10 Oct 25

Is the specific way in which organisms of a particular species perceive and experience the world, shaped by the capabilities of their sensory organs and perceptual systems.

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11 May 25

Is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age.

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The Steps Method is a method to teach children to play chess. A large number of schools and chess clubs use this method for their chess lessons.

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10 May 25

30 Apr 25

The name comes from the common (but false) legend that ostriches bury their heads in the sand to avoid danger.

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A frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out.

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20 Apr 25

The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson’s 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.

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~30 minutes episodes on essential science and protocols discussed on Huberman’s podcast

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16 Apr 25

The view that the mind or a mind-like aspect is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality.

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14 Apr 25

The Tank Man is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989.

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A rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, without regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.

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13 Apr 25

Short-term memory loss when passing through a doorway or moving from one location to another.

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07 Apr 25

First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet.

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A metaphor to describe the theory that large language models, though able to generate plausible language, do not understand the meaning of the language they process.

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6 games playable with a standard deck of cards.

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Classics in e-book format.

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