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How Julian Simon and Dionysius Lardner Proved the Doomsday Alarmists Wrong
Foundation for Economic Education
Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
79 months ago
On Asphyxiation From Trains and Other Inaccurate Predictions
WIRED
“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia,” said the Irish writer Dionysius Lardner in 1830.
19 months ago
Dion Boucicault | Victorian theatre, melodrama, comedy
Britannica
Dion Boucicault was an Irish-American playwright and actor, a major influence on the form and content of American drama.
1 month ago
Creating Babbage's dream machine: How we built the Difference Engine
New Scientist
Popular myth has it that 19th-century technology was too crude to enable Babbage to complete his Difference Engines. But working to his specifications,...
64 months ago
30 Future Predictions That Were Goofily Off Base
Cracked.com
We understand that it's impossible to predict the future, and all of us have the capacity to say something truly stupid about the way we...
14 months ago
Breakingviews - Victorian rail mania has lessons for AI investors
Reuters
The excitement about artificial intelligence is matched only by the technology's voracious investment needs. Total investment in AI is set...
3 months ago
Today in women’s history: Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” published
People's World
Today in women's history in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
139 months ago
15 Impossibly Silly Predictions (Made By Serious People)
Cracked.com
Many future predictions have been made throughout history by many people, some of which have proven to be eerily accurate.
46 months ago
Frankenstein, el monstruo más famoso de la historia
De10 Sports
Todos lo conocemos y a la novela que lo hizo famoso pero, ¿qué sabemos de su autora? Mary Shelley nació el 30 de agosto de 1797…
13 months ago
Lo que quizás no sabías de las predicciones
BBC
Hasta los grandes se equivocan, y cuando lo hacen, a menudo erran en grande. Desde Albert Einstein hasta el fundador de Warner Brothers,...
119 months ago