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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...
80 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.
20 months 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,...
65 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...
4 months ago
How to Be A Genuine Expert in Your Field
LifeHack
The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition lays out five distinct stages that all people must go through on their way to becoming experts.
21 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. Educated in England, Boucicault...
110 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...
140 months ago
20 Predictions From Smart People That Were Completely Wrong
Business Insider
"X-rays will prove to be a hoax." lord kelvin. WikiMedia Commons. - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883. Source: Wikipedia...
151 months ago
VOTE NOW: The Seven Wonders of the Railway
Rail Magazine
THE NOMINATIONS IN FULL: Barmouth Bridge. This under-publicised wooden viaduct – one of the longest on the network – symbolises survival...
73 months ago
The Story Behind a Pub Called The Confession Box
Dublin Town
The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old...
78 months ago