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...
The whole point of inventing the arbirtrary term of a googol was to highlight the difference between unimaginably large numbers and infinity. That is why Kasner coined the term in “Mathematics and the Imagination.” http://books.google.com/books?id=Ad8hAx-6m9oC&lpg=PP1&dq=Mathematics%...
Black legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 as a metaphor for the multiple, interlocking oppressions Black women in the U.S. experience as opposed to single-axis systems such as sexism, racism, and classism [28]. Expanding on the concept in a 1991 ...
He is known, in particular, for inventing the term operads and for the May spectral sequence. Age: 85 Allan Gibbard Philosopher Allan Gibbard (born 1942) is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Gibbard has ...
The term “neurodiversity” was coined by Australian autism rights activist Judy Singer in the late 1990s. A person on the autism spectrum herself, she used the term to describe the diversity of human brains and minds and to promote the idea that neurological differences should be recognized and...
Did you know the term “McCarthyism” was the spawn of the Reds? “..to put “McCarthyism†in perspective, the word itself was coined by the KGB in Moscow and first used in The Daily Worker, the communist party’s newspaper. The campaign against ...
you may recall, came from the Italian Medici family. The Medicis were among the most notorious Italian families, and their ranks included four popes and even more monarchs. They sponsored intellectuals such as Niccolo Machiavelli...you know, the guy who literally coined the term “Machiavellian....
Not to be confused with rapperLil' Kim, who first coined the nickname of Queen Bee in the '90s, Beyoncé is often referred to as Queen Bey. She first received the title in 2011, after she officially branded her fans as the Beyhive byadopting the...
A gala celebrated the opening of “Sade: Marquis of the Shadows, Prince of the Enlightment” at the Museum of Letters and Manuscripts.Tomas van Houtryve The Count de Sade, the modern descendantof the Marquis de Sade, whose rabid erotic works inspired the term sadism for sexual cruelty, reside...
Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.[19] He ...