Tuesday, March 22, 2011

100 greatest ideas

Time magazine has a special issue on Time 100 Ideas That Changed the World (History's Greatest Breakthroughs, Inventions and Theories). Einstein's Theory of Relativity leads the pack, of course, followed by Computing, The Big Bang, and (Christian) Monotheism.
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