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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,…
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
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Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients…
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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
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Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
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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…
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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101…
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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects…
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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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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one…
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Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
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Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners…
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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
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As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went…
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I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think…
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My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York…
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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,…
— Charles C. Mann
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I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two.…
— Beatrice Wood
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I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child
— Kathleen Flinn
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Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October…
— Babe Ruth
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