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The MIT Series Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen opened their 2019 Atlantic piece that helped jump-start the progress studies movement with the following passage: In 1861, the American scientist and educator William Barton Rogers published a manifesto calling for a new kind of research institution. Recognizing the “daily increasing proofs of the happy influence of scientific culture on the industry and the civilization of the nations,” and the growing importance of what he called “Industrial Arts,” he proposed a new organization dedicated to practical knowledge. He named it the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ....
Asked a group of the world s great thinkers to predict what life would be like in 2011. now. w.j. mayo, founder of the mayo clinic, predicted our life expectancy 59 years in 1931 would reach the biblical term of three score and ten, 70. the reality? life expectancy in the u.s. is now nearly 78. at a time when 35% of american homes were still heated by wood, willis whitney, who founded the research lab at general electric, predicted by 2011, you would live in an electrically heated, air conditioned home. but he also added there would be an attached aircar hangar. not quite. henry ford said that whatever 2011 produced, it would make 1931 seem drab. well, this was the new york skyline then. and now. then they had little orphan annie on the radio. we have jersey shore. sociologist william ogburn got closest. he predicted the magic of remote ....
america s great warships, one of the navy s most powerful commanders caught in a scandal that s growing like an ocean tidal wave tonight. today, we learned new details about what the navy calls clearly inappropriate video shown to 6,000 sailors aboard a giant nuclear powered aircraft carrier. martha raddatz has been looking into those tapes, the man who made them and the debate over their content and his career. martha. reporter: diane, the short answer to that question is no, the captain will be tem pour rarly change on his duties as commander of the uss enterprise. meet captain owen p. honors. decorated top gun pilot. naval academy graduate. and 1 of only 11 officers in the u.s. navy who commands an aircraft carrier. but not anymore. this is captain honors on the videos he broadcast for his 6,000 sailors as part of movie night in 2006 and 2007, jokingly revealing sexually suggestive staged scenes between two women and two men and that is not the half of it. the ca ....