Why Matt Alt’s ‘Pure Invention’ Should Be Required Reading For Japanophiles
People often ask me why, as an American, I’m so interested in Japanese culture. This book finally provides me with an answer.
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Imagination fuels invention among students, gamers and researchers – Weekend Reading: July 28 edition
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) Visionary minds melded near and far this week – from …
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Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Why the Industrial Revolution Was British: Commerce, Induced Invention and the Scientific Revolution
What are the other places that Allen has in mind (since Hiero of Alexandria’s aeropile in which building a first generation “steam engine” would have been possible as a marvel? Weren’t there other roads to industrialization that involved technological …
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The ‘Simply Amazing’ Invention Aimed at Helping ‘Novices Learn to Play the Piano Without Reading Music’
An invention aimed at helping beginners learn how to play the piano took the Internet by storm this week after a video showing how it works was widely circulated. The device, formally called the Projected Instrument Augmentation System, was developed in …
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Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer backs Mirror’s We Love Reading campaign – Daily Mirror
For as long as I can remember books have been on the way out. Every new invention that came along was going to hammer the final nail into the coffin of literature. I imagine it started with moving pictures. Why would anyone read about a train when they …
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