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All the most important technologies that have driven growth — what economists call general purpose technologies — trace their funding back to government. These are the technologies whose effects permeate across large parts of the economy, not just a single sector, and nurture decades of growth. These include aviation technologies; space technologies; semiconductors, the Internet;…
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101 objects that made America
jkottke: This month, Smithsonian magazine tells the story of America using 101 objects drawn from the 19 musuems and research centers of the Smithsonian Institution. Among the objects are the original Star Spangled Banner flag, the passenger pigeon, the polio vaccine, the pill, and Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity. A companion book, The…
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101 objects that made America
jkottke: This month, Smithsonian magazine tells the story of America using 101 objects drawn from the 19 musuems and research centers of the Smithsonian Institution. Among the objects are the original Star Spangled Banner flag, the passenger pigeon, the polio vaccine, the pill, and Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity. A companion book, The…
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seedtoshirt: New York, New York – We went to the fiber lab at the Fashion Institute of Technology where they’re going to do some wicked testing on our shirts. Unfortunately, we had to sacrifice a shirt for science. Here’s a look at the T-shirts analyzed right down to the yarn (magnified at 48x). (@qdbui/NPR)