Word: phenomenons
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...years later, and a week before the third season’s finale, I remain convinced that “So You Think You Can Dance” is misclassified as just another reality television show riding the coattails of the “Idol” phenomenon...
...story of the Koan fakes is one of many in Nayan Chanda's Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. While most of us consider globalization to be a purely contemporary phenomenon - conjuring up images of multinational coffee chains and multilingual call centers - to Chanda it is as old as humanity itself, and as complex and unpredictable. It "has worked silently for millennia without being given a name," writes the author, a former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review now at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. And it moves through "a multitude...
...more than once: you walk into a room or find yourself in a conversation, and suddenly you have the overwhelming sense--even though you know it's impossible--that you've been here before. Psychologists call it dj vu--"already seen," in French--but despite the phenomenon's universal familiarity, no one has offered a convincing explanation for why it happens...
...made up of many different components--long and short term, episodic (that is to say, memories of events) and fact based, and that it takes place in different parts of the brain--McHugh's research, first reported in the online edition of Science, adds another intriguing clue to the phenomenon...
...immigrants have become curators of a nice slice of Americana. In Tulsa, Okla., Jack Patel has lovingly refurbished the neon cactus in front of his Desert Hills Motel, and in Amarillo, Texas, Dipak and Sangita Patel decorated their Route 66 properties with rose gardens. The so-called Patel-motel phenomenon began in the 1970s when immigrants from Gujarat, India--where Patel is a common surname--started applying their business acumen to the U.S. motel market...