Word: phenomenons
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...first glance, the term sounds like a progressive, coquettish take on the older-woman-beds-younger-man phenomenon. Its representation of females as both claiming and controlling their own sexuality explains why women have rushed to appropriate the epithet as empowering. Inverting the tradition of the sexless spinster, the moniker acknowledges that childbirth does not exorcise a woman’s libido and affirms the sex drive of the perimenopausal...
...Googling oneself has become the digital age's premiere guilty pleasure - an activity enjoyed by all and admitted by few. The phenomenon has even been the subject of scholarly research. Last year, a team of Swiss and Australian social scientists published a study concluding that the practice of self-Googling (or "ego-surfing," as it's sometimes called) can partly be traced to a rise in narcissism in society, but that it is also an attempt by people to identify and shape their personal online "brand." The authors of the survey no doubt returned to their cubicles and Googled themselves...
...Steroids are a fairly new phenomenon in the drug abuse scene,” he said. “Science is only now beginning to answer many questions about the effects, especially the long-term effects...
...Origins of Life Initiative will bring together research in exoplanets and other areas of physical science with research in the life sciences, according to Sasselov. Students interested in this topic have the option of learning more from courses such as Science A-54: Life as a Planetary Phenomenon and the recently approved course Astronomy 110: Exoplanets...
...before she came on stage, what she was capable of, and how she might perform, is entirely unbelievable.The same goes for the contestant who is widely predicted to be her fiercest competition, 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi. If the concatenation of events that led to The Susan Boyle Phenomenon seemed slightly improbable, Jafargholi’s story approaches science fiction. Seconds into the young boy’s spot-on performance of Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie,” the audience having risen to their feet to clap along, judge Cowell calls for the music...