigma, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, synthetic biology, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, Tim Cook: Apple, tulip mania, Wall-E, wikimedia commons, yie...
new nations sending them up for the first time (Iran and NK), old nations shooting their own down (China and the USA), and satellites running into each other * And of course the Norway Spiral [/quote] [quote:Anonymous Coward 913938] In its first six weeks of observations, it has disco...
It is long overdue that this intentional fraud be halted and those who perpetrated it be brought to justice for over 60 years of National Blood Libel against Germany and other nations through vicious lies and financial fraud. Two of the most important surveys of the Jewish question in Europe ...
Lawrence, Kansas is a hip town thanks to hosting two college campuses, the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. Apart from its bustling nightlife and culture scene, Lawrence also has pop culture ties—in 2020, it was officially named as the hometown of “Supernatural” le...