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The Glass–Steagall Act passed in 1933 during the Great Depression in the United States provides another example; most of the Glass-Steagall provisions were repealed during the 1980s and 1990s. The Onion Futures Act bans the trading of futures contracts on onions in the United States, after speculators successfully cornered the market in the ...
These examples highlight the caveat that many works, now regarded as intentional or unintentional speculative fiction, long predated the coining of the genre term; its concept, in its broadest sense, captures both a conscious and unconscious aspect of human psychology in making sense of the world, and responds to it by creating imaginative ...
"A thought experiment is a device with which one performs an intentional, structured process of intellectual deliberation in order to speculate, within a specifiable problem domain, about potential consequents (or antecedents) for a designated antecedent (or consequent)." — Yeates, 2004, p. 150.
Other examples speculate Palestinian futures rendered impossible by the reality of the present, such as Rabah's The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Human Kind. Rabah's conceptual, multisite exhibit blends fictional and real events to fabricate implausible Palestinian pasts and futures. [3]
For example, other flowers, such as the hyacinth, also had high initial prices at the time of their introduction, which then fell as the plants were propagated. The high prices may also have been driven by expectations of a parliamentary decree that contracts could be voided for a small cost, thus lowering the risk to buyers.
Donald Trump’s administration won’t “speculate” whether a homeless transgender person should be rejected from a shelter merely because they are transgender.. The question was posed to a ...
If you’re stuck on today’s Wordle answer, we’re here to help—but beware of spoilers for Wordle 1329 ahead. Let's start with a few hints.
'He made an example of us' Musk soon began a series of legal attacks against non-profit groups who had provoked his ire. First, in July 2023, his company sued the Center for Countering Digital ...