User:Saudade7

Bienvenue! (I like this image because it seems 3-D somehow. The longer I stare at it the more it becomes a milky blue sphere suspended in a velvety black void)

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!!!

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

Who Watches The Watchlist?

[edit] Animals and related

Insects, Spiders and Worms etc.

• Bedbug (lives by hematophagy)
• Colony Collapse Disorder (drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honey bee colonies)
• Earwig (fanciful notion that earwigs burrow into the brains of humans through the ear and therein lay their eggs)
• Giant Palouse earthworm (Washington state, Idaho; discovered in 1897 to be extinct in the 1980s)
• Hookworm (as Helminthic therapy)

Sea creatures

• Cetacean intelligence (flipper)
• Polyp (one of two forms of individuals found in many species of cnidarians. The two are the polyp or hydroid and the medusa)
• Small shelly fauna (the tiny tiny shells on the beach)
• Wentletrap (very high-spired, predatory sea snails)

Horses

• Horse behavior (the behavior of horses, of course)
• Perche (former province of northern France extending over the départements of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir and Sarthe. Percheron horses)

Elephants

• Chunee (put to death in 1826 became a cause célèbre)
• Crushing by elephant (define)
• List of historical elephants ( self-explanatory)
• Tusko (The elephant on LSD)

Wolves

• Beast of Gévaudan (define)
• Wolves of Paris (define)

Animal X-files

• Animals in space (self explanatory)
• Drop bear (unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping)
• Exploding whale (dead sperm whale was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass)
• Rat king (folklore) (tangled up in tails)

Hunting

• Taxidermy (Deyrolle)

Animal Rights

• Animal Liberation Front
• Animal studies
• Britches (monkey) (eyelids sewn shut as part of a three-year maternal- and sensory-deprivation study)
• Stable vices (bad habits of equines, especially horses. They usually develop as a result of being confined with insufficient exercise)
• The Plague Dogs (film) (two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain)
• Unnecessary Fuss (footage shot inside the University of Pennsylvania's Head Injury Clinic in Philadelphia)

Animals in general

• Andean Mountain Cat (one of the least known and rarest of all felines, none in captivity)
• Animal chaplains (a depressing development)
• Deer (deer stag chevreuil)
• List of animal names (foal filly colt heard flock covey brace)
• Petting zoo (a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed)
• The Puppy Channel (now available on DVD)
• Tillamook Cheddar (dog) (Define)
• Zarafa (giraffe given to Charles X of France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt)

[edit] Animal painters and sculptors

• Achille Fould (19th c. woman artist, painted portrait of Rosa Bonheur)
• Charles Jacque (a French painter of animals (animalier) and engraver)
• Constant Troyon (an animal painter of the first rank)
• Cornelius Van Leemputten (predominantly known for his landscapes with sheep)
• Jacques Raymond Brascassat ("Lutte de taureaux (1837), and Vache attaquee par des loups (1845))
• Karel Dujardin (Dutch animal and landscape painter)
• Pierre-Jules Mêne (French Sculptor and Animalière. Pioneer of animal sculpture in the 19th c.)
• Rosa Bonheur (19th century French woman animal painter)

[edit] 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?)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Childhood

• Apache tears (a kind of nodular obsidian (volcanic black glass))
• Bloody Mary (folklore) (woman in the mirror - you die of fright)
• Gum wrapper chain (halcyon days of youth)
• Liz Damon's Orient Express (Esther Macumber’s mom’s album from Hawai’I – "Walking Backwards Down the Road")
• Skywriting (making words in the sky; halcyon days of youth)
• Scoubidou (a plaiting and knotting craft, for children, originating in France, became a fad in the late 1950s; halcyon days of youth)
• Radioluminescence (produced in a material by the bombardment of ionizing radiation such as beta particles)
• Thunderegg (geode)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Disasters

American bison.

• 1755 Lisbon earthquake (natural disaster and Gene's book)
• Cando event (described as being like a small Tunguska Event)
• Cumbre Vieja (will completely destroy Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Miami)
• Halifax Explosion (6.12.1917, City of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, devastated by huge detonation of a French cargo ship)
• List of environmental disasters
• PEPCON disaster (industrial disaster, Nevada on May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant)
• Tunguska event (explosion felled an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers)
• Year Without a Summer (the Poverty Year, The Year There Was No Summer or Eighteen hundred and froze to death, was 1816)

[edit] 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)
• Toxoplasma gondii (Parasite that makes us love cats)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)
• Tietze's syndrome (When Seth thinks he’s having a heart attack)

[edit] End of the world

• Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Saving (someone) from Monsanto one seed at a time...)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)
• Paleolithic style diet (emulates the dietary patterns of the various human species living during the Paleolithic (the Old Stone Age))
• 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)
• 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))

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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...)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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!)

[edit] Psychology related somehow

• Automatic writing (define)
• Bicameralism (psychology) (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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Stores of my childhood

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)
• 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)

[edit] Remaining to be sorted

• Anechoic chamber (a room in which there are no echoes)

• Brocken spectre (the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer)