Review: ‘Fifty Inventions’ Falls Short of Its Ambitions – New York Times


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Review: 'Fifty Inventions' Falls Short of Its Ambitions
New York Times
The subtle name change from podcast to book — “Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy (Riverhead: 2017)” — reflects an emphasis on humility. Mr. Harford repeatedly emphasizes that he is not trying “to identify the 50 most economically …

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The Invention of the White People

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. There are no white people. There are no black people. There are no red, yellow, brown, blue, purple, crimson or any other colour people.
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Seattle nonprofit celebrates 40 years of life-saving inventions – KING5.com


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Seattle nonprofit celebrates 40 years of life-saving inventions
KING5.com
In a South Lake Union work shop, lives are being saved one invention at a time. "There's not much we can't make, test, evaluate, produce," said Mike Eisenstein of the 40-year-old nonprofit, PATH. The workshop is where a team of ten — many of them, …

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Harvey Could Be Trump’s First Crisis That Isn’t His Own Invention

WASHINGTON ? Having lurched from one crisis to the next, starting the day he was inaugurated, President Donald Trump could be facing the first real one of his presidency not of his own making: Hurricane Harvey. Trump has inflamed relations with his own …
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The most important invention from every state and D.C.

The US has produced some of the world’s most important inventions but which are the most significant to come out of each state? Using info collated by MidAmerica Nazarene University in Kansas, we take a look at the most notable inventions that have emerged …
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Invention Sheds teaching kids hands-on skills

A Tyneside company is hoping to help fill the region’s skills gap by placing Invention Sheds in primary schools across the North East. House of Objects is teaching children to use tools, build toys and learn problem solving skills at an early age, by …
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