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- A Computing Pioneer Has a New Idea http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/technology/business-computing/17machine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology 13 comments
- Sebastian Vettel: Formula 1 "not exactly a pioneer" when it comes to ideas https://www.motorsport-total.com/formel-1/news/sebastian-vettel-formel-1-beim-gedankengut-nicht-gerade-vorreiter-22010601?utm_source=TW-MST&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=twmst-n-1-128847_-_sebastian-vettel-formel-1-beim-gedankengut-nicht-gerade-vorreiter 73 comments formula1
- China has become a hotspot for the ‘vertical forest’ building concept, says design firm that pioneered the idea: Project in Nanjing will be the third prototype of the urban forest concept, and the first in Asia, says architectural firm Stefano Boeri Architetti. https://www.scmp.com/business/article/2176303/china-has-become-hotspot-vertical-forest-building-concept-says-design-firm 22 comments worldnews
- Pioneering experiments have cast doubt on a founding idea of the branch of physics called quantum mechanics. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19489385 15 comments science
- How Seattle’s public library is stepping up to deal with the city’s homelessness crisis: A pioneering public organisation is taking a stand against the growing problem of homelessness on the West Coast. In so doing, it is re-defining the very idea of a library. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2018/12/how-seattle-s-public-library-stepping-deal-city-s-homelessness-crisis 589 comments books
- "When Democrats endorse ideas Republican pioneered, that doesn’t lead to bipartisanship. When they endorse ideas Republicans currently support, that doesn’t lead to bipartisanship. And when they act on their own, that’s too partisan. So what, exactly, are they supposed to do?" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/dreaming-of-bipartisanship/2012/06/18/gjqarmlwlv_blog.html 5 comments politics
- The Seasteading Institute - floating cities - which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government http://www.seasteading.org 5 comments technology
- Pioneering analysis of deep-sea corals has overturned the idea that ocean currents contributed to increasing global levels of carbon dioxide in the air over the past 11,000 years. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/june/coral-nature-geoscience.html 2 comments science
- Rural Rwanda is home to a pioneering new solar idea - Nearly 20% of the world’s population has no electricity. London graduates, apparently against the odds, have helped thousands of people in Africa access energy from the Sun. Could their idea teach power providers in the West a thing or two? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171009-rural-rwanda-is-home-to-a-pioneering-new-solar-power-idea 4 comments technology
- Famed inventor Thomas Edison changed the face of modern life in 1879 when he devised the groundbreaking new process of taking ideas pioneered by other scientists and marketing them as his own. http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/thomas_edison_invents 4 comments reddit.com
- The sweeping extent to which increasing 40Hz “gamma” rhythm power in the brain can affect the pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models has been surprising, even to the MIT neuroscientists who’ve pioneered the idea. So surprising, in fact, they can’t yet explain why it happens. https://picower.mit.edu/news/scientists-eager-explain-brain-rhythm-boosts-broad-impact-alzheimers-models 4 comments science
- Too Perfect: "Famed inventor Thomas Edison changed the face of modern life in 1879 when he devised the groundbreaking new process of taking ideas pioneered by other scientists and marketing them as his own." http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/thomas_edison_invents 168 comments science
- "The superpower that once pioneered big ideas like democracy, human rights and civil liberties now leads the way toward planetary suicide, lest anyone should lose a nickel or two off their standard of living in the short term." http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/05 7 comments reddit.com
- Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life | Quanta Magazine - Joseph Howlett | A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms https://www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/ 4 comments math
- The stuff of night mayors: Amsterdam pioneers new way to run cities after dark | First politician-of-the-night wants revellers to ‘stay classy’ and local residents to be happy. As London joins the growing band of cities imitating the idea, Jon Henley goes out on patrol with the original night mayor http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/21/night-mayor-amsterdam-holland-mirik-milan-night-time-commission 5 comments europe
- TIL Alan Kay, a pioneer in developing object-oriented programming, conceived the idea of OOP partly from how biological cells encapsulate data and pass messages between one another http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81ht/doc_kay_oop_en 411 comments programming