The wave machine someone invented to simulate the oceans of Pandora risks crushing the actors to death under eight pounds of steel?
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
Putnam raised the example of how, during the previous upswing, organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were invented just a few years apart, because people recognized that young people needed mentors.
Riffmade founders Stephanie Betesh and Nicholas Steigmann devised a whole line of furnishings with this idea in mind, starting with a desk that can be covered up when the work day is over.
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Lori Keong,
Architectural Digest,
30 Oct. 2025
The British military historian John Keegan revealed the hazards of this kind of planning in his anatomy of the Schlieffen Plan, the German strategy for fighting a two-front continental war that was devised, in 1905, by the chief of the army’s general staff, Alfred von Schlieffen.
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Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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