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Treadmilling

The act of running on a treadmill.

Seeing the guinea pigs treadmilling in the pet store, Gilbert Banger realized that the one night stands he was already getting tired of, amounted to treadmilling, so he stopped whoremongering and began to search for a woman who he would like to marry.

by but for September 24, 2017

portable, handheld, life-ending mechanism

A long way to call a pistol.

Harry was carrying a portable, handheld, life-ending mechanism in the right pocket of his pants. "Pistol" has six letters, "portable, handheld, life-ending mechanism" has 37 letters, one hyphen, and three spaces.

by but for April 23, 2021

lemon cure

The close to infallible method which cures colds by drinking fresh lemon juice (from 5 to 10 lemons) with a straw.

In a book called "Las Plantas Curan," published in the 1960s in Brazil, which listed the most popular herbs and the illnesses they cure, I read about the 'lemon cure.' Whenever I catch a cold, via a straw I drink the juice from 5 to 10 lemons and they cure me every time. However, one time I did have to go to the doctor and she gave me some antibiotics because I had a fever, in the summer—imagine!

by but for December 24, 2017

time-money

The term emphasizes the fact that money and time are often interchangeable because most individuals earn a per/hour salary. Because unavoidably it must be used recuperating and preparing for work eating, sleeping, on the toilet, showering dressing, shopping, visiting a doctor or dentist, resting, playing, time not used earning a salary is also "time-money".

Concise, logical, effective communication saves time-money, boosts productivity and happiness. Illogical, inconcise, wordy/redundant thus ineffective communication produces confusion, frustration, powerlessness, anger and unhappiness, and drains time-money. Depending on who the individual worker is, in a year the seconds lost as a consequence of inconcise, illogical, ineffective communication ad up to hours, days, weeks, or months. Multiplying that lost time by millions of workers in a nation adds up to years, and those years translate to lost profits and lower the GPA. Do corporations prefer to dumb (down) the masses to sell more products and more junk than to direct schools to teach students to communicate correctly? Look around.

by but for June 15, 2018

Mobile Computer

What mobile devices are.

Carlos is researching and writing as much in his handheld mobile computer than on his iMac.

by but for July 29, 2021

Love Science

Love Science studies the over 200-types of love, and the many ways individuals can love and be loved.

Individuals who practice love science are called love scientists and they have discovered that the brain processes love neurochemically and neuroelectrically and changes the body's biochemistry in ways that improve the biological, emotional, and mental states of both humans and animals.

I feel love for an individual who I calculate can help me or provide me with something I need. When a person "falls" in love, they lose a degree of self-control and feel a strong need to give different things to their love object, thereby making love mutual and allowing the two or more participants to grow as a result of their loving interactions. Lastly, love cannot be purchased or given a price. I think it is a one-of-a-kind supernatural phenomenon.

by but for May 2, 2018

mediaopoly

The word "mediaopoly" merges the words "media" and "monopoly." Ben H. Bakdikian published his book called "The Media Monopoly" in 1983 . The "mediapoly" is comprised of a handful of corporations which buy independent media outlets, merges them into one conglomerate, dictates what is news, only hires journalists who do not question the system and suppresses independent or alternative ideas and points of view (Fabara, 2017). Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg gave Bagdikian portions of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret classified history of the Vietnam War, and he gave a copy of the documents to Senator Mike Gravel, who promptly read them into the Congressional Record (1971). In 1976, Bagdikian became dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

The "mediapoly" buys independent media outlets, merges them into a conglomerate, dictates what is news, manipulates, distorts, and ultimately controls reality, and only hires journalists who do not question and glorify the status-quo; thus covertly suppressing and censoring alternative ideas and points of view, and contradicting the freedom of speech the First Amendment grants America's taxpayers (Fabara, 2017). The mediaopoly is comprised of 7 media giants: Comcast, Walt Disney, Twenty-First Century Fox, Time Warner, Direct TV, CBS, Viacom (the last two separated in 2006).

by but for January 12, 2017