Showing posts with label invention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label invention. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Rory Sutherland’s 10 Rules of Alchemy

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Rory Sutherland is a vice president at Ogilvy in the UK. His YouTube videos advertise and promote the powers of myth, emotion, creativity, a...
Monday, September 1, 2025

AMERICAN LABOR DAY 2025: Why I Work

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These quotations are from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, most of them spoken by the story's hero, Howard Roark.   “I have, let’s say, si...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

Focus on Simon Georg Ploessl

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The Ploessl ocular (“eyepiece”) is easily the most popular design in the hobby of astronomy. Regardless of focal length, from 40 mm to 4 mm,...
Monday, September 7, 2020

The Pencil: History, Design, and Circumstance

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The book opens and closes with the fact that the pencil’s ubiquity rendered it invisible. On pages 5 and 346 the author tells of being unabl...
Monday, August 31, 2020

The Fountainhead: an exploded view of one scene

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We lose the past too easily. Ayn Rand was born in 1905. In The Fountainhead , anyone of mature professional status 1922-1942 would have been...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Atlatl

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The throwing stick was invented about 30,000 years ago. It extends the arm giving force (as range and speed) to a spear. Used widely across...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

The Status of ORIGINAL Property

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Original property is newly invented or newly discovered.   It had no previous owner.   In fact, it did not exist – or its existenc...