The latter emphasizes Santos Dumont's achievements based on a journalistic source that claims this pioneer did more for aviation than the Wright brothers. Paradoxically, in each language, the airplane was invented by a different person. Wikipedia is defined, on the platform's main page, as ‘a...
Today, the most often cited effect of Ebbinghaus’s research concerns his experiments described in Chapter 7, where the psychologist proposed a formula expressing the savings in relearning relative to the time passed from first learning a series of syllables. These savings were as high as 58% for...
another smoke. friston first became a heroic figure in academia for devising many of the most important tools that have made human brains legible to science. in 1990 he invented statistical parametric mapping, a computational technique that helps—as one neuroscientist put it—“squash and squish...
TheInternetevolvedfromARPANET(AdvancedResearchProjectsAgencyNetwork),aneffortsupportedbytheUnitedStatesDepartmentofDefense.ThedevelopersofARPANETwantedtomakecommunicationbetweenseparatecomputersystemsatvariousuniversitiesandresearchlaboratoriesmoreconvenient.SeealsoWhoinventedtheInternet?andWikipedia'sARPANETentry. Contraryto...
Importantly, we could not have invented or imagined these cues without reading the lyrics. 4. Catching the brain police with Frank Zappa 4.1. A brief biographical noteFootnote1 Frank Zappa was born in 1940. He was an American composer, bandleader, guitarist, and entrepreneur of Italian, French...
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.” - Albert Einstein
Paul Morphy, the embodiment of romantic and aggressive play. Photo:Wikipedia Morphy was the embodiment of all of these romantic and aggressive attacking ideas. During his tour of Europe, Morphy soundly trounced every major player in the world except Howard Staunton (who was past his prime and di...
One of my goals in purchasing sethholloway.com is to carve out my own niche on the Internet superhighway–the series of tubes invented by a politician from Tin-uh-see. However, as I google myself (which is even dirtier than it sounds) I can’t help but feel that my job is not yet...
The lead vocalist of Toots and the Maytals literally invented reggae, or at least gave it its name. Specifically, the genre took its name from his song “Do the Reggay,” the reggay then being the name of a dance craze in Jamaica; the word subsequently came to be applied to the nascent...
If you think back to the 2004 Juno Awards — the annual ceremony that’s basically Canada’s Grammys — the most surprising thing isn’t that Nickelback somehow took home two of those… Video Rewind Do you know who invented Ray-Ban’s Aviator glasses?