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  • Ultra-short-period planets have orbits of less than a day.

    October 19, 2009

  • Ultra-short-period planets have orbits of less than a day.

    October 19, 2009

  • Planetary-mass objects that were formed in a similar way as stars, yet do not orbit normal stars.

    October 19, 2009

  • See: l'esprit de l'escalier?

    October 15, 2009

  • Venture corpuscularian?

    October 15, 2009

  • See: corpuscular and atomism.

    October 15, 2009

  • See also: quadrille.

    October 15, 2009

  • See also cotillion.

    October 15, 2009

  • See also: quadrille and whist.

    October 15, 2009

  • Confucius suggested studying and teaching methods such as elicitation and advocated a discussion method among his disciples and himself. See also John Dewey.

    October 15, 2009

  • At 4884 meters, Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) is the tallest mountain between the Himalayas and the Andes.

    July 24, 2009

  • http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/index.html

    July 24, 2009

  • See: carstensz.

    July 24, 2009

  • zulu time - We should arrive there at 1700Z today. The Z means Zulu which means UTC which means Universal Time Coordinated which means Greenwich Mean Time GMT. Used in Antararctica.

    July 24, 2009

  • zulu time - We should arrive there at 1700Z today. The Z means Zulu which means UTC which means Universal Time Coordinated which means Greenwich Mean Time GMT. Used in Antararctica.

    July 24, 2009

  • zulu time - We should arrive there at 1700Z today. The Z means Zulu which means UTC which means Universal Time Coordinated which means Greenwich Mean Time GMT.

    July 24, 2009

  • zulu time - We should arrive there at 1700Z today. The Z means Zulu which means UTC which means Universal Time Coordinated which means Greenwich Mean Time GMT.

    July 24, 2009

  • Unit load devices also known as cans and pods, are closed containers made of aluminum or combination of aluminum frame and Lexan walls, used to load luggage, freight, and mail on aircraft.

    June 19, 2009

  • See: request for tenders.

    June 19, 2009

  • Request for tenders, Reversals Frequency Test, Relational Frame Theory, Right First Time, Rat für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung (German: Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development).

    June 19, 2009

  • Request for proposals.

    June 19, 2009

  • See: pro forma.

    June 19, 2009

  • See: pro forma invoice.

    June 19, 2009

  • Hazard analysis and critical control point

    June 19, 2009

  • Earnings per share.

    June 19, 2009

  • Local Operations and Classical Communication

    June 19, 2009

  • Entanglement literally or Quantum entanglement.

    June 19, 2009

  • See: Verschränkung and Heisenberg effect.

    June 19, 2009

  • See also: Schrödinger's cat and Verschränkung.

    June 19, 2009

  • “The Quality Without a Name" - Christopher Alexander

    June 12, 2009

  • Silk protein used in shampoos etc.

    June 2, 2009

  • In Greece was used as red cheek makeup, also a dye made from root described by Pliny.

    June 2, 2009

  • Check PRÉCIS.

    June 2, 2009

  • See: precis, not precise.

    June 2, 2009

  • Also: PRÉCIS

    June 2, 2009

  • Was the summer capital and health resort of the British in pre-Independence days. link

    May 28, 2009

  • See: dgahc.

    May 28, 2009

  • Darjeeling Gorkha Autonomous Hill Council, originally known as Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), now GHC is an autonomous body that looks after the administration of the District of Darjeeling in the state of West Bengal, India.

    May 28, 2009

  • Situation of perception, presupposed-shared frame; how Buhler describes Wegener's view of language as embedded in a matrix of action and preunderstood meanings and intentions beyond articulation.

    April 24, 2009

  • Material knowledge or Peircean collateral knowledge.

    April 24, 2009

  • The American Miscellaneous Society formed in 1952 when Office of Naval Research geophysicists Gordon Lill and Carl Alexis found themselves handling research proposals that fit into no existing scientific categories.

    April 24, 2009

  • Center for Deep Earth Research, is a collaborative effort with contributory support of the United States, several European countries, Canada, China and South Korea.

    April 24, 2009

  • A consortium of Continental, Union, Superior and Shell Oil Companies.

    April 24, 2009

  • Seismic velocity discontinuity between lower mantle and outer-liquid core. After German geophysicist Beno Gutenberg who proposed idea from 1915-25. See Lehmann Discontinuity and Moho.

    April 24, 2009

  • Inge Lehmann 1935 Denmark - found below Moho and Gutenberg Discontinuity seperates outer liquid core from inner solid core. This is suggested by the increase in p-wave speed.

    April 23, 2009

  • Secondary or shear wave (sometimes called an elastic S-wave) is one of the two main types of elastic body waves that move through the body of an object, unlike surface waves. The S-wave moves as a transverse wave, so motion is perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. See p-wave.

    April 23, 2009

  • Seismic wave can travel through gases, elastic solids, and liquids, including the Earth. Can be produced by earthquakes and recorded by seismometers. This primary wave is faster than the S-wave. Discovery of the speed increase of p-waves across Lehmann Discontinuity suggests Earth has a solid core.

    April 23, 2009

  • Name dervived from Andrija Mohorovi�?ić, a Croatian seismologist who observed abrupt increase in the velocity of earthquake P-waves. See Lehmann Discontinuity and Gutenberg Discontinuity.

    April 23, 2009

  • Lithosphere link.

    April 23, 2009

  • J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc., an animation/graphic design studio they est. 1990 in White Plains, NY.

    April 22, 2009

  • Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science - link

    April 22, 2009

  • See mouse type.

    April 22, 2009

  • See mouse type.

    April 22, 2009

  • Very small type (fineprint), usually at the end of a document or in an inconspicuous place within it, containing details of which the reader must be informed but to which the source or publisher may not wish to call attention.

    April 22, 2009

  • Erroneously spelled with an "e" - many people list mamihlapinatapai. Sometimes not so succinct, but what do expect from a language with one native speaker.

    April 22, 2009

  • Also erroneously spelled with an "e" - many people list mamihlapinatapei.

    April 22, 2009

  • Contributes to conservation, sustainability of environment, ecosystem productivity and biodiversity by conducting long-term research in ecological science including human dimensions. link

    April 16, 2009

  • Global Center of Excellence

    April 16, 2009

  • Let us serve — the Cate School motto.

    April 16, 2009

  • Maps relations and measures influence allowing you to see the news by visually showing the connections between people, companies and organizations.

    April 16, 2009

  • A comprehensive institution of education from kindergarten to graduate school level, within a single campus.

    April 16, 2009

  • Home vegetable garden.

    April 16, 2009

  • "Wisdom’s eye penetrates the truth" from the Buddhist sutra, Daimuryôjukyô.

    April 16, 2009

  • Japanese pun relying on similarities in the pronunciation of words to create a simple joke.

    April 2, 2009

  • Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species. Program of The Zoological Society of London.

    April 2, 2009

  • Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym

    April 2, 2009

  • See: Nickel and Dimed.

    April 1, 2009

  • See: nickel and dimed & five and ten & five and dime & dimestore.

    April 1, 2009

  • See: variety store & nickel and dimed & five and dime & dimestore.

    April 1, 2009

  • See: variety store & nickel and dimed & five and dime & dimestore.

    April 1, 2009

  • 1. Expose to financial hardship or bankruptcy by the accumulation of small expenses. 2. Barbara Ehrenreich book that investigates the impact of 1996 welfare reform on the "working poor" in the US. See: variety store & five and ten & five and dime & dimestore.

    April 1, 2009

  • Turrets (Hebrew) from Song of Songs 4:4

    April 1, 2009

  • Energy Information Administration link

    April 1, 2009

  • Visual Basic for Applications is a programming language in Microsoft Office and other applications.

    March 30, 2009

  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

    March 30, 2009

  • International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use

    March 30, 2009

  • The Therapeutic Goods Administration.

    March 30, 2009

  • See: pmdd.

    March 30, 2009

  • See: pmdd.

    March 30, 2009

  • American Psychiatric Association

    March 30, 2009

  • Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or severe PMS. Originally called late luteal phase dysphoric disorder, LLPDD, the disorder was renamed PMDD by the American Psychiatric Association APA in May 1993.

    March 30, 2009

  • cognitive behavioral therapy

    March 30, 2009

  • The American College of Cardiology

    March 30, 2009

  • adenosine monophosphate

    March 30, 2009

  • Go to macro for more.

    March 30, 2009

  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry

    March 30, 2009

  • Aka: thyrotropin

    March 30, 2009

  • Aka: TSH for thyroid stimulating hormone.

    March 30, 2009

  • See: nuée ardente.

    March 24, 2009

  • Also nuee ardente see: pyroclastic flow

    March 24, 2009

  • n: type of mass wasting involving gradual downhill movement of soil and regolith. May be caused by the alternate expansion and contraction of surface material (by freezing and thawing, or wetting and drying) upward at right angles to the slope and downward through gravity.

    March 24, 2009

  • Sound mind in a sound body. See ASICS fitness apparel company, and origin mens sana in corpore sano.

    March 24, 2009

  • From the famous phrase by a Roman lampoonist named Juvenails, "Mens Sana In Corpore Sano" (If you pray to God, you should pray for a sound mind in a sound body) the late founder of ASICS, Kihachiro Onitsuka took the initial letters of the phrase, changing the "Mens" to "Anima" which gives more of an active nuance of the mind. Go to Anima Sana In Corpore Sano

    March 24, 2009

  • See: Anima Sana in Corpore Sano Est. Kobe, Japan 1949 with products today that are almost all PVC free. Those made either 100% recycled material or in part will soon exceed one thousand items, and have been awarded ISO14001 certification. They believe sport has a positive effect on the body and soul, and has a universal meaning that overcomes cultural differences and contributes to improve solidarity.

    March 24, 2009

  • See: gesundheit.

    February 26, 2009

  • See ague.

    February 26, 2009

  • Also gesundheit.

    February 26, 2009

  • Achoo! see gesundheit.

    February 26, 2009

  • The motto Ancora Imparo is attributed to Michelangelo and means 'I am still learning' or "Still, I am learning". It is also the motto of the University of Monash founded in Australia 1958, with campuses in Malaysia and South Africa.

    February 26, 2009

  • The Delaware Bay region is home to the largest population of the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), found along the western shores of the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to the Yucatan. Another three species live in the coastal waters from Japan to Indonesia. Related to scorpions, ticks and land spiders, horseshoe crabs have their own classification (Class Merostomata). Each spring during the high tides of the new and full moons, thousands of horseshoe crabs descend on the Delaware Bay shoreline to spawn. Males, two-thirds the size of their mates, cluster along the water's edge as the females arrive. With glove-like claws on its first pair of legs, the male hangs on to the female's shell and is pulled up the beach to the high tide line. The female pauses every few feet to dig a hole and deposit as many as 20,000 green, birdshot-sized eggs. The male then fertilizes the eggs as he is pulled over the nest. After the spawning is complete, the crabs leave and the waves wash sand over the nest. Despite their size and intimidating appearance, horseshoe crabs are not dangerous. It's tail, while menacing, is not a weapon. Instead, the tail is used to plow the crab through the sand and muck, to act as a rudder, and to right the crab when it accidentally tips over. Their central mouth is surrounded by its legs and while harmless, it is advisable to handle a horseshoe crab with care since you could pinch your fingers between the two parts of its shell while holding it. Horseshoe crabs have 2 compound eyes on the top of their shells with a range of about 3 feet. The eyes are used for locating mates. Horseshoe crabs can swim upside down in the open ocean using their dozen legs and a flap hiding nearly 200 flattened gills to propel themselves. Horseshoe crabs feed mostly at night and burrow for worms and mollusks. Horseshoe crabs grow by molting and emerge 25 percent larger with each molt. After 16 molts (9-12 years) they will be fully grown adults. The medical profession uses an extract from the horseshoe crab's blue, copper-based blood called lysate to test the purity of medicines. Certain properties of the shell have also been used to speed blood clotting and to make absorbable sutures.

    February 26, 2009

  • See Horseshoe Crab whose scientific name, Limulus means "odd" and polyphemus refers to the giant in greek mythology. It is based on the misleading idea that the animal had a single eye.

    February 26, 2009

  • The term adivasi refers to the indigenous people of India, who belong to remote tribal groups and speak many different dialects.

    February 26, 2009

  • The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing site Flickr based on Zeitgeist a visualization of Web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularized by Del.icio.us, Redrover and Technorati. The first published appearance of a tag cloud, or weighted list as the "subconscious files" in Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs."

    February 18, 2009

  • Looking at each other hoping that either will offer to do something that both parties desire but are unwilling to do. Title of one of my paintings.

    February 18, 2009

  • Wifi rabbit; click 'W' for more...

    February 18, 2009

  • U.S.P. designation for United States Pharmacopoeia.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv for q.i.d. quater in die = four times a day.

    February 18, 2009

  • q.i.d. = four times a day.

    February 18, 2009

  • Quaque die = everyday.

    February 18, 2009

  • Every day, Rx abbv q.d.

    February 18, 2009

  • L. is abbreviated in Rx as 'troche' for trochiscus.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv. troche = lozenge.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv - o.s. = oculus sinister = left eye. (od=right=dexter)

    February 18, 2009

  • See: od

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv - o.s. = left eye. (od=right=dexter)

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv - o.u. oculus uterque both eyes.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv - o.u. oculus uterque both eyes.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbreviation prn = as needed.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv. pro re nata = as needed.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv/ mist. for mistura = mix.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv for: mist. = mix

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv for: N.M.T. not more than.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv. for: coal tar solution.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbreviation h.s. hora somni at bedtime.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv h.s. = at bedtime

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv. gtt(s) gutta(e) drop(s)

    February 18, 2009

  • Fiat Rx abbv.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbreviated (ft) make; let it be made.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx - dieb. alt. = every other day.

    February 18, 2009

  • "With food" Rx abbv. cum cibos.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv. for Bis in die.

    February 18, 2009

  • Twice daily Rx - bid.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx - auris utraque = both ears.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx- au = both ears.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx abbv. for auris sinistra, left ear.

    February 18, 2009

  • auris sinistra.

    February 18, 2009

  • Also auris laeva, left ear.

    February 18, 2009

  • Rx- use as much as one desires; freely.

    February 18, 2009

  • See: ad libitum.

    February 18, 2009

  • Auris dextra.

    February 18, 2009

  • Right ear.

    February 18, 2009

  • Before meals.

    February 18, 2009

  • Short for ante cibum on Rx.

    February 18, 2009

  • This is the A in CAT scan. The C is Computerized.

    February 18, 2009

  • n. acronym for: computerized axial tomography.

    February 18, 2009

  • See: CAT scan

    February 18, 2009

  • Does anybody on Wordie use a Chumby for Twitter?

    February 18, 2009

  • Chumby™ is Wi-Fi that you can squeeze. This bean bag with a 3.5-inch touch screen and speakers, provides streaming access to social networking sites, podcasts, interactive games, sports scores and stock tips. Update your Twitter by shaking your Chumby™. Configure a message for each orientation. You will have three options on shake and one each on east, west, and south orientations. Chumby™ delivers your favorite parts of the Internet, with over 1,000 widgets from CBS, MTV Networks, New York Times, and Weather Channel Interactive. Chumby™ also offers user generated content as well as thousands of Internet radio stations, the ability to share photos, video conferencing, e-cards and more with family and friends. Stephen Tomlin, CEO Chumby™ from headquarters in San Diego, CA. link

    February 18, 2009

  • Zotero (zoh-TAIR-oh) is a free, Firefox extension that helps collect, manage, and cite your research sources within the web browser. link

    February 18, 2009

  • On the Eloquence of Vernacular: see Dante

    February 14, 2009

  • The study of linguistic factors that place a discourse in context.

    February 14, 2009

  • Linguistic structures that are pairings of meaning and form; may consist of sound patterns, movements of the hands, and written symbols.

    February 14, 2009

  • Latin translation of Robert of Chester entitled Liber algebrae et almucabala

    February 12, 2009

  • Al-Jabr means "reunion" from the longer title of the 9th century book by al-Khw�?rizmī. The word algorithm derives from his name.

    February 12, 2009

  • The study of population statistics.

    February 12, 2009

  • Shoes with square toes and no heels.

    February 10, 2009

  • (n): Prosperity, happiness; The welfare of the community, the general good.

    February 5, 2009

  • Latin(adverb) - At full length.

    February 4, 2009

  • The language of the Sun; characters like ancient Sanskrit. Of this ancient mystery language, Blavatsky says there was "during the youth of mankind, one language, one knowledge, one universal religion" (I, 341). In this idea, H.P.B. is echoing Ralston Skinner, who in a passage quoted in The Secret Doctrine postulates "an ancient language which modernly and up to this time appears to have been lost, the vestiges of which, however, abundantly exist" (I, 308).

    February 4, 2009

  • Kumbum tree is supposed to grow only in Tibet and to have sprung originally from one of the hairs of the Lama Tsong-Kha-pa, an avatar of the Buddha. Blavatsky quotes an account by the Abbe Huc, who says that the leaves and, if the bark is peeled off, different characters appear on the inner layers. The writing on the Kumbum tree is in the Sansar language and contains in extenso the whole history of creation, and the sacred books of Buddhism.

    February 4, 2009

  • Access hypochondria.

    January 31, 2009

  • The term hypochondria was coined by the ancient Greeks from Hypo = below + Chondros = cartilage (of the ribs). It was their opinion that the set of symptoms originated just below the ribs (i.e. in the upper abdomen). So, sit up straight and don't slouch. They also believed that the psychological symptoms which often accompanied the ailment were the result of the illness. See: cyberchondria.

    January 31, 2009

  • Volcano to erupt soon in AK. Click second square for more (The Free Dictionary). Two other mts with same name are in Banff and WA.

    January 30, 2009

  • Temperature of interstellar space.

    January 30, 2009

  • See: outrecuidance.

    January 30, 2009

  • Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, written in 593. Anthology of the miracles of Italian holy men. (flowers lit.)

    January 30, 2009

  • See: Anthony the Great.

    January 30, 2009

  • See: Tonsure, Rassophore, Stavrophore & Eskiem.

    January 30, 2009

  • See: Eskiem, Rassophore, Stavrophore & Schema.

    January 30, 2009

  • See: Tonsure, Rassophore, Stavrophore & Schema.

    January 30, 2009

  • See: homilist

    January 30, 2009

  • Term used for newspaper in general, to carry fish home from the market, implying sly wit in expressing the coastal nature of a publication, or as a derrogatory for bad or useless print and writing.

    January 29, 2009

  • Also spelled, "l'esprit de l'escalier" and the German, Treppenwitz.

    January 29, 2009

  • Pronounced "cow-na" this is a word with hidden meaning, as in Hawaiian poetry; concealed reference, as to a person, thing, or place; words with double meanings.

    January 29, 2009

  • Life without learning is death, and the funeral of a living man.

    January 29, 2009

  • "Life without learning is death", appears on all variations of the school seal of Adelphi U. NY, est. 1869.

    January 29, 2009

  • Specifically: volcanic breccia.

    January 29, 2009

  • Just breccia.

    January 29, 2009

  • Visit Newquay.

    January 29, 2009

  • The Beatles filmed part of the Magical Mystery Tour film in Newquay. (Scenes were filmed at the Atlantic Hotel and Towan Beach). Seaside resort and fishing port on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, Great Britain. A quay is a wharf or bank where ships and other vessels are loaded. A quay may be constructed parallel or perpendicular to the bank of a waterway. In 1439 the local Burghers applied to Bishop Lacey of Exeter for leave and funds to build a "New quay" - word is commonly used in the UK. link

    January 29, 2009

  • Some like the short form, gondwana.

    January 29, 2009

  • See the original: gondwanaland

    January 29, 2009

  • See: Laconophilia

    January 29, 2009

  • See: Amicable numbers & 284

    January 29, 2009

  • See: Amicable numbers & 220

    January 29, 2009

  • See: limaçon (Heart-like shape for Valentines Day)

    January 28, 2009

  • See: placozoan & syncytium

    January 28, 2009

  • See: Eumetazoa & syncytium

    January 28, 2009

  • In Persian and Iranian legends, the mighty Gaokerena "ox horn" was a mythic Haoma plant that had healing properties when eaten and juice from its fruit gave the elixir of immortality.

    January 22, 2009

  • See soma & gaokerena & rhyton.

    January 22, 2009

  • In Persian and Iranian legends, the mighty Gaokerena "ox horn" was a mythic Haoma plant that had healing properties when eaten and juice from its fruit gave the elixir of immortality.

    January 22, 2009

  • National Center for Biotechnology Information - creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. link

    January 22, 2009

  • 1) Entrez - French second person plural (or formal) form of the verb "to enter", meaning literally "come in". 2) Global web portal link that allows users to search health sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. NCBI

    January 22, 2009

  • Soybeans are the most common source of isoflavones in human food; the major isoflavones in soybean are genistein and daidzein.

    January 22, 2009

  • Naringenin is sequentially converted in to the isoflavone genistein by two legume-specific enzymes, isoflavone synthase, and a dehydratase.

    January 22, 2009

  • See also: haoma.

    January 22, 2009

  • Hebrew from Askenazic Jewish tradition: po nikbar or po nitman, meaning "Here Lies" and Sephardic custom is matzevet kevurat, meaning "the tombstone of the grave." matzevah, Matzeivah (stone pillar, monument) matzevat even (pillar of stone) matzevet (monument, idol images, stone pillars, monuments).ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. is customarily put on the bottom of a monument. These letters are an acronym for the Hebrew words תה�? נפשו/ה צרורה בצרור החיי�? (t'hay nafsho/ah tzrurah b'tzror hachaim), "May his/her soul be bound up in the bond of life." This paraphrases the words that Abigail told King David in I Samuel 25:29, "But my lord's soul shall be bound in the bond of life with the L-rd your G‑d."

    January 22, 2009

  • Conferences; Symposion oder häufiger latinisiert Symposium (Plural Symposien).

    January 22, 2009

  • Olympus, entirely light, and replete with separate forms, where is the seat of the immortal gods, deum domus alta...

    January 22, 2009

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