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youth transmission

The way interacting with younger people—more so children—automatically and almost always unknowingly transmit their youth to older people.
Though I taught high school and college, I love teaching second graders so much because they are tender and interacting with them makes me feel so hopeful. I call interacting with younger people—specially children—youth transmission.
by but for December 24, 2017
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Mutual Repulsion

The way two or more people feel when they see or meet one another for the first time and feel repulsed by the way the other person looks, thinks (based on what they say and how they say it), acts, smells, sits, stands, walks, or runs.
From the day they met, Karen and Jose felt a mutual repulsion.
by but for October 21, 2017
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WritingAllCapsNoSpaces

A way to save time/space/energy writing and reading information that is being used more often as the pace of life accelerates.
Minutes ago, the educator sent himself an email titled "PreferredSolution=StudentsWorkingInGroupsGiving&ReceivingFeedback." The technique is called WritingAllCapsNoSpaces, and is © Carlos Manuel Fabara Arias 2017.
by but for October 26, 2017
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reality imposition

Telling others what is and what is not, what is good and what is bad, who is good and who is bad, what foods to eat or not eat, what things to do, or not do. A key function of religions, governments, media, schools, and corporations—the five institutions which pilot society and its members like drones.
The prosecuting attorney told the members of the jury in Federal Truth Court, "In collusion, society's five most powerful institutions make countless false statements which flip most things around to their advantage and allow them to pilot society and its members as if they were drones (2016). That constitutes"reality imposition."
by but for May 6, 2018
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three-dimensionalize

The act of making a shape or anythingsuch as an idea—three-dimensional.
Chuck realized that a tube or cylinder was merely a three-dimensionalized circle.

The sculptor, then the animator, three-dimensionalized a drawing.
by but for May 29, 2018
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Powerless Attire

Headwear, clothing, and footwear designed, produced, marketed and sold primarily in retail store chains which are intended to make the wearer appear less powerful and preferably powerless.
The "flat cap" exemplifies "powerless attire," a garment which makes the wearer look powerless. Though or perhaps because flat caps have been worn for centuries, so very few individuals realize how it really affects the appearance of the individual who wears one, the way others treat him, his identity and his self-concept. The history of the flat cap is very telling. It began to be worn in Northern England after a 1571 Act of Parliament decreed that on Sundays and holidays, all males over 6 years of age, except for the nobility and "persons of degree", were to wear woollen caps on pain of a fine of three farthings (3/4 penny) per day. The flat cap became firmly entrenched as a recognized mark of a non-noble subject, such as a burgher, tradesman, or apprentice. Police or military officer's caps have the elevation in the front and makes those who wear them look authoritative and powerful.
by but for October 11, 2017
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invisibleize

The extraterrestrial had the power to invisibleize by at will sending a person, place, or thing into a different dimension.
by but for November 1, 2017
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