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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to…

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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia,…
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients…
A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on…
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101…
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects…
Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this…

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