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Bad Idea Jeans — a commercial featuring scenes of people discussing what can be considered "bad ideas" (for example, "Thought about it and even though it's over, I'm gonna tell my wife about the affair."). After each scene, white text on a black background reads "BAD IDEA". Each scene also zooms in on each person wearing said jeans. [55]
A chain of events and influences led to the development of the scientific method, a process of observation and experimentation that is used to differentiate science from pseudoscience. [414] An understanding of mathematics is unique to humans, although other species of animals have some numerical cognition . [ 415 ]
The tendency to estimate that the likelihood of a remembered event is less than the sum of its (more than two) mutually exclusive components. [180] Tachypsychia: When time perceived by the individual either lengthens, making events appear to slow down, or contracts. [181] Telescoping effect
In several outbreaks, disease and death recorded by facility-based methods underestimated events by a factor of ten or more when compared with population-based estimates. Between 1960 and 1990, newspaper accounts of political deaths in Guatemala correctly reported over 50% of deaths in years of low violence but less than 5% in years of highest ...
Racemic methamphetamine may be prepared starting from phenylacetone by either the Leuckart [178] or reductive amination methods. [179] In the Leuckart reaction, one equivalent of phenylacetone is reacted with two equivalents of N -methylformamide to produce the formyl amide of methamphetamine plus carbon dioxide and methylamine as side products ...
As was customary everywhere until the nineteenth century, homosexuality was not viewed as a congenital disposition or 'identity'; the focus was on nonprocreative sexual practices, of which sodomy was the most controversial." For example, in al-Andalus "homosexual pleasures were much indulged by the intellectual and political elite. Evidence ...
A typical 105-key computer keyboard, consisting of sections with different types of keys. A computer keyboard consists of alphanumeric or character keys for typing, modifier keys for altering the functions of other keys, [1] navigation keys for moving the text cursor on the screen, function keys and system command keys—such as Esc and Break—for special actions, and often a numeric keypad ...