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• Telepathy
  Telepathy is a common theme in fiction and science fiction, with many [[superhero]]es and [[supervillain]]s having telepathic ==Telepathy in popular culture==
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• Internship
  ...mon in [[professional]] fields including [[medicine]], [[architecture]], [[science]], engineering, [[law]], business (especially accounting and finance), tech ...bor laws, European internships are mostly unpaid], although they are still popular among non-Europeans in order to gain international [[exposure]] on one's [[
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• Auctoritas
  A popular translation is 'the ability to make people do what you want, just by being [[Category: Political Science]]
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• Afterlife
  ...n the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics. In many popular views, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual or immater ==Afterlife in modern science==
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• The Sciences
  ...re is sometimes termed [[pure science]] to differentiate it from [[applied science]], which is the application of scientific research to specific human needs. Fields of science are commonly classified along two major lines:
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• Folk
  ...rence to the branch of modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music popular music] (associated with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village Gr [[Category: Political Science]]
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• Pataphysics
  ...[metaphysics]]. It is a [[parody]] of the [[theory]] and methods of modern science and is often expressed in [[nonsense|nonsensical]] [[language]]. A practiti ...of ''L'Écho de Paris littéraire illustré''. Jarry later defined it as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of obj
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• Mind maps
  ...the brain will scan the entire page in a non-linear fashion. He also uses popular assumptions about the [[cerebral hemispheres]] in order to promote the excl ...such claims may actually be [[marketing]] [[hype]] based on [[Human brain#Popular misconceptions|misconception]]s about the [[brain]] and the [[cerebral hemi
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• Biorhythms
  ...a series of books by Bernard Gittelson, including ''Biorhythm — A Personal Science, Biorhythm Charts of the Famous and Infamous'', and ''Biorhythm Sports Fore Charting biorhythms for personal use was popular in the [[United States]] during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970's 1
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• Skepticism
  ...a pragmatic compromise between philosophical skepticism and [[nomothetic]] science; philosophical skepticism is in turn sometimes referred to as "radical empi ...[[reality]] is conducted. Considering the rigor of the scientific method, science itself may simply be thought of as an organized form of skepticism. This do
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• Death of God
  ...phy|philosopher]] [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]. It first appears in ''[[The Gay Science]]'' (''Die fröhliche Wissenschaft''), section 108 (New Struggles), in sect ...lves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?''|Nietzsche, ''The Gay Science'', Section 125| tr. [[Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)|Walter Kaufmann]]
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• Kaleidoscope
  ...s quickly copied as a toy. Brewster believed he would make money from his popular invention; however, a fault in the wording of his patent allowed others to
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• Science
  ...here is sometimes termed 'pure science' to differentiate it from [[applied science]], which is the application of scientific research to specific human needs. Fields of science are commonly classified along two major lines:
  30 KB (4,320 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
• Eternal
  While in the popular mind, '''eternity''' often simply means existing for an [[infinite]], i.e., == Science and eternity ==
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• Fundamentalism
  ...have repeatedly placed them in conflict with mainstream trends in American popular culture—not only in [[religion]], but in the realms of [[education]], [[p ...not be taken literally because it conflicted with the findings of modern [[science]]. Conservatives, on the other hand, rejected modernist revisions of the [[
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• 2010-10-14-A Degree of Faith
  In Science research is carried out by experimentation and the testing of theories in a ...ity of TV programmes, movies, computer games, alcohol, recreational drugs, popular music and much more besides. In fact there are very little avenues left ope
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• Fourth Dimension
  ==The "fourth dimension" in popular culture== *The fourth dimension has been a subject of popular fascination since at least the 1920s. See ''Into the Fourth Dimension'' (19
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• Precognition
  ...lies that the [[phenomena]] go against [[established]] [[principles]] of [[science]]. Specifically, precognition would violate the principle that an [[effect] ...al]] for this work was collected by advertisements in various well-known [[popular]] [[media]].
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• Indigo Children
  The concept was initially developed in the 1970s, gaining popular interest with the publication of a series of books in the late 1990s and th ...a complete lack of [[science]] or studies to support it.[2][6] The lack of science is acknowledged by some believers, including Doreen Virtue, author of ''The
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• Science fiction
  ...[[purpose]] of science fiction, making it a "literature of [[ideas]]".[1] Science fiction is largely based on writing entertainingly and [[rationa]]lly about ...th our definitions, Shakespeare's play The Tempest would have to be termed science fiction.[8]
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