Tumblr (3.0; @dailyidioms)http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/yourtown/boston/allston_brighton/Gallery/allston_christmas/" title="moving day in a college town">Allston Christmas</a>, <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-supertasks/" title="Zeno's Paradox and beyond">supertask</a>, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/what-capuling-everyday-im-capuling-turkish-protest-video-goes-viral-1291541" title="every day I'm hooliganing">çapuling</a>, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/media/landays.html" title="Afghani folk couplets">landays</a>, <a href="http://cjchivers.com/post/52316043212/department-of-unusual-ordnance-finds-the-answer" title="IDing ordnance in Syria">increment charges</a>, <a href="http://campus.albion.edu/english/2012/11/06/the-inkhorn-controversy/" title="the first debate on language use in English">Inkhorn Controversy</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/52384225165http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/52384225165Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:41:32 -0400<p><a href="http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/robert-lane-greene/adjectives-nouns" title="verbing nouns and nouning verbs">anthimeria</a>, <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/british-countryside-generator.html" title="designing the landscape">terrain splatmap</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyx_of_Held" title="+3 bonus on auditory localization">Calyx of Held</a>, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/crystal-meth-origins-link-back-to-nazi-germany-and-world-war-ii-a-901755.html" title="the origin of crystal meth in Nazi Germany"><em>Panzerschokolade</em></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_welding" title="flames are weird under high pressure">hyperbaric welding</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_weasel" title="most adorable Mustelidae">least weasel</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/52222308427http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/52222308427Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:55:56 -0400<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodand" title="what you do with banes, and deodands">noxal surrender</a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12186.html" title="finally observed, 40 years after it was predicted!">Hofstadter butterfly</a>, <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/03/eef-beat-manifesto.html" title="I keep reading the headline as 'eef beef manifesto'">eefing</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_Tit-Tyrant" title='"reminiscent of the true tits" '>agile tit-tyrant</a>, <a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/a-quiet-scene-from-the-matrix-demonstrates-how-to,97921/" title="one and a bit actors in a scene">dirty single</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22639040" title="rapid neuronal growth erases memories">infantile amnesia</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/51563613919http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/51563613919Tue, 28 May 2013 11:31:33 -0400<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun" title="still waiting for non-gendered pronouns">Spivak pronoun</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte" title="the average colour of the universe">cosmic latte</a>, <a href="http://www.bahighlife.com/News-And-Blogs/To-Fly-To-Serve-Blog/Time-travel-BOACs-skycot-for-infants-1953.html" title="babies may have shifted during travel">skycot</a>, <a href="http://www.michiganhighways.org/indepth/michigan_left.html" title="making left turns on divided highways">Michigan left</a>, <a href="http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plmay99.htm" title="I love these flowers, and this word.">cauliflory</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/10046248/Month-in-the-life-of-Twitter-survey-shows-networks-distribution-of-languages.html" title="Twitter, it's a *deci*hose, dammit.">decahose</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/51228103046http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/51228103046Fri, 24 May 2013 11:16:00 -0400<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome" title="space debris begets space debris">collisional cascading</a>, <a href="http://theremina.tumblr.com/post/47928965802/opalized-wood-petrified-wood-is-basically" title="it's absolutely gorgeous">opalized wood</a>, <a href="http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/W/WildAnimal.aspx" title="my cat Leroy is legally a wild animal, it seems"><em>ferae naturae</em></a>, <a href="http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/07/17643029-experts-puzzled-by-antarctic-fish-with-crystal-clear-blood-and-no-scales?lite" title="with 'gin-clear blood'">ocellated icefish</a>, <a href="http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/04/aaron-ansarov-man-of-wars" title="component organisms of gorgeous men-o-war">zooids</a>, <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_de_S%C3%A1nchez_massacre" title="If you're with us, we'll feed you; if not, we'll kill you.">frijoles y fusiles</a>.</em></p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/48206437504http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/48206437504Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:41:00 -0400<p><a href="http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2013/02/belly-button-biodiversity-part-one.html" title="and belly button biodiversity">unseen species problem</a>, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57390128/redshirting-holding-kids-back-from-kindergarten/" title="holding kids back so they get ahead">redshirting</a>, <a href="http://gardenhistorygirl.blogspot.ca/2010/12/atomic-gardens.html" title="mmm, tomacco">Atomic Gardens</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_sign" title="I love ghost signs so much">wall dogs</a>, <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/multi-angle-snowflake-camera/27014/" title="captured mid-fall">multi-angle snowflake camera</a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/human-cycles-history-as-science-1.11078" title="interested but skeptical">cliodynamics</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/47785367852http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/47785367852Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:37:10 -0400<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frolic_and_detour" title="name of my new band, tumblr, etc.">frolic and detour</a>, <a href="http://www.theworld.org/2013/03/baxabola-maya-baseball-takes-off-in-the-us/" title="baseball among the Maya">bax&#8217;abola</a>, <a href="http://www.timeoutdelhi.net/dilli-gate/features/learn-lingo-part-1" title="Delhi slang">babaji ka ghanta</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Home" title="proximate early warning">Chain Home</a>, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130403-sharks-animals-weapons-science-extinct-species/" title="extinct before we knew they were there">shadow diversity</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2013/apr/04/zequals-symbol-sums-mathematics" title="agree with argument, don't need a new symbol">zequals</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/47464024710http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/47464024710Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:40:38 -0400<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_phlebography" title="measuring venous obstructions">impedance plethysmography</a>, <a href="http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec03/volvox.html" title="spherical algae colonies"><em>Volvox</em></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_response" title="head trauma--en garde! ">fencing response</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endling" title="my nominee for saddest word in the language">endling</a>, <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2013/march/blue-bellied-fish-is-a-surprise-catch119960.html" title="tiny beautiful newly-found fish">blue-bellied night wanderer</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djent" title="onomatopoeic music genre">djent</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/46601515634http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/46601515634Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:34:01 -0400<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDk1dI5891E" title='"Bitch Talk"'>estrus chirp</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke" title="designing for error">Poka-yoke</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21786689" title="permanent seasickness">Mal de Débarquement Syndrome</a>, <a href="http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/10212" title="I have a weakness for woodworking tools">blind-nailing</a>, <a href="http://mcb.asm.org/content/early/2012/10/03/MCB.01060-12" title="understanding how cells accumulate error">replication fork collapse</a>, <a href="http://user.xmission.com/~drudy/amm/gloss.html" title="amazing mountain men vocab">dumpling dust</a>. </p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/46257002097http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/46257002097Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:14:31 -0400<p><a href="http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/03/huge-ice-spheres-along-sleeping-bear-dunes-national-lakeshore.html" title="slushy ice + wind = iceballs">frazil ice</a>, <a href="http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/VOYAGER/kernels/ck/vgr1_super.cmt" title="I need one of these too">lockstar</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimistic_induction" title="rebutting epistemic optimism">pessimistic meta-induction</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose" title="understanding radiation exposure">banana equivalent dose</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/15/windfarm-sickness-spread-word-australia" title="mouth-to-brain transmission">windfarm sickness</a>,<a href="http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/03/16/munsell-man-who-colored-america/KlfxVj45OxbaTlHZ8wmNeO/story.html" title='"the man who colored America"'> Munsell color system</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/45991007313http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/45991007313Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:20:29 -0400<p><a href="http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/srs/Srs08.pdf" title="still loving @vruba's lichen listings">electric horsehair</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nonprogressor" title="nonprogressing HIV">elite controllers</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/02/cycle-fear-assault-weapon-sales" title='"a futures market for violence"'>Kalashnikov Index</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton" title="talk of the town">feuilleton</a>, <a href="http://www.lab.fws.gov/fa/index.php" title="what it says on the tin">Feather Atlas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_unit_box_system" title="annotating music">time unit box system</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/45913805243http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/45913805243Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:36:55 -0400<p><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_site" title="nighttime decoys during the blitz">starfish sites</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/fashion/for-20-somethings-ambition-at-a-cost.html" title="how to fuck over the next generation">22-22-22</a>, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/what-causes-beef-rainbows/273534/" title="iridescence in nature should be treasured!">beef rainbows</a>, <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course/course/scbl-err.htm" title="one of the common errors made by scribes">dittography</a>, <a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2013/02/the-law-of-the-tongue/" title="human whalers collaborating with orcas">The Law of the Tongue</a>, <a href="http://io9.com/5987351/these-ominous-cloud-formations-could-be-of-a-completely-new-type" title="cloud porn">undulatus asperatus</a>.</span></p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/44546903145http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/44546903145Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:51:50 -0500<p><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/scientists-uncover-invisible-motion-in-video/" title="make sure you watch the video">Eulerian video magnification</a>,<a href="http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/space-fence.html" title="What could go wrong? I feel safer already.">Space Fence</a>, <a href="http://www.whatgamesare.com/fiero.html" title="triumph over adversity (at least in games)">fiero</a>, <a href="http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/srs/Srs08.pdf" title="@vruba is tweeting names like these daily">frosted comma lichen</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_carrying" title="and the prize is the wife's weight in beer...">kärringkånk</a>, <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/#uk" title="I love that there are postal otaku.">Double Dependent Locality Name</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/44231203818http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/44231203818Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:07:45 -0500<p><a href="http://thefrailestthing.com/2013/02/19/cataloging-the-borg-complex/" title="check out the tumblr too">Borg Comple</a>x, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale" title="taxonomy of civilizations">Kardashev scale</a>, <a href="http://earthjustice.org/blog/2012-september/monday-reads-the-pacific-fisher-socks-edition" title="I love this so much">chicken-in-a-sock</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostwald_ripening" title="which explains the ouzo effect">Ostwald ripening</a>, <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-super-human-vision#.UStrYx1kyiC" title="the women with superhuman vision">tetrachromat</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151285551001817&amp;set=a.10151285549486817.454633.24939891816&amp;type=3&amp;theater" title="nom">Rothko toast</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43988591345http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43988591345Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:33:33 -0500<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16789834" title="people are really serious about snowdrops">galanthophile</a>, <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/edge-over-which-it-is-impossible-to.html" title='"an edge over which it is impossible to look"'>Ladybower bellmouth</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenochrony" title="early sampling">xenochrony</a>, <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk" title="the sociology around this may be more interesting than the actual idea">Roko&#8217;s Basilisk</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoptromancy" title="Mirror, mirror, on the wall...">catoptromancy</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23179-astrophile-evaporating-planet-shows-how-worlds-vanish.html" title="burning away a planet">evaporating exoplanet</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43736754716http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43736754716Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:56:36 -0500<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissopalynology" title="how to detect honey laundering">melissopalynology</a>, <a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/haptics/?cid=co5813354&amp;pid=2130" title="haptic interfaces">reverse electrovibration</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succulent_lamb" title="a sadly useful term">succulent lamb journalism</a>, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/13/vinegar_valentines_an_old_tradition_of_sending_mean_cards_anonymously.html" title="trolls before the Internet">vinegar valentines</a>, <a href="http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/Butterfly.shtml" title="geometers' playtime">Butterfly Theorem</a>, <a href="http://hotword.dictionary.com/february/#QcIK56h6dDZGM5BU.99" title="&quot;mud-month&quot;--that's about right">Solmonath</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43565687887http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43565687887Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:31:54 -0500<p><a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4466" title="date back to Peanuts comics *sighs wistfully*">bounding asterisks</a>, <a href="http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/bioinspired-fibers-change-color-when-stretched" title="bioinspired fibres change colour when stretched">bastard hogberry</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/10/opinion/sunday/ben-schott-java-jive-coffee-vocabulary.html" title="the secret language of baristas">God shot</a>, <a href="http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/3/639.full.pdf" title="rethinking forced copulation in scorpionflies">resource defence polygyny</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_term" title="UK friend: 'scribs and crosses!' Me: 'what?'">truce term</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krause%27s_end-bulbs" title="thermoreceptors">end-bulbs of Krause</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43004840751http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/43004840751Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:39:42 -0500<p><a href="http://astronomy-to-zoology.tumblr.com/post/41317003630/why-fly-part-2-the-ground-up-hypothesis-now" title="why did wings evolve?">wing-assisted incline running</a>, <a href="http://www.themorningnews.org/post/pad-thai" title="the secret history of pad Thai">Volksnoodle</a>, <a href="http://mydaybook.wdfiles.com/local--files/bio20-1a/Rabbits.pdf" title="what happens when rabbits only eat carrots">hyperostotic polyarthropathy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sechsel%C3%A4uten" title="the original Burning (Snow)Man"><em>Böögg</em></a>, <a href="http://www.cumbriahillfarming.org.uk/hillfarming/sheepmarks.html" title="IDing sheep in the commons">smit marks</a><span>,</span><span> </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2013/feb/08/weatherwatch-arctic-hysteria-inuit" title="expected to be widespread in the Northeast this winter"><em>pibloktoq</em></a><span>.</span></p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/42848524899http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/42848524899Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:43:18 -0500<p><a href="http://www.combat.ws/S4/SAILOR/APNDX3.HTM" title="Falcon one-one-oh, over.">falcon codes</a>, <em><a href="http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3226475/blair%202004.pdf?sequence=2" title='"writing chorus" -- see bottom of p. 92'>Schreibechor</a></em>, <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/caustic-engineering.html" title="images from the surfaces of glass">caustic engineering</a>, <a href="http://alangarner.atspace.org/votd.html" title="deep dark English places">Thursbitch</a>, <a href="http://observer.com/2006/01/vanilla-ceiling-magazines-still-shades-of-white-2/" title="not as yummy as it sounds">vanilla ceiling</a>, <a href="http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/france-has-constructed-earthquake.html" title="earthquake invisibility cloak">seismic metamaterial</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/42511824419http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/42511824419Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:24:53 -0500<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozzolanic_reaction" title="the chemistry of Roman concrete">pozzolanic reaction</a>, <a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/modern-homesteading/zeppelin-knot-zmaz80jfzraw.aspx#axzz2JfyfCkyL" title="for mooring your airship">zeppelin knot</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluff_pulp" title="sadly, not a genre of novels featuring bunnies">fluff pulp</a>, <a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/superomniphobicexpialidocious/" title="the URL makes me laugh">superomniphobic</a>, <a href="http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/forensic_geology/japenese%20vengenance%20bombs%20new.htm" title="how geologists unraveled a WWII mystery">balloon bombs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage" title="currently -0.6 cents for the Canadian penny">seigniorage</a>.</p>http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/42357896419http://dailyidioms.tumblr.com/post/42357896419Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:15:30 -0500