Third, all the clusters identified by the algorithm accord very strongly with the background knowledge of the expert who designed the survey and identified which variables were, e.g., “coping” variables, and which were, e.g. “depression” variables. The sole exception is that COP6 reliably clusters with depression variables, rather than with other coping variables. According to [7], COP6 is the respondent’s reported degree of agreement with the following statement: “I feel that stressful situations are God (high power)’s way of punishing me for my sins or lack of spirituality”. We leave it to the reader to decide whether it is plausible that this item could cluster with depression indicators, rather than coping indicators.

“Metasecond” or “ms” is assumed to be a metasecond, measuring Metatime.

But he need not have been afraid! The great suction-process of cosmogonic matter – always waiting to drain up in its huge, blind, clay belly, these rapturous overtones of its foster-children – was soon at work, sucking up the spilt drops of his happiness.

To reveal the root causes of these tensions and animosities, Patai and Koertge present an incisive analysis of the self-defeating ideological games feminists play in colleges and universities, among them IDPOL (identity politics), WORDMAGIC, TOTAL REJ, and BIODENIAL, an extreme form of social constructionism.

It turns out that what is sexy and what is cute are machines and software, but not all machines and software can be called sexy or cute.

Puns are the only form of word play I have ever heard among high energy physicists.  What is it about puns they find so satisfying and why are other kinds of word play so unrecognizable to them?  When I am doing fieldwork, physicists occasionally ask why I have no sense of humor:  they notice that my laughter at their puns is feigned. It is always a relief to return to anthropology territory and another kind of word play where I am reputed to have at least the normal amount of wit.  Reader, remember that puns bring together meanings which should be kept apart, a kind of verbal incest.  These acronymic couplings physicists make are clever only to those who think that speech and writing, like bodies and minds, ought to be kept apart, that appearances are false and hidden meanings are true.  These puns directly contradict what all science and engineering students know should be kept apart.

The [incr tsdb()] environment is a tool for grammar and system profiling and treebanking. Some people find its name hard to pronounce, especially novice users.

Measuring the size of the science was, from early on, a problematical task when this sort of mathematical Science of Science came into being in the 1920s and 1930s.

Apolitical, tropical explorer; hard-coded and ubiquitous; immortal. Extremely dangerous.

There are long stretches (like a couple hundred pages about a child choking on a cough drop which devolves into a mind-and-time-bending journey through history, the future, extra dimensions, the spirit realm and, mostly, Moore’s remarkable imagination) that play out like pure, mainline literary fireworks.