Will the New Tech of 2012 Prove as Successful as the Tech of 1912? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
february 2012 by nijst
"Sometimes, I look at the last century and I think, the most underrated part of their technologies were that they required lots of people doing bearable stuff for decent money."
economy
history
february 2012 by nijst
Twitter's Fifth Beatle Tells His Side of the Story - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
april 2011 by nijst
But the world is a lot more contingent than that. Nine times out of ten, Twitter would have failed. Not because Twitter's a bad service but because that's what most startups do, and I don't think we give enough credit to contingency and luck. Instead, people want to figure out the secret of Facebook or of Twitter or of bigger things, like the Russian revolution or American democracy. But the deeper you look, the more you know, the less history seems to give some clear-cut answers about who founded what or why something succeeded.
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history
from instapaper
april 2011 by nijst
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
april 2011 by nijst
For example, a Ladies’ Home Journal article in June 1918 said, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.” Other sources said blue was flattering for blonds, pink for brunettes; or blue was for blue-eyed babies, pink for brown-eyed babies, according to Paoletti.
clothing
fashion
history
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april 2011 by nijst
FRASER » Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
march 2011 by nijst
75 Years of American Finance: A Graphic Presentation 1861-193
economy
history
design
infographics
march 2011 by nijst
Clarence B Jones on The Best Speeches of All Time | FiveBooks | The Browser
march 2011 by nijst
The ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, the portion that is most talked about, was totally spontaneous and extemporaneous. It wasn’t written.
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history
from instapaper
march 2011 by nijst
After 500 years of Western predominance, Niall Ferguson argues, the world is tilting back to the East.
november 2010 by nijst
"If I had to summarize China's new grand strategy, I would do it, Chinese-style, as the Four "Mores": Consume more, import more, invest abroad more and innovate more. In each case, a change of economic strategy pays a handsome geopolitical dividend."
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history
economy
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november 2010 by nijst
Top 10 Lost Technologies | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net
august 2010 by nijst
"None of this would be a problem, but now that NASA is planning a return trip to the moon, a lot of the information about how the engineers of the 1960s made the voyages work is invaluable. Amazingly, the records remain so disorganized and incomplete that NASA has resorted to reverse engineering existing spacecraft parts that they have lying around in junkyards as a way of understanding just how the Gemini and Apollo programs managed to work so well."
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history
august 2010 by nijst
The next President of the United States - The Big Picture - Boston.com
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november 2008 by nijst
politics blog news history ART images obama 2008 Pictures photo article photography barackobama press election picture election2008 president bigpicture boston barack-obama election08 gallery photojournalism website thebigpicture
november 2008 by nijst
Clinton advised to portray Obama as foreign - Mike Allen - Politico.com
august 2008 by nijst
"Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), advised her to portray Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,” according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic magazine."
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august 2008 by nijst
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