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...replace the Model T, Ford launches the second Model A. (The original was built in 1903.) The company sells 4 million of them 1920s Ford dominates automobile production, with 55% of output in 1921 and nearly 65% in 1924. But by 1931, General Motors eclipses a flailing Ford to become the world's largest automaker...
...creative process is basically the same: generating ideas, evaluating them and executing them, with many creative sparks over time. The role of collaboration may be more obvious in business than in writing, but even apparently solitary creators like writers read constantly and talk to one another. In the 1920s and 1930s, for example, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis batted around religious and literary ideas with the Inklings, a group of unfashionably Christian professors who met weekly at an Oxford...
...future. A marriage of the Greek words noos, for "mind," and tropein, for "toward," it refers to drugs that enhance mental performance?popularly known as smart drugs. Nootropes aren't new. Amphetamines, first synthesized by a German chemist in 1887 and used in over-the-counter inhalers by the 1920s, were doled out generously during World War II to Allied and German troops to keep them alert. Military pilots still take dextroamphetamine, or go pills, to stay in fighting form on long missions. But in the post-Viagra era, many neurologists believe?and ethicists fear?that scientific advances and social...
...Lane and Peter Flynn started the festival, which began as an academic event featuring Irish films produced since the 1920s, while at Amherst College. It included panels and guest speakers, but at the end of the day, most of the people who attended were Irish-Americans interested in seeing movies from their own cultural background. The special program was so successful that despite what Flynn refers to as “the whole nightmare that it was” they decided to make it an annual event...