User:Saudade7

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(∃x) If you are viewing this page somewhere other than on the Wikipedia, it is because someone has decided to mirror my Wiki page in order to drive traffic to their ad-revenue site. This helps them collect "view" money via some of the ridiculous ads that you are probably seeing in the <-- left or right --> margins or up there ^^ in the banner area. E.g., right *now* "www.ireference.ca" is using my collection of interesting pages to sell detox pills, 9mm handguns, and anti-cancer soft gels. Personally I couldn't care less if this information is appropriated; I'm pretty Copyleft as a rule, but I think that most of the stuff in those ads is bogus and shady and you should not click on the links or buy anything from a page that features this list. I have seen sites in Russian and sites from Nigeria mirroring my silly page. The Internet is really fascinating. Last time I counted (yesterday) I was watching 3505 pages on here so I imagine that I do help with the traffic! (∃x)

I have determined that my first edit was made to the

Natural Science page on November 7, 2002. I added the MIT link at the bottom of the page, a link that is now defunct. Look at that page as it was then
and think about how much the Wikipedia has grown!!!

I also wrote a very long entry on Sonya Rapoport an artist whose studio I visited in Berkeley and who I thought deserved a page. I am an art historian and I used materials from her archives to create all the sections and linked each with verifiable citations. In working on the page I got to know her, so what was not COI when I began writing the page might have become COI a year or so later, (though she has since died). I only used information from articles to write the entry, was strictly POV etc. I did not receive payment. I'm just putting this here to be transparent in case there is a question.

I also wrote an entire article on the artist Nick Fudge whose work I learned about in England. We do have mutual friends in common but I relied wholly on articles and published interviews and did not receive payment. I simply thought his work and story warranted an entry.

submitting photos

I was also a

Wikipedia Campus Ambassador at the University of California, Berkeley
for three separate classes.

Note: This page looks a little empty, but if you highlight it, you will find brief definitions for each entry / (or else, in the case of seemingly dull things, the thing about that dull thing that interested me.) At least in the beginning...I just haven't had time in the last six years to keep up with the maintenance as I should. Ahahaha I've been on here like 20 years now, so...

My Watchlist (which I couldn't organize on the Watchlist page, alas...)

Who Watches The Watchlist?

Animals and related

  • Bedbug
    (0 lives by hematophagy)
  • Colony Collapse Disorder
    (0 drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honey bee colonies)
  • Earwig (0 fanciful notion that earwigs burrow into the brains of humans through the ear and therein lay their eggs)
  • Giant Palouse earthworm (0 Washington state, Idaho; discovered in 1897 to be extinct in the 1980s)
  • Hookworm (0 as Helminthic therapy)
  • Cetacean intelligence (0 flipper)
  • Polyp (0one of two forms of individuals found in many species of cnidarians. The two are the polyp or hydroid and the medusa)
  • Small shelly fauna (0 the tiny tiny shells on the beach)
  • Wentletrap (0 very high-spired, predatory sea snails)
  • Horse behavior (0 the behavior of horses, of course)
  • Perche (0 former province of northern France extending over the départements of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir and Sarthe. Percheron horses)
  • Chunee (0 put to death in 1826 became a cause célèbre)
  • Crushing by elephant
    (0 define)
  • List of historical elephants
    (0 self-explanatory)
  • Tusko (0 The elephant on LSD)
  • Beast of Gévaudan (0 define)
  • Wolves of Paris (0 define)
  • Animals in space (0 self explanatory)
  • Drop bear (0 unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping)
  • Exploding whale (0 dead sperm whale was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass)
  • Rat king (folklore)
    (0 tangled up in tails)
  • Taxidermy (0 Deyrolle)
  • Animal Liberation Front (0 define)
  • Animal studies (0 define)
  • Britches (monkey)
    (0 eyelids sewn shut as part of a three-year maternal- and sensory-deprivation study)
  • Stable vices (0 bad habits of equines, especially horses. They usually develop as a result of being confined with insufficient exercise)
  • The Plague Dogs (film) (0 two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain)
  • Unnecessary Fuss (0 footage shot inside the University of Pennsylvania's Head Injury Clinic in Philadelphia)
  • Andean Mountain Cat
    (0 one of the least known and rarest of all felines, none in captivity)
  • Animal chaplains
    (0 a depressing development)
  • Deer (0 deer stag chevreuil)
  • List of animal names (0 foal filly colt heard flock covey brace)
  • Petting zoo (0 a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed)
  • The Puppy Channel (0 now available on DVD)
  • Tillamook Cheddar (dog) (0 Define)
  • Zarafa (0 giraffe given to Charles X of France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt)

Animal painters and sculptors

Architecture and cities

  • Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
    (the subject of my friend Imene’s dissertation)
  • Burj Dubai
    (the sailboat building)
  • Detournement
    (create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original)
  • Dérive (explore their environment ("psychogeography") without preconceptions, to understand their location, and therefore their existence)
  • Flamboyant (florid style of late Gothic architecture in vogue in France and Spain during the 15th century)
  • Franz Reichelt (died jumping with parachute from Eiffel Tower)
  • Gore (segment) (segment of a three-dimensional shape fabricated from a two-dimensional material)
  • Paris Meridian
    (a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France -- now longitude 2°20′14.025″)
  • Parkour (l'art du déplacement moving from one point to another as efficiently and quickly as possible, using the abilities of the human body)
  • Philippe Petit (French high wire artist who gained fame for his illegal walk between the former Twin Towers on August 7, 1974)
  • Sather Tower (a campanile (bell and clock tower) on the University of California, Berkeley campus)
  • University of Paris (How many are there?)

Art and art history

Horse.
  • 1899 in art (fin-de-siècle fun)
  • Art history
  • Bernard Palissy (snakes on a plate)
  • Cai Guo-Qiang (fengshui, Chinese medicine, dragons, roller coasters, computers, vending machines and gunpowder)
  • Catalogue raisonné
  • Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (an American philanthropist and art collector)
  • Charlotte Salomon (Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel)
  • Connoisseur (from connoistre, connaître meaning "to be acquainted with")
  • Édouard-Henri Avril (French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril, he was an illustrator of erotic literature)
  • Et in Arcadia ego
    (Nicolas Poussin)
  • Flammarion woodcut
    (medieval pilgrim peering through the sky curtain to view hidden workings of the universe)
  • Giovanni Morelli (identifying the characteristics "hands" of painters through scrutiny of minor details)
  • Giovanni Segantini (Italian painter that ____ (woman once cataloguing Bonheur) wrote about)
  • Gustave Courbet (He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty)
  • Jan van Mieris (brother of Willem van Mieris. Always sickly with mysterious maladies)
  • Jurgis Baltrušaitis (son)
    (Lithuanian art historian, art critic and a founder of comparative art research)
  • Le Radeau de la Méduse
    (French film by Iradj Azimi (1994))
  • List of statues by height
  • Luc-Olivier Merson ("Rest on Flight to Egypt")
  • Monograph (treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects; one-time publication that is complete in itself)
  • New Epoch Notation Painting
    (a conceptual writing system or visual language for pure visual images)
  • Pentimento (an alteration in a painting showing that the artist has changed his mind from the Italian pentirsi, meaning to repent.)
  • Prix de Rome (created in 1663 in France under the reign of Louis XIV. annual burse for promising painters, sculptors, and architects)
  • Raphaelle Peale (bodily fruit, looking at you)
  • The Four Stages of Cruelty (four printed engravings published by William Hogarth in 1751)
  • The Little Mermaid (statue) (S.I. and a severed head)
  • Tropicalismo
    (Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s and encompassed theatre, poetry and music, among other forms)
  • User:Paul Barlow ("this guy is super-smart, part of my holy trinity - Caroline Arscott, PB, and David Peters Corbett - of Brit-on-Brit art historians...)
  • Villard de Honnecourt (sculpture, and architectural plans, ecclesiastical objects and mechanical devices, animals and human figures)
  • Willard Wigan (Makes the world's smallest sculptures)
  • Willem van Mieris (the creepy carrots in the Louvre)

Childhood

Crime

  • Advance fee fraud
    (Nigerian letters)
  • Charles Sobhraj (French serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin)
  • Elizabeth Báthory (most infamous serial killer in Hungarian and Slovak history and is remembered as the Bloody Lady of Čachtice)
  • Gilles de Rais (brother-in-arms of Joan of Arc. later convicted of torturing, raping and murdering young boys)
  • Hélène Jegado
    (French domestic servant and serial killer. She murdered at least 23 people with arsenic between 1833 and 1851)

Disasters

American bison.

Diseases

  • 2007 Peruvian meteorite illness
    (arsenic poisoning)
  • Argyria (colloidal silver – people turning blue)
  • Bronchiolitis obliterans (microwave popcorn will kill you!)
  • Chikungunya (rare form of viral fever caused by an alphavirus that is spread by mosquito bites)
  • Chrysiasis (dermatological condition caused by the prolonged ingestion of gold)
  • Fatal familial insomnia
    (found in just 40 families worldwide; progression into sleeplessness, untreatable, ultimately fatal)
  • List of fictional diseases
  • Mercury poisoning (also known as mercurialism, hydrargyria, Hunter-Russell syndrome, or acrodynia when affecting children)
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (superbug)
  • Radium jaw (an occupational disease brought on by the ingestion / absorption of radium into the bones of Radium dial painters)
  • Sensorineural hearing loss (a type of hearing loss in the vestibulocochlear nerve in the inner ear, or central processing centers of the brain)
  • Tick-borne meningoencephalitis
    (It is transmitted by the bite of infected deer ticks or (rarely) through the non-pasteurized milk of infected cows)
  • Tietze's syndrome
    (When Seth thinks he’s having a heart attack)
  • Toxoplasma gondii (Parasite that makes us love cats)

Cures, poisons

  • Bates method (or better eyesight)
  • Dimethylmercury (Karen Wetterhahn, died after spilling a few drops of this compound on her latex-gloved hand)
  • Gentian violet
    (an antifungal agent; stains things purple)
  • Tarantism (a deadly envenomation resulting from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a "tarantula" )
  • Trepanation
    (a form of surgery in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the skull, thus exposing the dura mater)

End of the world

Environment and place

Fishes
.
  • Harajuku (area is known internationally for its youth style and fashion)
  • List of environmental issues
  • Lists of countries
  • Nauru (a phosphate rock island, tax haven and money laundering center)
  • North Pacific Gyre (floating trash the size of Texas)
  • Pole of inaccessibility (marks a location that is most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features)
  • Pyramid Lake (Nevada) (mystical desert lake)
    • Tufa (an unusual geological form of calcite rock; spooky, otherworldly, like that sinkhole picture on the magazine in my childhood)
  • Réunion (one of the overseas départements of France)
  • Shawangunk Ridge (climbing in the gunks)
  • Tepui (White crystals and black butterflies)

Food, drink and drugs

  • Biang biang noodles
    (touted as one of the "ten strange wonders of Shaanxi")
  • Brillat-Savarin cheese (goes well with medjool dates and also champagne)
  • Casu marzu
    (Some people clear the larvae from the cheese before consuming; others do not)
  • Durian (The odour has led to the fruit's banishment from certain hotels)
  • Entremet (food modeled into allegorical scenes)
  • Espelette pepper (Piment d'Espelette)
  • Horse meat (1807, surgeon-in-chief of Napoleon's Grand Army, told starving troops to eat the flesh of horses that had died on the battlefield)
  • King cake (festival of Epiphany, Mardi Gras and Carnival)
  • Matcha (green tea used particularly in the Japanese tea ceremony)
  • Meat (animal tissue used as food)
  • Miracle fruit
    (molecule binds to the tongue's taste buds, causing bitter and sour foods (such as lemons and limes) consumed later to taste sweet)
  • Mukhwas (colorful Indian after-meal snack or digestive aid)
  • Oliebol (because of the fat in the oliebollen, her sword would slide off the body of whomever ate them)
  • Orgeat syrup (sweet syrup made from almonds, sugar and rose water or orange-flower water)
  • Ortolan Bunting
    (the bird François Mitterand ate for his last meal)
  • Pastis (an anise-flavored liqueur and apéritif from France, typically containing 40–45% alcohol by volume)
  • Pierre Hermé (French pastry chef that Vogue called "the Picasso of Pastry")
  • Pimento cheese (core ingredients are grated cheddar cheese, chopped pimento, mayonnaise, hot sauce, and black pepper)
  • Pineau des Charentes (made from a blend of unfermented grape must and Cognac brandy. départements of Charente and Charente-Maritime)
  • Salad oil scandal
    (caused over $150 million in losses to corporations including American Express and Bank of America)
  • Subtlety
    (an entertainment dish used in the Middle Ages. It was a type of entremets; peafowl and swans)
  • The good version of Subtlety
  • Umami (similar to Brillat-Savarin's concept of osmazome)
  • Jenkem (people sniffing poop)
  • Paleolithic style diet
    (emulates the dietary patterns of the various human species living during the Paleolithic (the Old Stone Age))

France

  • Annales School
    (incorporating social scientific methods into history)
  • Buzancy (define)
  • Carnavalet Museum
    (define)
  • Doubs (department)
    (Define)
  • École des Annales
    (definition)
  • French Guiana (define)
  • History of the Left in France
    (define)
  • Jacquard loom
    (definition)
  • Jura (Define)
  • Jura Mountains (define)
  • Jura federation
    (define)
  • La Peau de chagrin (definition)
  • List of French words and phrases used by English speakers
    (define)
  • Paris 7 - Denis Diderot University
    (MA Thesis on Bonheur)
  • Saint-Gobain (define)

History, myth

  • 19th century (the whole fabulous century)
  • A few acres of snow (otherwise known as Canada to Voltaire)
  • Acis
    (lover of Galatea)
  • Acis and Galatea (mythology)
  • French people (the people of France!)
  • Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
    (French utopian socialist thinker)
  • Guano Islands Act (bird poop land grab)
  • Guy Fawkes (remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot)
  • Kaspar Hauser (mysterious foundling in 19th century Germany with suspected ties to the royal house of Baden)
  • List of French monarchs
  • Ludwig II of Bavaria (several extravagant fantasy castles (the most famous being Neuschwanstein); patron of the composer Richard Wagner)
  • Marija Gimbutas (the chevron; Kurgan peoples)
  • New France (the area colonized by France in North America,1534 - 1763)
  • Paris Colonial Exposition (Colonial Exhibition 1931, display the diverse cultures and immense resources of France's colonial possessions)
  • Waldseemüller map (a wall map of the world drawn by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller and originally published in April 1507)

History of science

  • Anatomy Act 1832 (expanded the legal supply of cadavers for medical research and education)
  • Automaton (le Canard Digérateur)
  • Comparative anatomy (similarities and differences in the anatomy of organisms)
  • Digesting Duck (Jacques de Vaucanson’s pooping automaton, 1739)
  • Dirk Jan Struik (mathematician and Marxist historian of 19th-century mathematics)
  • Edgar Zilsel (social and historic conditions of the development of modern science)
  • Évariste Galois (French mathematician, laid the foundations for Galois theory, died from wounds suffered in a duel at the age of 20)
  • Everything That Rises Must Converge (Jesuit paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)
  • Inception of Darwin's theory (how Darwin began to formulate his theory. Animal observations)
  • Jakob von Uexkull
    (the grandson, interesting in his own right)
  • Jakob von Uexküll
    (the Umwelt of different creatures such as ticks, sea urchins, amoebae, jellyfish and sea worms)
  • Jaquet-Droz automata (the musician, the drawer and the writer. still functional at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire of Neuchâtel, in Switzerland)
  • John George Wood (19th c. British lecturer on zoology, illustrated by drawing on black-board or large sheets of white paper with coloured crayons)
  • Maxwell's demon (meant to raise questions about the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics)
  • Giordano Bruno (Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist. first "martyr for science")
  • Henri Milne-Edwards (eminent French 19th c. zoologist)
  • History of anatomy in the 19th century
  • History of paleontology
  • Morphogenesis (concerned with the shapes of tissues, organs and entire organisms and the positions of the various specialized cell types)
  • Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
    (natural history museum in Paris)
  • Nikola Tesla in popular culture (Tesla in art, literature and film etc.)
  • Red Queen (For an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just to maintain its fitness relative to the systems it is co-evolving with)
  • Richard Levins (his radical orthodox Marxism has made his analyses less well known than those of some other ecologists and evolutionists)
  • Shen Kuo (was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). he was good at...EVERYTHING)
  • The Power of Movement in Plants (an 1880 book by Charles Darwin and his son Francis on phototropism in plants)
  • Vitalism (doctrine that the functions of a living organism are due to a vital principle distinct from physicochemical forces)

Movies, television, radio

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky (Holy Mountain)
  • Angel: After The Fall
    (comic post-show)
  • Colemanballs (gaffes perpetrated by (usually British) sports commentators)
  • Dennō Senshi Porygon (Pokémon incident pokemon)
  • Dutch angle (Batman camera angle)
  • Films considered the greatest ever
  • Han shot first (changes made to a scene in Episode IV, involving the characters Han Solo and Greedo in the Mos Eisley Cantina)
  • Hyperlink cinema (films following multiple story lines and multiple characters. these story lines and characters intersect obliquely and subtly)
  • La Soufrière (film) (Herzog’s Volcano and a world without people)
  • Land of Plenty (2004 film)
    (Wenders’ film, can’t see in the United States)
  • List of This American Life episodes
  • Memories of Underdevelopment (a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami)
  • Memory Alpha (a wiki that is an encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe)
  • Pauline Kael (an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991)
  • Ray Scott (sportscaster) (Green Bay Packers, Baltimore Colts, drunken sailor, mud and the Odyssey)
  • Redpill
    (a human that has been freed from the Matrix)
  • Renaldo and Clara (directed by and starring Bob Dylan. 1975, during Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, it was released in 1978)
  • Richard Proenneke (a naturalist and survivalist who lived alone in the high mountains of Alaska; living in a log cabin he constructed by hand)
  • Sherri Finkbine
    (Finkbine was known as Miss Sherri on the local Phoenix, Arizona version of Romper Room. child...Thalidomide)
  • The Hole (film) (a 2001 psychological horror-thriller directed by Nick Hamm, based on the novel After the Hole)
  • The Long Way Home (Buffy comic) (first arc from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series of comic books)
  • The Sun (film) (film centres on the meeting of Emperor Hirohito and General Douglas MacArthur after Japan's defeat in World War II)
  • The Trap (television documentary series)
    (simplistic model of humans as self-seeking, almost robotic creatures led to today's idea of freedom)
  • The World, the Flesh and the Devil
    (science fiction premise about the end of the world to explore matters of race)
  • Wilhelm scream (a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums)
  • Will It Blend?(Viral marketing campaign - put things in a blender)
  • The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959 film) (define)
  • Terror of the Autons (define)
  • Daktari (define)
  • Silent Running (define)
  • Dollhouse (TV series) (created by Joss Whedon)
  • The Profit (film prohibited by Church of Scientology)
  • Tokyo-Ga (1985 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu)
  • Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse (definition)
  • The Brood (define)
  • The Day of the Triffids (define)

Music

  • Arpeggio (a broken chord where the notes are played or sung in succession)
  • Artur Schnabel (Austrian classical pianist)
  • Can (band) (krautrock)
  • Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (suicide by cholera)
  • Eden (Everything But the Girl album)
    (Joseph Albert Hodge III)
  • Express (album) (second album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1986 on Beggar's Banquet)
  • Hello Saferide (Swedish twee pop band)
  • Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song) (he mourns his dead lover, looks at a tree remembering "it was just a twig" when they planted it together)
  • Just (song) (Radiohead song with the people lying on the street video)
  • Kanye West (George Bush doesn't care about black people!)
  • Marc Lavoine (Paris Paris)
  • Martha Argerich (charming Argentine concert pianist)
  • Missa Luba (song from "If...")
  • Mod revival (subculture that started in UK in 1978; clashed with Teddy Boy revivalists, skinhead revivalists, casuals, punks, etc.)
  • O mio babbino caro (aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini)
  • Serpent (instrument) (serpent is closely related to the cornett, although it is not part of the cornett family, due to the absence of a thumb hole)
  • Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (debut album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1985 on Beggar's Banquet)
  • Sviatoslav Richter (Soviet pianist, widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century)
  • Tenori-on
    (an electronic musical instrument, designed and created by Japanese artist, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori)
  • The Holy Modal Rounders (American folk music duo from the Lower East Side started in the early 1960s; Sam Shepard)
  • Theremin (also known as an aetherphone is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments)
  • Victoires de la Musique (annual French award ceremony that recognises the best singers of the year)
  • Whitey on The Moon
    (possibly the biggest 1969 hit song for The Last Poets)

Objects and products (things)

  • Argand lamp (Edgar Allan Poe’s favorite lighting (Theory of Furniture))
  • Klerksdorp Spheres
    (small, often spherical to disc-shaped objects, collected by miners and rockhounds; 3.0 billion year old pyrophyllite deposits)
  • Scrabble (so I can tell what those squares on Scrabulous are)
  • Thing theory (focuses on the role of things in literature and culture. It borrows from Heidegger's distinction between objects and things)
  • Treskilling Yellow (a postage stamp of Sweden, and as of 2004 the most valuable stamp in the world)
  • Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (May of 1997 to mark the 20th anniversary of Apple Computer, not the Macintosh)
  • Vincent Motorcycles (Said red Molly to James, that's a fine motorbike...)

People's art, the

  • Snowman (the people’s art)
  • Sand art and play (Sand castles: a sandcastle is a type of sand sculpture resembling a miniature building, often a castle...the people's art)
  • Tree house (the people’s art)
  • Time capsule (trunks of cars, foundation stone, arctic ice caves, Noah's Ark)

Philosophers, theorists and critics

  • Al-Jazari
    (Arab Muslim scholar, artist, astronomer, inventor and mechanical engineer)
  • Alain Badiou (with Lacan dead and Althusser in an asylum)
  • Alan Turing (forced to inject estrogen into his thigh because he was gay)
  • Athanasius Kircher (one of the first people to observe microbes through a microscope)
  • Bill Brown (critical theory) (thing theory)
  • Georges Bataille (founded a secret society, Acéphale)
  • Giordano Bruno (Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist. first "martyr for science")
  • Michael Polanyi (opposed prevailing positivist account of science, arguing it failed to recognise the part which tacit knowing plays in science)
  • Paul de Man (Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist)
  • Simone Weil (French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist)
  • Walter Benjamin (German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher)

Physics and maths

  • An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything (the surfer’s theory of physics G8)
  • Casimir effect (physical force exerted between objects due to resonance of all-pervasive energy fields in the space between the objects)
  • Clay Mathematics Institute (Millenium Prize Problems)
  • Knot theory (branch of topology that studies mathematical knots, defined as embeddings of a circle in 3-dimensional Euclidean space)
  • Novelty theory
    (calculates the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. conceived of by Terence McKenna)
  • Osculating curve (an extension of the concept of tangent)
  • Spirograph (invented by British engineer Denys Fisher who exhibited it in 1965 at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair)

Plants and growing things

  • Biofouling (undesirable accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae, and animals on submerged structures)
  • Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (plants of my childhood: bush on corner of house)
  • Chamaecyparis thyoides (plants of my childhood: bush on corner of house)
  • Plant perception (paranormal) (Belief that plants are sentient, that they experience pain, pleasure, or emotions such as fear and affection, and that they have the ability to communicate)
  • Pyracantha (A genus of thorny evergreen large shrubs in the family Rosaceae, subfamily Maloideae. plants of my childhood. The Glenn’s yard)
  • Rapid plant movement (movement in plant structures occurring under one second. e.g., the Venus Flytrap closes its trap in 100 milliseconds)
  • Lantana camara (also known as Spanish Flag; plants of my childhood; Ellen Weinel’s yard)
  • The Secret Life of Plants (Plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system. Film with Stevie Wonder soundtrack)

Politics

  • Abahlali baseMjondolo (South African Shack-Dweller's movement)
  • Alfred Sohn-Rethel (compromise between industry / big agrarians at the shareholders' meeting of the IG Farben in 1932 paved the way for Hitler)
  • Aung San Suu Kyi (pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar)
  • Chemtrail conspiracy theory (lines in the sky)
  • Communards' Wall (one-hundred forty-seven fédérés, combatants of the Paris Commune, were shot)
  • Erving Goffman (bureaucratic structures of total institutions such as mental hospitals, prisons and concentration camps)
  • Extraordinary rendition (kidnapping and extrajudicial torture by proxy)
  • Human experimentation
    (medical experiments performed on human beings)
  • José Bové (French farmer and syndicalist, member of the alter-globalization movement, and spokesman for Via Campesina)
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen (crazy right-wing French fascist)
  • Julie MacDonald (reversed scientific findings, changed scientific conclusions to prevent endangered species from receiving protection)
  • KUBARK
    (CIA torture manual)
  • LaRouche Movement
    (crazy annoying fascist cult)
  • Labor spies
    (used by companies or their agents, and such activity often complements union busting)
  • List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks
  • Naturism (a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending social nudity in private and public spaces)
  • North Korean human experimentation
    (human rights abuses similar to those of Nazi and Japanese human experimentation in World War II)
  • Novus Ordo Seclorum
    (New World Order)
  • Operation Northwoods (1962 plan by the US DOD to stage acts of terrorism on US soil, against US interests to put the blame for these acts on Cuba)
  • Personality rights (The right to charge for (or bar entirely) the commercial exploitation of name, likeness, voice or "personality.")
  • Precarious work (non-standard employment which is poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and cannot support a household)
  • Precarity (a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare)
  • Reform Treaty
    (In 2005, the Constitution was rejected in referenda in France and in the Netherlands)
  • Robert Peel (create the modern concept of the police force oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party)
  • Salad oil scandal
    (major corporate scandal in 1963 caused over $150 million in losses to corporations including AMEX and Bank of America)
  • Secondary antisemitism (Zvi Rex, an Israeli psychologist, who made the observation that "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz")
  • Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (twenty years afterward the personal responsibility of François Mitterrand was officially admitted)
  • Subcomandante Marcos (spokesperson for the Mexican rebel movement, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) )
  • The Yes Men (a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call "identity correction" by pretending to be powerful people)
  • Total institution (boarding schools, concentration camps, colleges, prisons, summer camps, mental institutions, boot camps, monasteries...)
  • Treaty of Lisbon (tied in with Reform Treaty)
  • U.S. Navy slang
    (you have to look in the history to find the information)
  • USS Yosemite (AD-19) (a stupid boat)
  • US House Resolution 1955
    (seeks to deal with "homegrown terrorism and violent radicalization")
  • University of Florida Taser incident (Don’t tase me bro!)

Psychology related somehow

  • Automatic writing (define)
  • Bicameral mentality (human brain once assumed a state known as a bicameral mind)
  • C. Lloyd Morgan (psychologist, behaviorism)
  • Capgras delusion ( belief that an acquaintance has been replaced by an impostor)
  • Cerebral achromatopsia (case of the colorblind artist)
  • Change blindness (fails to detect large changes in the scene)
  • Charles Bonnet syndrome
    (define)
  • Choice blindness
    (fail to detect conspicuous mismatches between expected choice and the actual outcome)
  • Collective unconscious (define)
  • Comfort object (a stuffed animal, a favorite blanket)
  • Comparative psychology (behavior and mental life of animals)
  • Compulsive hoarding
    (pact rat)
    • Collyer brothers (brothers famous for snobbish nature, filth in their homes, and compulsive hoarding)
  • Cotard delusion
    (a person holds a delusional belief that he or she is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his/her blood or internal organs)
  • Cryptomnesia (a person believes they are creating or inventing something new, such as a story, poem, artwork, or joke, but is actually recalling a similar or identical work previously encountered)
  • Culture-bound syndrome (definition)
  • Delayed sleep phase syndrome
    (define)
  • Diogenes syndrome (senile squalor syndrome, behavioral disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect)
  • Duplessis Orphans (several thousand orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government)
  • Exploding head syndrome (define)
  • Foreign accent syndrome (define)
  • Fregoli delusion (belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise)
  • Fugue state
    (abandonment of personal identity, memories, personality and other characteristics of individuality)
  • Harry Harlow (American psychologist known for his maternal-deprivation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys)
  • Helen Morrison (serial killers are adept at learning to mimic emotional human behavior, but they can only do so for a limited amount of time)
  • Histrionic personality disorder (excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness)
  • Hug machine (originally conceived and designed by Temple Grandin at the age of eighteen)
  • Ideomotor effect
    (a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. Automatic writing)
  • John Bowlby (British psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and his pioneering work in attachment theory)
  • Kim Peek (savant with a photographic or eidetic memory and developmental disabilities, possibly resulting from congenital brain abnormalities)
  • Laughter (audible expression or appearance of merriment or amusement or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure)
  • Lilac chaser (a visual illusion, also known as the Pac-Man illusion)
  • List of cognitive biases
  • Macy conferences (1940s-50s. meetings of scientists and U.S. government officials; methods of mass psychological control and brainwashing)
  • Melanie Klein (devised novel therapeutic techniques for children significant impact on child psychology and psychoanalysis)
  • Mind control
    (subvert an individual's control of their own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decisions)
  • Mirror test ( whether an animal can recognize its own reflection in a mirror as an image of itself)
  • Mirrored self-misidentification
    ( belief that one's reflection in a mirror is some other person)
  • Morgan's Canon (a fundamental precept of comparative (animal) psychology)
  • Phineas Gage (suffered a traumatic brain injury when a tamping iron accidentally passed through his skull, damaging the frontal lobes of his brain)
  • Pit of despair (or vertical chamber, was a device used in experiments conducted on monkeys during the 1970s by Harry Harlow)
  • Primitive reflexes (are exhibited by normal infants but not neurologically intact adults)
  • Prosopagnosia (define)
  • Psychogenic polydipsia
    (define)
  • Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union
  • Rosenhan experiment (On being sane in insane places)
  • Sandplay Therapy
    (form of psychotherapy for the purpose of healing through connection with the deep psyche)
  • Sensorium (define)
  • Synesthesia (neurologically-based phenomenon; Rimbaud)
  • Tacit knowledge (theory by scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi)
  • Temple Grandin (a professional designer of humane livestock facilities; has high-functioning autism)
  • The Monster Study
    (a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa)
  • Transitional object
    (Winnicott: intermediate developmental phase between psychic and external reality. here we can find the ‘transitional object’)
  • Unconscious mind (sleep, sleep walking, delirium and coma)
  • Vagus nerve stimulation (definition)

Syndromes

  • Alice in Wonderland syndrome (subjects perceive humans, parts of humans, animals, and inanimate objects as much smaller than in reality)
  • Alien hand syndrome (one of the sufferer's hands seems to have a mind of its own)
  • Echolalia (present in autism, Tourette syndrome, Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, developmental disability, schizophrenia)
  • Prosopagnosia (Sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired Jane Goodall
  • Reduplicative paramnesia (Delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously)
  • Syndrome of subjective doubles (A person suffers from the delusion that he or she has a double or doppelgänger)

19th c. French psychology

  • Abbé de Coulmier (Director of the Charenton insane asylum, treated de Sade, possibly fictional)
  • Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont (medical doctorate in Paris 1825, visions dreams somnambulism hypnotism mesmerism ecstasy hallucinations apparitions cholera)
  • Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marques of Puységur
    (one of the pre-scientific founders of hypnotism, animal magnetism, Mesmerism - magnetized elm tree near Buzancy, near Soissons)
  • Charles Lasègue (medical doctorate University of Paris 1847 Salpêtrière psychosomatic disorders, anorexia nervosa, delusions of persecution)
  • Étienne-Jean Georget (Salpêtrière religious obsession sexual obsession obsession with evil senseless murder 1820s commissioned Théodore Géricault to paint portraits of mental patients)
  • François Leuret (work in comparative anatomy of the brain with Louis Gratiolet, d.1851 early psychiatry)
  • Félix Voisin (advocate of phrenological theories of Franz Joseph Gall Research of satyriasis nymphomania hypersexuality hysteria.)
  • Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904 group mind herd mentality science-fiction novel entitled Underground Man. This novel tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic earth covered by ice)
  • George Romanes (laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology)
  • Guillaume Ferrus ((1784-1861) psychiatrist. student of Philippe Pinel. somatic disorder relate to mental disorder)
  • Gustave Le Bon (theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behaviour and crowd psychology, evolution of matter)
  • Jacques-Joseph Moreau (1804-1884) psychiatrist member of the Club des Hashischins first physician to do systematic work on drugs' effects book, Hashish and Mental Alienation)
  • Jean-Pierre Falret (Salpêtrière 1831-1867) influential psychiatrist mind/body dualist...a phenomenon he called novum organon...created disturbances of the soul and caused mental illness)
  • Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1799 Salpêtrière intensive study of insanity Rue de Buffon maison de santé passions considered as causes, symptoms and means of cure in cases of insanity)
  • Jules Baillarger (Salpêtrière 1840 involuntary nature of hallucinations dynamics of hypnagogic state intermediary stage between sleep and wakefulness bipolar disorder)
  • Louis-Florentin Calmeil (insanity psychiatry...book was a rational discourse of topics such as demonology, lycanthropy, religious obsession etc.)
  • Louis Delasiauve (Salpêtrière epileptic and mentally handicapped patients pioneer of child psychiatry advocated education for mentally handicapped)
  • Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys (painting his dreams)
  • Paul Sollier (1861-1943 hysteria, memory, emotions, and mental retardation, IQ. cognitive-behavioral therapies most famous patient Marcel Proust.)
  • Philippe Pinel (Classification of mental disorders "the father of modern psychiatry" disciple of the abbé de Condillac)
  • Pierre Janet (1859-1947) dissociation traumatic memory subject's past life trauma, dissociation subconscious Jean-Martin Charcot hysteria memory Salpêtrière true founder of psychoanalysis psychotherapy)
  • Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (the mentally disabled, criminally insane, epileptics, and the poor; was notable for its population of rats)
  • Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839-1916) Experimental Psychology at Sorbonne inherited peculiarities Psychologie anglaise sensationalist schoolHerbert Spencer's Principles Arthur Schopenhauer memory will)
  • Théophile Archambault (1806-1861 "Treatise on the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Insanity)
  • Valentin Magnan (1835-1916 alcoholism, epilepsy and general paralysis degeneration evolutionary biology delirious episodes absinthe decline of French culture hallucinations crawling foreign body being beneath the skin)
  • Wilhelm Griesinger (studied under Johann Lukas Schönlein at the University of Zurich and physiologist François Magendie in Paris)

Random people

  • André de Lorde (chief author of the Grand Guignol plays)
    • Grand Guignol (1897 to its closing in 1962, specialized in naturalistic horror shows)
  • Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (elder brother of journalist Anderson Cooper, suicide)
  • Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
    (19th c. French magician. widely considered the father of the modern style of conjuring)
  • Karen Wetterhahn (she spilled a drop or two of dimethylmercury on her latex glove)
  • Nelson de la Rosa (the tiny guy who hung out in South Beach)

Reading and writing, sorta

  • Ambigram (word game in Omni magazine)
  • American and British English spelling differences
  • Benday dots
    (Roy Lichtenstein)
  • Dye-sublimation printer
    (images for T-shirts)
  • Emoticon ( :P )
  • Interweb
    (originated as the hacker culture response to the ever-increasing influx of inexperienced users to the Internet's forums and chat rooms)
  • Leet (31337, 1337, l33t)
  • List of French phrases
  • List of French phrases used by English speakers
  • List of common emoticons
  • Litotes (figure of speech. rather than making a claim, denies its opposite; i.e., rather than "she’s pretty", = "she's not hard to look at")
  • Lolcat (photographs of animals, most frequently cats, with captions in broken English referred to as Kitty Pidgin or Kitteh)
  • Portmanteau
    (a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning)
  • Spivak pronoun (a proposed set of gender-neutral pronouns in English)
  • Web colors (a list of colors that you can make things online)

Religion

  • Al-Aqsa Mosque (located on the "Temple Mount" in Jerusalem)
  • Annuit Cœptis
    (el poder de las pirámides!)
  • Christmas carol (originally communal songs sung during celebrations like harvest tide)
  • Church of God with Signs Following
    (snake handling and drinking poison)
  • Fetishism (object believed to have supernatural powers)
  • John of Leiden (body ripped with red-hot tongs for the space of an hour, killed with a dagger thrust through his heart. body raised in a cage)
  • Liberation theology (objections by Catholic critics are its Marxism, dialectical materialism, and tendencies to align with revolutionary movements)
  • Omphalos (theology)
    (world to be "functional", God must’ve created the Earth with mountains, Adam with a navel, ∴ no evidence of Earth’s age)
  • Seven Laws of Noah (prohibition against eating the limb of a living animal; not to eat or drink blood; not to eat carrion)
  • Solomon Spalding (Author of Manuscript Story, identical to Book of Mormon)
  • Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship
  • View of the Hebrews (Like the Book of Mormon...only different)

Stores of my childhood

  • AJ Bayless
    (stores of my childhood)
  • Revco (stores of my childhood)
  • TG&Y (stores of my childhood)

Things from / in / about outer space

Lunar libration
  • 2007 Peruvian meteorite event
    (the meteorite that made everyone sick)
  • Alien language (xenolinguistics, exolinguistics and astrolinguistics)
  • Jérôme Lalande (According to Roland Barthes in "Sade Fourier Loyola", Lalande liked to eat live spiders
  • Lucien Rudaux (French artist and astronomer, who created famous paintings of space themes in the 1920s and 1930s)
  • Solar power satellite
    (a satellite built in high Earth orbit uses microwave power transmission to beam solar power to a large antenna on Earth)
  • Spacing
    (A theoretical method of execution (or other sort of killing) by vacuum exposure in space)
  • The Colour Out of Space (H. P. Lovecraft. meteorite crashed - metallic and contained a substance of an indescribable colour, that proved toxic)

Words and ideas

  • Emic and etic (two different kinds of data concerning human behavior)
  • Glabrousness (hairlessness)
  • Saudade (Portuguese word for a feeling of longing for something that one is fond of, which is gone, but might return in a distant future)
  • Schadenfreude (German word meaning 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune')
  • Commodity fetishism (social relationships are transformed into apparently objective relationships)
  • Critical theory (differences and similarities between the two senses of the term)
  • Fallacy (logic)
  • Heuristic (method to help solve a problem, commonly informal. "rules of thumb", educated guesses, intuitive judgments)
  • Undark luminous paint made of radioactive radium and phosphorus between 1917 and 1938)

Writers and written things

  • Camp Concentration (this book is set during a war, projected from the Vietnam War, in which the United States is apparently criminally involved)
  • Emily Dickinson (one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century)
  • George Sand (French novelist and feminist)
  • Georges Simenon (noir novels in French)
  • Guy Davenport (American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher)
  • H. P. Lovecraft (invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien)
  • Honoré de Balzac (100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life 500)
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay (Scottish poet, writer, artist. a penchant for Virgil; a concern with the sea; an interest in the French Revolution)
  • Jean Lorrain (French poet and novelist; dedicated disciple of dandyism, introduced Moreau to Huysmans.)
  • Les Bienveillantes
    (how to get French citizenship)
  • List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
  • Little Nemo (main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay)
  • Philip Larkin (an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian)
  • Sergei Yesenin (Russian lyrical poet. died at 30 "Stars little stars, you’re so high and so clear!")
  • Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Cyberpunk)
  • Tel Quel (an avant-garde journal for literature, founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Sollers. influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche)
  • Weekly World News (tabloid newspaper published by American Media Inc.)
  • William Makepeace Thackeray (English novelist of the 19th century)
  • Wu Ming (a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna)

X-files

  • Angel hair (alleged substance of unknown origin, said to be dispersed from UFOs as they fly)
  • Count of St Germain
    (immortal, the Wandering Jew, alchemist of "Elixir of Life", Rosicrucian)
  • Eiserne Mann
    (old iron pillar partially buried in the ground)
  • Dropa
    (alleged race of dwarf-like extraterrestrials )
  • Eltanin Antenna (unusual object photographed on the sea floor by the Antarctic oceanographic research ship USNS Eltanin in 1964)
  • Favomancy (divination by beans)
  • Frank Edwards (writer and broadcaster) (paranormal books I read in 7th grade algebra)
  • Gil Pérez
    (Spanish soldier of the Filipino Guardia Civil who teleported to the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City on October 24, 1593)
  • Gloria Ramirez ("the toxic lady"; exposure to her body and blood sickened several hospital workers)
  • Hollow Earth (a hollow interior and, possibly, a habitable inner surface)
  • Jinx (odd that my parents named by first dog this. like someone naming a child "Gerson")
  • João de Deus (medium)
    ("psychic surgeon" in Brazil)
  • Ka-Bala (Mysterious Game that Tells the Future)
  • Mad scientist (insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, often working with fictional technology in order to forward their schemes)
  • Manastash Ridge (location of Mel’s Hole)
  • Manna (coriander seed; same colour as bdellium; tasted like olive oil; plant lice; crystallized honeydew of scale insects; psilocybin mushrooms)
  • Motif of harmful sensation (physical or mental damage that a person suffers merely by experiencing what should normally be a benign sensation)
  • Psychic surgery (a conjuring trick, create an incision using only the bare hands, to remove pathological matter)
  • Sailing stones (define)
  • Star jelly (a compound deposited on the earth during meteor showers. foul-smelling, gelatinous substance; evaporates shortly after falling)
  • Sungazing (practice of staring directly at the sun. to receive nourishment from it to either complement or replace eating food)
  • Tentacle rape
    (concept found in some horror hentai titles; various tentacled creatures / fictional monsters rape or otherwise penetrate women)
  • Tummo (drying wet sheets with your own body heat, sitting in the snow)

Remaining to be sorted

  • Anechoic chamber (a room in which there are no echoes)
  • Brocken spectre (the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer)
  • Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (a grammatically correct sentence)
  • Chattering classes (socially concerned and highly educated elite)
  • Chipko movement (female peasants in India who reclaim traditional forest)
  • Codex Seraphinianus (visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages)
  • Confidence trick
    (a con, scam, swindle, grift, bunko, flim flam, or scheme)
  • Craniometry (technique of measuring the bones of the skull)
  • David Hahn (to build a fast breeder nuclear reactor in 1994 in his backyard shed)
  • Endosymbiotic theory
    (alien origins of mitochondria)
  • Filk music (a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom)
  • Find A Grave
    (online database of over 22 million burial records)

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  • North American currency union
    (Amero)
  • Oak Island (location of the so-called Money Pit)
  • Paul Broca (Broca's aphasia, Peruvian trepanation)
  • Pectus excavatum (Hollowed chest congenital deformity of the sternum)
  • Pietro Testa (in Liceo Della Pittura he represents himself with a stone and snake (1640)
  • Project Habakkuk (an aircraft carrier out of Pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice)
  • Sullivan Ballou (letter he wrote to his wife before Battle of Bull Run)
  • Tardigrade (Water bears survive in environments that kill any other animal)
  • The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman
    (while still not being a perpetual motion machine)
  • The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever (Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random)
  • Trap street (fictitious street included on a map, trapping copyright violators)
  • Akashic records (contain all knowledge of human experience and the history of the cosmos)
  • Alexander Litvinenko poisoning
    (first known victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome)
  • Babalon Working
    (series of magick ceremonies or rituals commenced on March 2, 1946 by Jack Parsons)
  • Barsoom (fictional version of the planet Mars)
  • Bernard Berenson (Sonya's Cousin)
  • British Rail flying saucer (officially known simply as space vehicle)
  • CERN (When it goes online, we all die)
  • Catassing (sequestering oneself at a computer for MMOG)
  • Chagrin (strong feelings of annoyance or displeasure, sometimes mixed with embarrassment)
  • Chinoiserie (fanciful imagery of an imaginary China)
  • Clarke's three laws (Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:)
  • Crypt of Civilization (artifacts scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 CE)

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  • Snipe hunt (inexperienced campers told about a bird ridiculous method of catching it, such as running around woods carrying bag making strange noises.)
  • Superseded scientific theories
    (Lamarckism Maternal impression Miasma theory of disease Spontaneous generation ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny)
  • Thaumatrope (disk card with picture on each side attached to string twirledtwo pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision)
  • The Artist's Studio
    (A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life 1855 Gustave Courbet Musée d'Orsay)
  • The God Makers (film)
    (anti-Mormon film produced in 1982 by Ed Decker and Jeremiah Films)
  • The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967 book by Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian author, philosopher and former member of the Situationist International)
  • The Teenage Liberation Handbook (Grace Llewellyn's autodidactic book about unschooling)
  • Therianthropy (part man and part beast, metamorphosis of humans into other animals)
  • Treasure (a concentration of riches, often one which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered)
  • Unconscious mind (habit being unaware and intuition awakening, implicit memory, the subconscious, subliminal messages, trance, and hypnosis)
  • Unschooling (allow children to learn through their natural life experiences play, household responsibilities, and social interaction)
  • Unsolved problems in philosophy
    (Essentialism Gettier Molyneux Pyrrhonian regress Perception of color Moral luck Problem of evil induction Counterfactuals Mind-body etc)
  • V838 Monocerotis (reason for the outburst still uncertain theories include eruption related to stellar death processes star)
  • Valensole UFO Incident
    (1965, in a lavender field next to Valensole, located in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France)
  • Wing (singer) (a New Zealand singer of Hong Kong origin)
  • Zoonosis (a disease that can be transmitted from other vertebrate animals to humans)
  • Aby Warburg (define)

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  • Henry More Smith (a confidence man, master puppeteer, hypnotist, seer, liar, and above all else a superlative escape artist who lived for a while in New Brunswick, Canada)
  • If You Go Away (a song in English based upon the French song "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (1959), written by Jacques Brel)
  • Jesusland map (Internet meme, created shortly after the 2004 US Presidential election, which satirizes the red/blue states scheme)
  • Jurgis Baltrušaitis (son)
    (a Lithuanian art historian, art critic and a founder of comparative art research. He was the son of the poet and diplomat Jurgis Baltrušaitis.)
  • KEO (name of proposed space time capsule to be launched in 2010 or 2011 carrying messages from the citizens of Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it will reenter Earth's atmosphere)
  • Le Train de Nulle Part (233-page French novel, written in 2004 by a French doctor of letters, Michel Dansel / Michel Thaler entire novel is written without a single verb.)
  • List of characters in the Doctor Dolittle series
    (self-explanatory)
  • List of common misconceptions (self-explanatory)
  • List of trees
    (self-explanatory)
  • Lluvia de Peces
    (The Rain of Fish is common in Honduran Folklore. It occurs in the Departamento de Yoro, between the months of May and July.)
  • Local gigantism (a certain part of the body acquires larger than normal size. excessive growth of anatomical structures or abnormal accumulation)
  • Lorem ipsum (graphic design, placeholder text used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document such as font, typography, and layout)
  • Machine elf
    (coined by the ethnobotanist Terence McKenna to describe the entities one becomes aware of after taking tryptamine based psychedelic drugs, especially DMT.)
  • Madame Bovary (virtually unchallenged not only as a seminal work of Realism, but as one of the most influential novels ever written)
  • Marlovian theory
    (Christopher Marlowe is main author of the poems and plays typically attributed to William Shakespeare.)
  • Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until July 2006)
  • Mexican Perforation
    (French artistic movement by the group les UX that seeks to express their ideas by larcenic (illegal) occupation of underground places)
  • Mike the Headless Chicken (a Wyandotte rooster that lived for 18 months after its head had been cut off)
  • Minor White (American photographer who thought that people could tell he was gay by looking at his abstract photos of broken windows and peeling paint)
  • Mistpouffers
    (unexplained sounds like a cannon or a sonic boom. heard in many waterfront communities such as the banks of the river Ganges, inland Finger Lakes of the United States, etc.)
  • Mojave phone booth (lone telephone booth placed circa 1960 in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California which attracted an online following in 1997 due to its unusual location)
  • Nancy Green (a storyteller, cook, activist, and one of the first African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark as "Aunt Jemima")
  • Paraponera clavata (the so-called bullet ant, named on account of its powerful and potent sting, which is said to be as painful as being shot with a bullet)
  • Patricia Piccinini (artworks reflect her interest in issues such as bioethics, biotechnologies and the environment. undergraduate work focused on hyperreal life science illustrations)
  • Psychogenesis (Nima's dissertation? re: Whitney)
  • Raclette (cheese round is heated in front of a fire, then scraped onto diners' plates; name derives from the French racler, meaning "to scrape")
  • Rennes-le-Château (known internationally, and receives tens of thousands of visitors per year, for being at the center of various conspiracy theories)

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  • 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (US government hallucinogen used against Iraqis)
  • Automatism (case law)
    (laws covering sleepwalking crimes)
  • Ayahuasca (Ayahausca drug hallucinogen tourism in South America)
  • Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet (proposal for a spelling reform of the English language)
  • Boxer Rebellion (Righteous and Harmonious Fists in China, last use of Magic in Revolt)
  • Charles Lafontaine ((1803 – 1892) was an early Swiss mesmerist.)
  • Charles Richet (French physiologist, homeothermic animals, breathing. Discovered ectoplasm)
  • Château de Hohbarr (a medieval castle, 1100, on sandstone rock 460m. the eye of Alsace.)
  • Coltan (Cellphone metal war in the Congo)
  • Dreadnought hoax (Virginia Woolf punks the Royal Navy)
  • Dyatlov Pass incident (Campers disappear, irradiated, skulls crushed but no outward markings)
  • Edmund Gurney (19th c. telepathy, seances, hypnotism, etc.)
  • Empress Dowager Cixi (de facto ruler of Manchu Qing Dynasty, for 48 years.)
  • Eusapia Palladino (Arthur Conan Doyle praised her psychic phenomena and spirit materializations.)
  • Fingal's Cave (a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland)
  • Folie à deux (rare syndrome in which psychosis transmitted from one individual to another.)
  • Fowler's solution (Killed Darwin)
  • George Albert Smith (inventor)
    (inventor, stage hypnotist, psychic, astronomer, magic lantern lecturer.)
  • Gilgal Sculpture Garden (Parkwith unusual symbolic statuary associated with Mormonism.)
  • Henri Ellenberger (psychiatrist, medical historian, 1st historiographer of psychiatry)
  • In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
    (Melvyn Bragg)
  • James Braid (physician)
    (coined the English term "hypnotism" sleep of the nerves),)
  • James Salisbury
    (vegetables produce poisonous substances in the digestive system)
  • José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
    (Yale radio controlled bull)
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  • Kett's Rebellion (define)
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  • Umdhlebi
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  • Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (define)

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  • Theme Time Radio Hour Season Two
    (46 Bob Dylan "Around the World", "Birds", "More Birds.")
  • Thomas Ligotti (46 Anhedonic author of works of "philosophical horror")
  • Thomas Struth (46 With Andreas Gursky, Germany's most noted modern-day photographer.)
  • Timeline of snowflake research (46 Self-defining title)
  • Times Square (film) (46 Your Daughter is One.)
  • Trade wind
    (46 The downhill run,To Papeete. Off the wind on this heading, Lie the Marquesas.)
  • Trithemius cipher
    (46 Polyalphabetic cipher German monk Johannes Trithemius 15th c.)
  • Tulku (46 The Dalai Lama and Steven Seagal)
  • Varosha, Famagusta (46 Tourist paradise Cypress before Turkish Invasions. Abandoned.)
  • Wadi Rum (46 Anthea went. Largest dry riverbed in Jordan)
  • Wegener's granulomatosis
    (46 Ry.an.R.)
  • Wire (band) (46 Pink Flag - A Bell is a Cup... Until it is Struck)
  • Wolf of Ansbach (46 man-eating wolf 1685 Holy Roman Empire)
  • Wolf of Gysinge (46 man-eating wolf 1820s attacked 31 people Sweden.)
  • Wolves of Ashta (46 pack of 6 man-eating Indian wolves 1985 )
  • Wonderism (46 By their sailors' yarns awakened a curiosity for the wonderful.)
  • Xuanxue (46 "mysterious learning" Chinese philosophy third to sixth century CE.)
  • Land Without Bread (46 Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan - a Surreal documentary "makes xian students want to take action".)
  • Living National Treasures of Japan
    (46 Steven & Danielle wish Laurie Anderson was Japanese: then she would be one.)
  • Mary Celeste (46 Most famous Ghost Ship.)
  • Pirahã language (46 Searle loves Andrew; His love for Chomsky is not so much.)
  • Bartolomeo Bimbi (46 Painter of citrus trees.)
  • Hee Haw (46 As watched by the Siamese Twins drinking Tab and Mt. Dew at the fair.)
  • List of events in the history of the San Francisco Police Department
    (46 Gerard, a dazzling historian ads '89.)
  • Mourning Dove
    (46 Coo Coo.)
  • Object relations theory (46 Except for Bowlby.)
  • Ponza (46 Largest of the Italian Pontine Islands archipelago. Named after Pontius Pilate.)
  • The Great Cat Massacre (46 In the Cathedral, cats roasting on Spits. Man and the Natural World.)
  • The Green Pastures (film) (46 1936 film of Bible Stories, All-Black cast.)
  • West Memphis Three (46 Set these people free, DNA says not guilty.)

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  • AM broadcasting (47 During day, AM signals travel by groundwave; after sunset, skywave)
  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (47 the phenomenon of the Professional Smile)
  • Ableism (47 inaccessibility, isolation, pity, paternalism)
  • Amanita muscaria (47 fly agaric, a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus)
  • Artificial neural network
    (47 mathematical or computational model inspired by biological neural networks)
  • Arundhati Roy (47 criticizes Narmada Dam project and Enron in India)
  • Autism Spectrum Quotient
    (47 33)
  • Blood Falls (47 the tongue of the Taylor Glacier, East Antarctica.)
  • British television science fiction (47 first SF TV ever was BBC 11 February 1938)
  • Chivito (sandwich) (47 national dish in Uruguay)
  • Dracaena cinnabari (47 Dragon Tree native to the Socotra archipelago)
  • Egodystonic
    (47 dreams, impulses, compulsions, desires, etc.) that are in conflict with needs / goals of the ego)
  • Fear of being touched
    (47 also known as aphephobia, haphephobia, haphophobia, hapnophobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, thixophobia)
  • First Earth Battalion (47 idea of a new military to be organized along New Age lines)
  • Fruits Basket (47 when things in paintings are signs of sad love affairs)
  • Gu (poison) (47 a venom-based poison made by mixing several venomous creatures (e.g., centipede, snake, scorpion)
  • Helicobacter pylori (47 More than 50% of the world's population harbor H. pylori in their upper gastrointestinal tract)
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara (47 Woman in the Dunes (砂の女) (1964); The Face of Another (他人の顔 Tanin no Kao) (1966)
  • Juliana Berners (47 English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting; prioress of Sopwell nunnery. First book on fishing by a woman.)
  • Karakuri ningyō
    (47 mechanized puppets or automata from Japan from the 17th century to 19th century)
  • Kruder & Dorfmeister (47 Sabine likes Austrian duo most known for their downtempo-dub remixes of pop, hip-hop and drum and bass songs)
  • Laphroaig
    (47 Stink bugs smell like Islay single malt Scotch whisky)
  • Liu Xiaobo (47 During his 4th prison term, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize)
  • Mad Love (1935 film) (47 first beast with five fingers...with Peter Lorre)
  • Magellanic Clouds (47 irregular dwarf galaxies visible in the southern hemisphere)
  • Map–territory relation (47 "the map is not the territory")
  • Mouflon (47 subspecies group of the wild sheep Ovis aries)
  • Never Let Me Go (2010 film) (47 Brit dystopian organ harvesting love story)
  • Olmec
    (47 Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico; colossal homes)
  • Personal life of Wilt Chamberlain
    (47 "I was just doing what was natural—chasing good-looking ladies, whoever they were and wherever they were available")
  • Petiole (insect)
    (47 the constricted metasomal segment of members of the Hymenopteran suborder Apocrita)
  • SOS Pacific (47 1959 film the realization soon dawns that they are in the midst of a H-Bomb testing range)
  • Scolopendra gigantea (47 Peruvian giant yellowleg centipede)
  • Shanghaiing (47 the practice of conscripting men as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence in port cities like San Francisco)
  • Shape (47 The shape of an object located in some space is the part of that space occupied by the object, as determined by its external boundary)
  • SoundCloud (47 George Baker house music remix)
  • Tanaka Hisashige (47 (1799-1881) The "Thomas Edison of Japan" or Karakuri Giemon)
  • Tasmanian Globster (47 Cryptozoologic monster on beach in Tasmania aka a whale)
  • The Face of Another (film) (47 a man "buried alive behind eyes without a face", the film adresses the illusive nature of identity and the agony of its absence.")
  • The Tao of Physics (47 Ivan likes An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism)
  • Toilets in Japan (47 an amazingly exhaustive overview)
  • Whale tail (47 The thong above your pants (happily a trend that has passed)
  • White Noise (novel) (47 airborne toxic event)
  • Yad (13 ritual pointer, used to point to the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls)

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Interesting things that don't have pages

  • China's 13-mile Dragon
  • What the filmmaker is doing is called Under cranking. If a film camera is filming at a very fast rate, you will get a slow motion shot. If the camera is filming at a very slow rate, the image will appear to be moving very fast. Film runs at 24 frames per second to get a real time image. If you only capture 12 frames per second, the image will move twice as fast. This is why old films from the teens and twenties will sometimes look like the people are moving comically fast. The cameras used to be hand cranked, so the human factor would affect the speed of the image. 28 Days Later was shot on digital video. The camera they used ran at 30 frames per second, so the effect was artificially simulated in editing, but the principle still applies. They may have even cut a few frames out here and there to achieve the desired effect.
  • Project Blue Beam Video
  • Psychomotor Education
  • Schick Sunn Classic Pictures
  • Mining Bottles
  • Anthropomorphic Taxidermy as opposed to Anthropomorphic Taxidermy
  • 19th c. representations of the surfaces of other planets
  • The fact that both Queen Hatshepsut and Emperor Hirohito studied Marine biology
  • Crank Medical Equipment
  • Chatelaine / aide memoire
  • Jules Raudnitz "The artist Jules Raudnitz (1815-72) brings 19th-century photography even closer to standard postmodern practice. In his series Bloody Sabbath he photographed reliefs, sculptured by an unknown artist, depicting various famous events from the Commune saga, then photographed and hand-colored them as stereograph slides."
  • The astrology tool that was on the Astrology page in summer 2006
  • Pervasive refusal syndrome
  • Katie Eary
  • Gang stalking
  • Shihan Hussaini (karate)
  • Strukturforschung
  • "The Village--although M Night blah blah blah claims he had the idea for the plot totally sui genesis--is identical to a 14th century French fable that was the subject of a really interesting annales school study in the 1980s. The original is super fascinating, Natalie z Davis mentions it in "fictions in the archives."
  • Roberto Cuoghi: "Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi burst onto the scene with a now-legendary 1998 "life-share" performance, in which he attempted to transform himself, for all intents and purposes, into his own father, swelling to more than 300 pounds, dying his hair white, and growing a beard. Essentially, Cuoghi voluntarily lived in the body of the much older, ailing man for several years, until his father passed away. According to reports, the long-lasting performance had extreme health effects, and even required surgery to return the artist to his younger self -- a bit like body modification art in reverse."
  • Diableries: One, Two, Three.
  • Robert Rabensteiner, "Mature Style".
  • Ray Charles (ink line)
  • Konapun
  • Léon Maxime Faivre
  • Xenophon Hellouin
  • Théophile Silvestre - art critic ?
  • Odiyan Copper Mountain Mandala
  • Dysanaesthesia
  • Asger Carlsen
  • Spectral tilt
  • Santiago Genovés Acali 1973 sex raft experiment

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