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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
The internet loves to poke fun at people who got it wrong, but those ridiculed forecasters might get the last laugh.
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

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

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...
15 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 Boyers.
14 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...
150 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

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,...
120 months ago

Handbook of Natural Philosophy, Volume 3

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