Village women work hard and keep busy at all times. Even when socializing in groups outside their homes, women spin, weave, embroider, darn socks,
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purpose of art
The concept of art held by indigenous peoples of Indonesia is very different from that commonly held in the West. In Indonesia, artistic creativity
Goodyear on unfortunate necessity of patents
Having confined himself to these labors for so long a time, it would have been indeed grateful to the inventor if none of them
Newton falls to the South Sea Bubble
Then it fell apart, fast. However it had begun, by the end the South Sea Company had devolved into a pyramid scheme, the classic
david chang
Critical thinking, calm communication, rationality, levelheadedness: none of these traits has traditionally been valued in a kitchen. Or maybe they were, but we weren’t
Rothschild conservatism in business
The former had always been a good deal more cautious than his uncle, but the revolution, as we have seen, all but broke his
No one knows Newton’s work for two decades
In April 1667, Newton returned to his rooms at Trinity College. He had left two years earlier with the ink barely dry on his
Samuel Roberts
As to being executed for murder, he said he had no fear of that. He was not one of those pitiful sneaking wretches, who
Chris Miller
In 1989, Morita set out his views in a collection of essays titled The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First
techies as revolutionaries
Industry outsiders only dimly perceived how the world was changing, but Intel’s leaders knew that if they succeeded in drastically expanding the availability of