You guys have made me use my dictionary a lot in the past few days.
New words I have learned: entrainment - the act of drawing along with or after oneself (as in a train) law of parsimony - Occam’s razor. I had heard of Occam’s razor, but didn’t know what it meant. Occam’s razor - a philosophical rule that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex
I enjoy the various discussions on this board, and admire the level of intelligence most people here exhibit.
Xeno’s Paradox: In order to get there, you have to get halfway there. And in order to get halfway there, you have to get a quarter of the way there. In order to get a quarter of the way there, you have to get an eighth of the way there. And so on. You’d think you’d never get there…
Xiphisternum. For no other reason than to start a post with an “x.”
Cool words always tend to have a medical slant…
Uvula: that thing that hangs down at the back of your throat.
Borborgymi: tummy rumblings.
Infundibulum. Don’t know what it means, sounds cool though.
Infundibulum is a word that describes a funnel-shaped body part. Examples would be the stalk that holds the pituitary gland in place; the calyx of a kidney; or the ovarian opening of a fallopian tube. It comes from the Latin word infundere, which means “to pour in”. This from Bartleby.com.
