User:Saudade7

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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)
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 how much the Wikipedia has grown!!!

Contents

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

[edit] Animals and related

  • Andean Mountain Cat (one of the least known and rarest of all felines, none in captivity)
  • Animal Liberation Front
  • Animal chaplains (a depressing development)
  • Animal studies
  • Britches (monkey) (eyelids sewn shut as part of a three-year maternal- and sensory-deprivation study)
  • Cetacean intelligence (flipper)
  • Chunee (put to death in 1826 became a cause célèbre)
  • 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 1897to be extinct in the 1980s)
  • Hookworm (as Helminthic therapy)
  • Horse behavior (the behavior of horses, of course)
  • 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)
  • Perche (former province of northern France extending over the départements of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir and Sarthe. Percheron horses)
  • Petting zoo (a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed)
  • Polyp (one of two forms of individuals found in many species of cnidarians. The two are the polyp or hydroid and the medusa)
  • 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)
  • Tusko (The elephant on LSD)
  • Unnecessary Fuss (footage shot inside the University of Pennsylvania's Head Injury Clinic in Philadelphia)

[edit] Animal painters and sculptors

[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.
Horse.

[edit] Childhood

  • 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)

[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.
American bison.

[edit] Diseases

[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
  • 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] Environment and place

Fishes.
Fishes.

[edit] Food, drink and drugs

  • Jenkem (people sniffing poop)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Subtlety (an entertainment dish used in the Middle Ages. It was a type of entremets; peafowl and swans)

[edit] History, myth

[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] The people's art

  • 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)

[edit] Movies, television, radio

[edit] Music

[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] 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

[edit] Psychology related somehow

  • 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)
  • Cerebral achromatopsia (case of the colorblind artist)
  • Change blindness (fails to detect large changes in the scene)
  • Choice blindness (fail to detect conspicuous mismatches between expected choice and the actual outcome)
  • C. Lloyd Morgan (psychologist, behaviorism)
  • Comfort object (a stuffed animal, a favorite blanket)
  • Comparative psychology (behavior and mental life of animals)
  • Fugue state (abandonment of personal identity, memories, personality and other characteristics of individuality)
  • George Romanes (laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology)
  • 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)
  • Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys (painting his dreams)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (the mentally disabled, criminally insane, epileptics, and the poor; was notable for its population of rats)
  • Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union
  • Sandplay Therapy (form of psychotherapy for the purpose of healing through connection with the deep psyche)
  • 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)

[edit] Random people

[edit] Reading and writing, sorta

[edit] Religion

[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
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)
  • 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)
  • Der 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)</font
  • 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

[edit] Sortable Thingy I found on the Meteorite page...Lots of Possibilities

Book Name Date Country State or Province This is a test and a place to save this sortable thing
Aachen unknown Germany Nordrhein-Westfalen L5
Aarhus 1951-10-02 Denmark Arhus H6
Abee 1952-06-10 Canada Alberta EH4
Acapulco 1976-08-11 Mexico Guerrero Acapulcoite
Achiras 1902 Argentina Córdoba L6
Adhi Kot 1919-05-01 Pakistan Punjab EH4
Adzhi-Bogdo (stone) 1949-10-30 Mongolia Govi-Altay LL3
Agen 1814-09-05 France Aquitaine H5
Aguada 1930-09 Argentina Córdoba L6
Zvonkov 1955-09-02 Ukraine Kiev H6


First Category Second Category Third Category Forth Category Fifth Category Testing of Templaty Thing
Aachen unknown Germany Nordrhein-Westfalen L5 The true story of a flying squirrel
Aarhus 1951-10-02 Denmark Arhus H6 Barnaby Jones is a show that old people really enjoy
Abee 1952-06-10 Canada Alberta EH4 Yet certain physical characteristics of the universe remain mysterious, for instance the shape of the Earth
Acapulco 1976-08-11 Mexico Guerrero Acapulcoite Stop! said Karl Lagerfeld, Your feet are too big
Achiras 1902 Argentina Córdoba L6 If I had a hammer
Adhi Kot 1919-05-01 Pakistan Punjab EH4 Every morning at 5:00am the people from the market would begin their day
Adzhi-Bogdo (stone) 1949-10-30 Mongolia Govi-Altay LL3 No one is still talking about the new Radiohead album
Agen 1814-09-05 France Aquitaine H5 Breaker One-Nine, this is Teddy Bear
Aguada 1930-09 Argentina Córdoba L6 Blue water; Crystalline structure
Zvonkov 1955-09-02 Ukraine Kiev H6 Zeus was married to Hera by whom?


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