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The 'Crime Of The 20th Century' Was Made Possible Thanks To A New Invention: The Rental Car
Jalopnik via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRoaring ’20s Chicago was the epicenter of a wave of American inventions, like a new, more violent...
Richard L. Millington Synge Nobel Prize Medal to Be Auctioned
Coinweek· 19 hours agoMillington Synge in 1952 for his invention of partition chromatography will be auctioned on May 30 by Nate D. Sanders Auctions. Partition chromatography, developed by Synge ...
Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is still...
CNN via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoThough the dangers of leaded gasoline and CFCs are now well-known, their inventor was once lauded as...
Research at the RBML | Glenda Sluga uses the Wellington Koo papers to tell a story of economic...
Columbia University News· 4 days agoProfessor Glenda Sluga, author of The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe After Napoleon, recently visited the RBML to extend her research on the intellectual ...
How the romantic institution props up a racialized dating landscape
UC Newsroom· 2 days agoUC Santa Barbara Professor of Black studies Sabrina Strings' new book “The End of Love: Racism,...
Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
Ars Technica· 15 hours agoMinnesota was previously one of about 20 states that imposed significant restrictions on municipal...
It Used to Cost $50,000. Now Almost Anyone Can Try It Out. Unfortunately, I Loved It.
Slate via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOcean surfing is devilishly unstandardized. No two waves—when you are, again, lucky enough to have...
OPINION | DANA KELLEY: Inventive improvement | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 1 day agoOne of the biggest lesson examples of this is the decline and fall of retail behemoth Sears Roebuck...
Stanley bottle craze? This guy was collecting before it was cool.
San Antonio Express-News· 3 days agoThe 59-year-old San Antonian doesn’t go gaga for the latest Quencher, the viral Stanley tumbler teen...
AI's Cozy Crony Capitalism
Reason.com via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoGenerative AI's Wild West days may be drawing to a close. This is when invention, expansion, and growth can occur unconstrained by regulation while...