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These 9 Everyday Science Words Have Fascinating Origins

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We love words more than almost anything else here at Curiosity — anything else except for science, of course. So when a copy of Isaac Asimov’s “Words of Science” popped up at the office, we couldn’t have been more excited. We pulled some of our favorite words out of it and then went scouring the internet for more. These are the surprising origins of some of the science words you might use every day.

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These 10 Books Predicted (or Created) the Future

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Science fiction has a reputation as one of the less-serious forms of literature. But then again, it’s also the only genre that makes accurate predictions about the future on a regular basis. Sure, it’s not always exactly right, and sometimes it’s completely wrong (although we’re still hoping that First Contact Day is coming in 2063). Here are 10 examples of science fiction books that really did predict the future — and one or two that actually inspired the future they predicted.This article contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase one of these books by clicking through to Amazon, Curiosity will receive a portion of the sale. You’ll be helping us keep producing these articles, and we appreciate the support.

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The Return of Storytelling in a Digital Age – The Imaginative Conservative

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Podcast stories, like reading, have the advantage of engaging the audience’s imagination. And lest the technophobes among us decry the dominance of gadgets, rather than the gadgetry taking us into a brave new world, the technology is actually allowing us to participate in a much older form of literature: storytelling… (essay by Dwight Longenecker)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/return-storytelling-digital-age-dwight-longenecker.html

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Great Books, Higher Education, and the Logos – The Imaginative Conservative

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The ends of higher education are the acquisition of wisdom and virtue and the serious pursuit of knowledge and truth. Reading the Great Books helps us to get to these ends. Informed by the wisdom, the beauty, the goodness, and the truth we encounter in Great Books, we can responsibly and humanely practice our vocation in life… (essay by Michael Jordan)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/great-books-education-logos-timeless-michael-jordan.html

Paul Volcker’s New Memoir: A Broadside Against his Successors? | Mises Institute

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Paul Volcker, the cigar smoking former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, literally and figuratively towers over his successors (he is reportedly 6’7″). Mr. Volcker is the the last Chair under whose tenure American savers could earn a decent rate of interest, the last Chair who demonstrated any meaningful political independence (clashing with presidents Carter and Reagan),
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Four Sides of a Cube: The Way of Great Books – The Imaginative Conservative

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We turn to the Great Books so that the encounter with them might do for us what they did for past generations. We turn to them as world makers, that they might aide us in understanding the world they were instrumental in bringing about, our world… (essay by David Levine)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/10/four-sides-cube-great-books-david-levine.html