Vocabulary: Arcane

Oniomania

Oniomania (from Greek ὤνιος onios “for sale” and μανία mania “insanity”) is the technical term for the compulsive desire to shop, more commonly referred to as compulsive shopping, shopping addiction, shopaholism, compulsive buying disorder.
Oniomania, 2012-12-21

Precocial

Learned the word Precocial. Hares are prococial, while rabbits are not. It's a biology term. If a animal's young is relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching, it is called precocial. The opposite term is Altricial.
Precocial = (of hatchlings) covered with down and having eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days

sequestration

In ancient China, for heavy crimes including adultery, “licentious” or “promiscuous” activity, males had their penises removed in addition to being castrated. It was one of the Five Punishments that could be legally inflicted on criminals in China. They were designed to permanently disfigure for life. “Castration”, in China, meant severing of the penis in addition to the testicles, after which male offenders were sentenced to work in the palace as eunuchs. The punishment was called “gongxing” (宫刑), which meant “palace punishment”, since men castrated would be enslaved to work in the harem of the palace. It was also called “fuxing” (腐刑). Husbands who committed adultery were punished with castration as required under Zhou Dynasty law. While men were castrated, women who committed adultery were punished by confinement. The exact crime was called Gong, and referred to “immoral” heterosexual sex between males and females. The punishment stated- “If a male and female engagein intercourse without morality, their punishments shall be castration and sequestration [respectively].”
Penis removal,

neonate

Rattlesnakes are predators who live in a wide array of habitats, hunting small animals such as birds and rodents. They kill their prey with a venomous bite. All rattlesnakes possess a set of fangs with which they inject large quantities of hemotoxic venom. The venom travels through the bloodstream, destroying tissue and causing swelling, internal bleeding, and intense pain. Some species, such as the Mojave Rattlesnake, additionally possess a neurotoxic component in their venom that causes paralysis and other nervous symptoms.

The threat of envenomation, advertised with the shaking of the rattle, deters many predators. However, rattlesnakes fall prey to hawks, weasels, king snakes, and a variety of other species. Rattlesnakes are heavily preyed upon as neonates, while they are still weak and mentally immature. Very large numbers of rattlesnakes are killed by humans. Rattlesnake populations in many areas are severely threatened by habitat destruction, poaching, and extermination campaigns.

Rattlesnake,

scuttle

During the 1980s go-fast boats became the drug-smuggling vessel of choice in many parts of the world. These boats can be detected by radar; as radar coverage improved, Colombian drug cartels started using less easily detected semi-submersibles from the 1990s.

The first time the U.S. Coast Guard found one, authorities dubbed it Bigfoot because they had heard rumors that such things existed, but none had actually been seen. It was late 2006 when a Bigfoot was seized 145 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of Costa Rica carrying several tons of cocaine. In 2006 US officials say they detected three; in 2008 they were spotting an average of ten per month, but only one out of ten was intercepted. Few were seized as their crews scuttle them upon interception and they sink within a minute or so.

Narco submarine,

ethology

Ethology (from Greek: ἦθος, ethos, “character”; and -λογία, -logia, “the study of”) is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a sub-topic of zoology.

Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behaviour throughout history, the modern discipline of ethology is generally considered to have begun during the 1930s with the work of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologists Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, joint winners of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ethology is a combination of laboratory and field science, with a strong relation to certain other disciplines such as neuroanatomy, ecology, and evolution. Ethologists are typically interested in a behavioral process rather than in a particular animal group, and often study one type of behavior (e.g. aggression) in a number of unrelated animals.

Ethology,

Effervescence

Effervescence is the escape of gas from an aqueous solution and the foaming or fizzing that results from a release of the gas. The word effervescence is derived from the Latin verb fervere preceded by the adverb ex, which means to boil. It has the same linguistic root as the word fermentation, a complex biochemical reaction leading amongst others to the production of carbon dioxide and to the subsequent liberation of CO2 gas from the solution when this latter becomes supersaturated with respect to this gas. The making of beer, wine, or champagne, by fermentation is thus also accompanied by effervescence of CO2 from the barrel where the process occurs.
Effervescence,

locomotion

Knuckle-walking is a form of quadrupedal walking in which the forelimbs hold the fingers in a partially flexed posture that allows body weight to press down on the ground through the knuckles.

Gorillas and chimpanzees use this style of locomotion as do anteater and platypuses.

Anthropologists once thought that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans engaged in knuckle-walking, and humans evolved upright walking from knuckle-walking: a view thought to be supported by reanalysis of overlooked features on hominid fossils.

Since then, scientists discovered Ardipithecus ramidus, a human-like hominid descended from the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. Ar. ramidus engaged in upright walking, but not knuckle-walking. This leads scientists to conclude that chimpanzees evolved knuckle-walking after they split from humans 6 million years ago, and humans evolved upright walking without knuckle-walking.

Knuckle-walking,

technophilia

Neo-Luddism is a personal world view opposing any modern technology. Its name is based on the historical legacy of the British Luddites which were active between 1811 and 1816. Neo-Luddism includes the critical examination of the effects technology has on individuals and communities.

Reform Luddism is an offshoot of Neo-Luddism and represents a personal world view skeptical of modern technology and critical of its many purported benefits.

Both Reform Luddism and Neo-Luddism express significant doubts about the nature of benefits from uncritically embracing new information technology. Neo-Luddism holds the belief that we were better off before its advent and is the opposite of technophilia, the belief that technological innovation will remedy all ills.

Neo-Luddism,

Caesarean section

A Caesarean section, is a surgical procedure in which one or more incisions are made through a mother's abdomen (laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) to deliver one or more babies, or, rarely, to remove a dead fetus. A late-term abortion using Caesarean section procedures is termed a hysterotomy abortion (not to be confused with hysterectomy) and is very rarely performed. The first modern Caesarean section was performed by German gynecologist Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer in 1881.

A Caesarean section is usually performed when a vaginal delivery would put the baby's or mother's life or health at risk. More recently it has been performed upon request for childbirths that may otherwise have been natural. In recent years the rate has risen to a record level of 46% in China and to levels of 25% and above in many Asian, European and Latin American countries. In 2007, in the United States, the Caesarean section rate was 31.8%. Across Europe, there are significant differences between countries: in Italy the Caesarean section rate is 40%, while in the Nordic countries it is only 14%.

Caesarean section,

numeronyms

The terms are frequently abbreviated to the numeronyms i18n (where 18 stands for the number of letters between the first i and last n in “internationalization”, a usage coined at DEC in the 1970s or 80s) and L10n respectively, due to the length of the words. The capital L in L10n helps to distinguish it from the lowercase i in i18n.

ethnology

Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning “people, nation, race”) is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity.
Ethnology,

Anthropology

Anthropology is the academic study of humanity. It deals with all that is characteristic of the human experience, from physiology and the evolutionary origins to the social and cultural organization of human societies as well as individual and collective forms of human experience. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term “anthropology” is from the Greek anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος), “man”, understood to mean humankind or humanity, and -logia (-λογία), “discourse” or “study.”
Anthropology,

dildo

From Bible, Ezekiel seventeen it seems dildoes cause some real whining. “Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them.”
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petroglyphs

If we define writing as a system of marks to record information (and discount petroglyph, say), handwriting has been around for just 6,000 of humanity's some 200,000 years.
Handwriting Is History By Anne Trubek. At http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/handwriting-is-history-6540/

minimalism

the Scheme language is minimalist. (Scheme is a computer language) By the twisted nature of English, the meaning of the word “minimalist” isn't confined to something of a person. It is also a adjective, describing something relating to, or characteristic of minimalism. Thus, the phrase “the Scheme language is minimalist.” is ok. It need not to be verbose as “the Scheme language is designed by minimalists.” or “the Scheme language is designed with a philosophy of minimalism.” Both of the latter convey less, and less precision than the orginal, which in verbose version is: “the Scheme language has characteristics of a design that is minimalism.” Do not be delighted by the technicalities of this paragraph as to indicate that English language is worthy of deep learning. It is not. To know these details other than for the purpose of entertainment is in general a waste of time. Study formal logic, or linguistic instead. The English language, is so much a waste of human resource. One big baggage that seduce and belabor and humbug.
Xah Lee

Mesmerism

Mesmerism came from Mesmer, a physician, who believed that he possess magnetic powers. American Heritage says: Word History: When the members of an audience sit mesmerized by a speaker, their reactions do not take the form of dancing, sleeping, or falling into convulsions. But if Franz Anton Mesmer were addressing the audience, such behavior could be expected. Mesmer, a visionary 18th-century physician, believed cures could be effected by having patients do things such as sit with their feet in a fountain of magnetized water while holding cables attached to magnetized trees. Mesmer then came to believe that magnetic powers resided in himself, and during highly fashionable curative sessions in Paris he caused his patients to have reactions ranging from sleeping or dancing to convulsions. These reactions were actually brought about by hypnotic powers that Mesmer was unaware he possessed. One of his pupils, named Puységur, then used the term mesmerism (first recorded in English in 1802) for Mesmer's practices. The related word mesmerize (first recorded in English in 1829), having shed its reference to the hypnotic doctor, lives on in the sense “to enthrall.”
American Heritage Dictionary.

autodidact

autodidact means someone who learned on his own, as opposed to from a educational institution. This is not to be confused with autocrat or despot. Related terms are polymath, polyglot. Polymath is a person who has expertise in several diverse subject areas. Polyglot means a person who is proficient in several languages. Often, polymath and polyglot are also autodidact. One of my nickname used online is polyglut. It's a wordplay based on polymath and polyglot, with the glut hinting at gluttony.
Xah Lee

-a arpeggio

-a ideologue

-a fundamentalist → in religious contexts, it means people who believed that population are procreated by one man and one woman, and this woman is made up from a rib bone of that man, the value of Pi is 3, and many other holy tales.

literature

living things

Metaphysics Related

eschatology

(Christian) Eschatology
2003. Caption of a essay.
eschatology = the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and judgment; heaven and hell; the end of the world. Eschatology

social/political

philosophy related

studies

English, language

oddball nouns

instruments

science jargons

palpus
epidermis

hemolymph → “blood” of insects.

affidavit, animism, arraign,
gastronomy,
genealogy, geodesy, homeopathy, humanism,
hyperventilate,

hypothermia, ichthyology, multivalent

misology → hatred of reason
misogyny → hatred of women
mysanthropy → hatred of human
pecuniary → relating to money

Vocabulary: Sexual