Word: esotericism
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The show's three rounds require that competitors answer esoteric questions under bizzare categories. A contestant is eliminated with each round, until one person is left to compete against Stein in a best-of-10 questions format.
Spread betting first hove into view in the mid-1970s, when a British sports bookmaker--betting is legal in Britain--devised an esoteric, high-risk means of gambling on the future of market indices. Instead of betting the fixed odds of a victory, a fan can bet the point spread...
Headed by Lincoln, Mass., natives John Linnell and John Flansburgh and supported by Dan Hickey on drums, Dan Miller on lead guitar and Danny Weinkauf on bass, TMBG have gained near-cult popularity in many college circles. With songs ranging from "Birdhouse In Your Soul" to "I Should Be Allowed...
Reductionism encouraged the fragmentation of knowledge under the rubric "Learn more and more about less and less." And as the drive to subdivide the natural world into smaller and smaller bits brought the development of the kind of tools needed for this enterprise (microscopes, telescopes, thermometers, dividing engines and all...
To a large extent this is still so today. For any invention to succeed in the marketplace, it has to be some kind of surprise. Most of all for the competitor. And then for the consumer. As a result, invention (with Descartes's help) has given us a world nobody...