In he late 1600s Leibniz decided there was a need for a new, purer arithmetic than our common decimal (十进制) system. He got his inspiration from the 5000-year-old book that is at the heart of Chinese philosophy: the I-Ching, or Book of ChangesThis ancient text was su 52、ch an ...
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1992 was a landmark year in the development of the EC when it became a true common market as envisaged by the SingleEuropeanAct. Then on January 1, 1994 the European Union (EU) came into being on the strength of the Maastricht Treaty. 6.What is the most powerful institution of the EU...
KS: Now, what Scott was saying about the stock is true. It’s down 40% since the beginning of the year, or something like that, with Facebook. That’s a number of reasons but it has to do with Apple cutting off its oxygen, its business oxygen, which I applaud, although I don’...
In 1814, the steam locomotive (蒸汽机车) was invented. The first railway was completed in 1825. By 1870, Britain had about 21,700 kilometers of railroad. Meanwhile, it had also built a large merchant fleet, which carried British manufactured goods to all parts of the world. 随着这些发展,...
I always used to say that I don’t make predictions. But I was clearly deluding myself. If you are writing about the future the one thing that people seem to want beyond all else is a prediction about new things that will be invented and familiar things that will fade away. And the ...
I am a breast cancer survivor from last year, & the toxic treatment/meds I have been prescribed, which I have stopped taking are just as poisonous as the cancer to me. I was raised eating seafood, rare fat steaks, & loaded baked potatoes, but now i am striving for as much organic, ...
While they enable extraordinary digital services — from real-time patient data sharing between hospitals and insurance systems to global inventory tracking or election monitoring — the very convenience of APIs can also open up serious vulnerabilities. ...
They pay an amount called a premium for a certain amount of time—let’s say a year. The policy has a face value and gives the insurance holder protection in the event the home is damaged. What if, instead of a home, your asset was a stock or index investment? Similarly, if an inv...
Another was the spinning jenny, a contraption that could multiply the number of spindles that a single spinner could handle at the same time to weave cotton or wool.5 Perhaps the key invention of them all was the steam engine, an improved version of which was invented by Scottish engineer ...