(1901–1976) German theoretical physicist – one of the pioneers of Quantum mechanics
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: werner heisenberg quotes)

(n.) a food that takes the form of an O made of fried sugar-dough. even though such toruses are theoretically without beginning or end, donuts tend to be gone very quickly.

In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

The act of reminding people of the horrible things they already knew, allowing you slight relief from the guilt of doing nothing about it yourself.

A person austerely censorious of that which he is unable to do or become. In commerce and finance, a member of the Army of Provision.

(adj.) of language; meant to persuade, imply and suggest, for all those times when plainspokenness would be too pussy

(n.) your opponent's argument reconstructed and polished with so much care and rigour that they thank you, even if you end up proving them wrong.

(also: good faith acts)
(also: good faith actors)

(also: rationality)
https://www.lesswrong.com/rationality
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/

(also: strawman)

a computer program that pretends to be a different genre of pornography

(n.) code words used to make one's job sound more difficult than it, in fact, is

To make an enemy.

(n.) a furry, quadrupedal, twitchy-nosed animal that has entered into a contract with humankind, whereby it plays the role of surrogate child, roommate, bungling sidekick and stalwart admirer in exchange for food and shelter.

Mars (aka the Red Planet) is a planet in the solar system colored red by Iron Oxide, and is home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, as well as one of the largest canyons in the solar system, Valles Marineris. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos.

(n.) not quite a friend and not quite an enemy; someone with whom one is in regular and direct competition, but not enough to want them dead.

(n.) a food that is conceptually disgusting but inherently fancy and respectable

(n.) a european who drinks olive oil from the flask and despises spaniards

a flavoring that is nigh omnipresent on food products in the western world between late summer and autumn. presumably there is some deep ritualistic significance behind this custom, though it remains doggedly beyond the understanding of our finest minds

originally used on pumpkins, a variety of pumpkin spiced watermelon

A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.

an excuse for European countries to get (ahem, how to put this nicely..) creative.

well, you'd think just European countries. after all, it's in the name, right? --wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest#Participants
(also: russia)
(also: israel)
(also: australia)
(also: turkey)

(also: pop music)
(also: geopolitics)
(also: block voting)

(btw here, 'my' means 'мы', ergo different pronunciation -- https://forvo.com/word/%D0%BC%D1%8B/)

(also: weirdness abounds)
(also: costume-heavy)
(also: twin-tastic)
(also: high notes)
(also: opera singers)
(also: cultural stereotypes)

and overthinking eurovision in all its glory:
2013: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KDRg_scQSPtB2VoO0cpzg-VeHIsaZFB
2014: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KDRg_scQSNvAwL8Gb6oKx2o68kTBRXR
2015: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KDRg_scQSP_7Bd0rDLjNoLfpG-BuCTj
2016: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KDRg_scQSNq04GQ_agpfBp7sV-V_Gog
2017: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KDRg_scQSNFak9-d88kdTrfACAn7FqJ
2018: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KDRg_scQSOxUEkWwIUp6q02p2IKzOX5

n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere — as well say that a range of mountains is higher than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish.

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)