transition

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Most Americans don’t have the opportunity to see or understand much of the world until they step into it for themselves, and even then, the transition is slow.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

For years, the firm resisted going electric - even as much of the motor industry was making the transition.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Would an infusion of paper money not, at least, have softened the price-chopping transition to steam from sail, to rails from horses and to machinery from manpower?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

According to the simulations, several processes worked together to accelerate Antarctic ice growth after the climate transition around one million years ago.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

A second theory, unappealing to those Japanese who prefer the first theory, argues instead that the Yayoi transition represents a massive influx of immigrants from Korea, carrying Korean farming practices, culture, and genes.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond