May 2013
1 post
Spivak pronoun, cosmic latte, skycot, Michigan left, cauliflory, decahose.
April 2013
3 posts
collisional cascading, opalized wood, ferae naturae, ocellated icefish, zooids, frijoles y fusiles.
unseen species problem, redshirting, Atomic Gardens, wall dogs, multi-angle snowflake camera, cliodynamics.
frolic and detour, bax’abola, babaji ka ghanta, Chain Home, shadow diversity, zequals.
March 2013
5 posts
impedance plethysmography, Volvox, fencing response, endling, blue-bellied night wanderer, djent.
estrus chirp, Poka-yoke, Mal de Débarquement Syndrome, blind-nailing, replication fork collapse, dumpling dust.
frazil ice, lockstar, pessimistic meta-induction, banana equivalent dose, windfarm sickness, Munsell color system.
electric horsehair, elite controllers, Kalashnikov Index, feuilleton, Feather Atlas, time unit box system.
starfish sites, 22-22-22, beef rainbows, dittography, The Law of the Tongue, undulatus asperatus.
February 2013
9 posts
Eulerian video magnification,Space Fence, fiero, frosted comma lichen, kärringkånk, Double Dependent Locality Name.
Borg Complex, Kardashev scale, chicken-in-a-sock, Ostwald ripening, tetrachromat, Rothko toast.
galanthophile, Ladybower bellmouth, xenochrony, Roko’s Basilisk, catoptromancy, evaporating exoplanet.
melissopalynology, reverse electrovibration, succulent lamb journalism, vinegar valentines, Butterfly Theorem, Solmonath.
bounding asterisks, bastard hogberry, God shot, resource defence polygyny, truce term, end-bulbs of Krause.
wing-assisted incline running, Volksnoodle, hyperostotic polyarthropathy, Böögg, smit marks, pibloktoq.
falcon codes, Schreibechor, caustic engineering, Thursbitch, vanilla ceiling, seismic metamaterial.
pozzolanic reaction, zeppelin knot, fluff pulp, superomniphobic, balloon bombs, seigniorage.
asterism, semantic satiation, medical self-defense, Receiver of Wreck, salon sink radiculopathy, Venezuelan poodle moth.
January 2013
9 posts
chord tunnels, Soleau envelope, tykehound, cute aggression, Pittsburgh rare, cat gap.
flat-chested kitten syndrome, Terra nullius, leporello, giant negative linear compressibility, disco scallop, miswak.
darkbulb, cosmic domain walls, proxemics, Turing tarpit, appulse, terms of venery.
personality strike, bleeding tooth fungus, spermcasting, Elfstedentocht, Haleakalā silversword, acoustic levitation.
shiritori, Fisher-Price synaesthesia, Jantelagen, infidelity phone, powder-actuated tools, snow-broth.
zooveillance, non-paternity event, refleshing, cephalophore, sakura ishi, Kensington System.
Xoloitzcuintlis, grey ceiling, agnotologic capitalism, tyre swan, Die Wurstkatastrophe, stereotactic ablation.
Siteswap, The Bicholim Conflict, rubber hose cryptanalysis, Systema Perimetr, tsunami bomb, zhaláad.
Anscombe’s quartet, swazzle, nanopore sequencing, allometric scaling, bean hole beans, pernicious number.
December 2012
6 posts
double-bladed bistoury caché, zeerust, rivet fan, jody calls, crystallofolia, goofus glass.
swamp pop, skullet, Post-Panamax, skinship, wingsailed multihulls, hammerspace.
badger game, chaotropic agent, mpreg, farpotshket, aszú dough, deuteragonist.
LULU, meteotsunami, velvet ants, scorpion bomb, grammaticaster, serpentinization.
Guilloché patterns, delayed sleep phase disorder, Oh-My-God particle, sea silk, Sloan Great Wall, Sworn Virgins.
torsades de pointes, coordinatograph, alien arithmetic holomorphic structures, wildpoepen, skinny pants syndrome.
November 2012
8 posts
porcupettes, comfort noise, balloonicle, the Californian Ideology, kunoichi, PBR&B.
just-in-time spraying, ugly laws, hikikomori, management by perkele, wikigroaning, laughing death.
cool flames, gliding ghosts, gnotobiotes, void for vagueness, zananas, flickering ecosystems.
surmontrance, Zenker organ, Utah teapot, war gin, Fingerspitzengefühl, Alkahest.
syssitia, integumentary sensory organs, contract cheating, Scavenger’s Daughter, door-in-the-face technique, brontobyte.
ikiaqqivik, paleotempestology, pixeliose, lustre mutants, hatch coaming, Fremdschämen.
paleography, soul-cakes, Shy Tory Factor, skunk puppying, dit-clunk, blazars.
diesel therapy, Googlegänger, numerus clausus, microchimerism, parade of horribles, mampires.
October 2012
6 posts
isopreference lines, urine wheel, pigg-o-stat, interplanetary transport network, frogamander, Watsonizing.
academic fencing, lie box, glitter path, metapixel, remote reignition, ethnoburb.
helium flash, cento, Geneva drive, squircle, oxt weekend, taphonomic scenario.
zip bomb, Rummy couples, ancestral haematotherm, paternoster lift, Kermode bear, wobbly hedgehog syndrome.
Daily Idioms in the Boston Globe's Ideas blog →
Thanks to Josh for inviting me to talk about Daily Idioms for Brainiac, the blog of the Boston Globe’s Ideas section.
Also, thanks to everyone who responded with feedback about the project. And, as ever, thanks for reading.
skin name, transient electronics, pharyngeal jaw, gota fría, apophallation, shearing layers.
September 2012
10 posts
howdah pistol, lithopanspermia, sonic maturation, heart tap, chaos terrain, self-flaying skin.
Please share your thoughts
The Daily Idioms project is coming up on its one-year anniversary. I’ve been thinking a bit about why I’m doing it and what it means. Because of the nature of the project, I don’t know much about its readers, and I’d like to.
If you have a few minutes, I’d appreciate it if you’d drop me a line with your thoughts: who you are, why you read Daily Idioms, and what...
Batman angle, visual odometry, humster test, anthrophony, ghost surgery, holon.
