In the 1940s an advertising executive named Alex Osborn (He’s the guy who coined the term, ‘brainstorming’), recognized that this lack of adult imagination was a problem, so he came up with something he called, “creative problem solving.” The idea is that imagination can be cultivated...
Night after night Eugene Aserinsky had been working late. He’d dragged an ancient brain-wave machine, an Offner Dynograph, from the basement to the physiology lab on the second floor of Abbott Hall at the University of Chicago. He had tinkered with it long enough to think it m...
As a lucid dreamer, you may sometimes wonder where the term "lucid dream" originates. After all, it's likely not the immediate choice of words you'd pick if asked to name the experience yourself - many would probably opt for something along the lines of "conscious dream" or "dreams of...
Trungpa coined the term crazy wisdom. Some of his teaching methods and actions were the topic of controversy during his lifetime and afterwards. Birthplace: Qinghai, China Charles King Dec. at 62 (1895-1957) Charles King was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. King began his ...
1974 – Dixon coined the term “zero-turn radius” with its mid-mount residential mower. Their mechanical cone-drive CVT transmission made mowing fun! 1980 – Walker introduces the first compact commercial zero-turn. If you want the very best cut the Walker is still the mower to beat today...
coined the term “Sponge City,” his body of work is driven by an ecological approach to recovering the natural landscape of cities, and working with water rather than against it. While these projects may be rooted in ecology, the designer’s touch for adding a flare of tasteful manmade ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters TwitterWhatsAppEmailCopy Link Wikipedia’s Bias and the Murray Gell-Mann Effect Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, coined the term after meeting the famous MIT physicist Murray Gell-Mann to describe the act of feeling skeptical...
Well, sociologists will tell you it’s because we do have a relationship with the public people to whom we pay attention. In 1956, social scientists Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl coined the term “parasocial interactions” to describe the “intimacy at a distance” fans feel with perform...
I shall discuss some exceptions, chimeric animals and the emergence of selfish cells that colonize new individuals, for which, from his studies of chimerism in the fruiting bodies of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium mucoroides, Leo Buss coined the term somatic cell parasitism [1]. My ...
Who made the first geologic map of Scotland? Who has circumnavigated Antarctica? Who discovered the Blue Mountains? Who discovered the South Sandwich Islands? Who discovered Lake Eyre? Who discovered the Ordovician-Silurian extinction? Who coined the term ocean acidification? Who discovered Macquarie ...