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• Wikipedia Survivorship bias - Wikipedia Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in…

  February 23 2020, 12:37pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia's Greatest Sex Illustrator Is an Anonymous Legend Take a look at the Wikipedia page for fisting. I'll wait. OK. Now check out pegging. When you're done there, have a gander at gokkun; after that, deep throating; and then maybe mammary intercourse, frot, tribadism, and tea bag (sexual act).

  February 28 2019, 3:54pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot - Wikipedia The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a project by Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely.

  February 28 2019, 3:53pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

  February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments

• Wikipedia Church of the SubGenius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Church of the SubGenius is a "parody religion"[citation needed] organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture.

  February 10 2015, 4:08am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• Wikipedia Otherkin Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a…

  May 1 2013, 2:02pm | Comments

• Wikipedia List of lists of lists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On this Encyclopedia, many lists themselves contain lists.

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:22am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Category:Body parts of individual people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Individual pieces of human anatomy which are famous in their own regard : #Wikipedia

  August 8 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

  July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

• Wikipedia moodlegoodpractice - home

  August 10 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

  June 26 2011, 11:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Experiments in the Revival of Organisms Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. It is available from the Prelinger Archives, and it is in the public domain. The British scientist J. B. S. Haldane…

  June 15 2011, 9:12am | Comments

• Wikipedia k12-gps - home

  June 14 2011, 10:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

  June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert It's high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners…

  May 30 2011, 2:04am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl "Learners are doers, not recipients." : Wikipedia and the death of the expert via @kimcascone

  May 30 2011, 1:01am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

  May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Transition (literary journal) - Wikipedia Tired of the spectacle of short stories, novels, poems and plays still under the hegemony of the banal word, monotonous syntax, static psychology, descriptive naturalism, and desirous of crystallizing a viewpoint… Narrative is not mere anecdote, but the projection of a metamorphosis of…

  October 12 2010, 5:09pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of situations where people lose sight…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

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• Wikipedia Survivorship bias - Wikipedia Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in…

  February 23 2020, 12:37pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia's Greatest Sex Illustrator Is an Anonymous Legend Take a look at the Wikipedia page for fisting. I'll wait. OK. Now check out pegging. When you're done there, have a gander at gokkun; after that, deep throating; and then maybe mammary intercourse, frot, tribadism, and tea bag (sexual act).

  February 28 2019, 3:54pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot - Wikipedia The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) was a project by Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) and Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. to develop a robotic vehicle that could forage for plant biomass to fuel itself, theoretically operating indefinitely.

  February 28 2019, 3:53pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

  February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments

• Wikipedia Church of the SubGenius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Church of the SubGenius is a "parody religion"[citation needed] organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture.

  February 10 2015, 4:08am | Comments

• Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

  June 2 2013, 6:54am | Comments

• Wikipedia Otherkin Otherkin are a community of people who see themselves as partially or entirely non-human. They contend that they are, in spirit if not in body,[2] not human. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a…

  May 1 2013, 2:02pm | Comments

• Wikipedia List of lists of lists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On this Encyclopedia, many lists themselves contain lists.

  April 18 2013, 4:54pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:52am | Comments

• Wikipedia Deleted articles with freaky titles Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity,…

  November 14 2012, 4:50am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:22am | Comments

• Wikipedia Ontogeny Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origin and the development of an organism – for example: from the fertilized egg to mature form. It covers in essence, the study of an organism's lifespan. The word "ontogeny" comes from the Greek ὄντος, ontos,…

  September 17 2012, 6:02am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 8 2012, 2:51am | Comments

• Wikipedia Category:Body parts of individual people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Individual pieces of human anatomy which are famous in their own regard : #Wikipedia

  August 8 2012, 2:40am | Comments

• Wikipedia Thoughts on Wikipedia's Future “Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work.” - Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic Earlier this month Wikipedia held its annual summit in Washington, DC. Afterwards, The Atlantic summarized the event in an article outlining how…

  August 1 2012, 8:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia Titivillus Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. The first reference to Titivillus by name occurred in Tractatus de Penitentia, c. 1285, by Johannes Galensis, John of Wales.[1] Titivillus…

  July 13 2012, 1:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the…

  October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments

• Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

  August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments

• Wikipedia moodlegoodpractice - home

  August 10 2011, 5:53pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Wikipedia Knowledge, not the way you knew it 17.000.000 articles. 91.000 active contributors. 270 languages. No matter what words one would choose to describe Wikipedia, numbers cannot speak but the truth: Wikipedia, which was set out as an “experiment” in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, nowadays constitutes the largest…

  June 28 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth Risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth are existential risks that could threaten humankind as a whole, have adverse consequences for the course of human civilization, or even cause the end of planet Earth.[1] The concept is expressed in various phrases such as…

  June 26 2011, 11:00am | Comments

• Wikipedia Experiments in the Revival of Organisms Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. It is available from the Prelinger Archives, and it is in the public domain. The British scientist J. B. S. Haldane…

  June 15 2011, 9:12am | Comments

• Wikipedia k12-gps - home

  June 14 2011, 10:07am | Comments

• Wikipedia GlitchWiki This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists,…

  June 12 2011, 3:59pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert It's high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners…

  May 30 2011, 2:04am | Comments

• Wikipedia Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl "Learners are doers, not recipients." : Wikipedia and the death of the expert via @kimcascone

  May 30 2011, 1:01am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space bats" originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poorly written alternate histories due to…

  May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Transition (literary journal) - Wikipedia Tired of the spectacle of short stories, novels, poems and plays still under the hegemony of the banal word, monotonous syntax, static psychology, descriptive naturalism, and desirous of crystallizing a viewpoint… Narrative is not mere anecdote, but the projection of a metamorphosis of…

  October 12 2010, 5:09pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Anhedonia In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia (< Greek ἀν- an-, "without" + ἡδονή hēdonē, "pleasure") is an inability to experience pleasurable emotions from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, social interaction or sexual activities. Anhedonia is seen in the mood disorders, schizophrenia,…

  September 27 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't comprehensive or authoritative, but it serves as a showcase of situations where people lose sight…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

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