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A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
I use this word deliberately because of Krzysztof Penderecki's mind breaking piece 'Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'. Hearing that back in the late 90s was definitely a gateway further into the realms of nightmarish music beyond various extremes of metal, drone doom and weird electronica.
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A flagon is a large leather, metal, glass, plastic or ceramic vessel, used for drink, whether this be water, ale, or another liquid. A flagon is typically of about 2 imperial pints (1.1 litre) in volume, and it has either a handle (when strictly it is a jug), or (more usually) one or two rings at the neck. Sometimes the neck has a large flange at the top rather than rings.
Flange.
99 Bottles of Beer is an anonymous sea shanty dating to the mid-20th century. It is a traditional reverse counting song in both the United States and Canada. It is popular to sing on road trips, as it has a very repetitive format which is easy to memorize and can take a long time when families sing.
The American comedian Andy Kaufman exploited this fact in the routine early in his career when he would actually sing all 100 verses.
Having not long since rewatched for the 5th time 'Man On The Moon', this was particularly relevant and fitting.
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"Sabre Dance" is a movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane (1942), where the dancers display their skill with sabres. It is Khachaturian's best known and most recognizable work. He apparently felt that its popularity "deflected attention from his other works.
Its middle section is based on an unnamed Armenian folk song. According to Tigran Mansurian, it is a synthesis of an Armenian wedding dance tune from Gyumri tied in a saxophone counterpoint "that seems to come straight from America."
The scientific name for the saber-toothed tiger is Smilodon.
I didn't actually know this before and it makes me smile!
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Permutating: change the order or arrangement of.
Parameter: a limit or boundary which defines the scope of a particular process or activity.
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Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. The term was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".
Apophenia can be considered a commonplace effect of brain function. Taken to an extreme, however, it can be a symptom of psychiatric dysfunction, for example, as a symptom in paranoid schizophrenia, where a patient sees hostile patterns (for example, a conspiracy to persecute them) in ordinary actions.
Apophenia is also typical of conspiracy theory, where coincidences may be woven together into an apparent plot.
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We know of the theories that the brain can't dream about a face you haven't seen. Of course this is completely impossible to test and prove one way or another, since most of the faces you see are of people you will never properly meet, talk to, spend more than one second looking at, so how do you compare that with the extremely vague and blurry notes of a dream and its confusion.
Even still, this nugget of knowledge has fascinated and stayed with me for a long time, and I like to think of it as logical truth.
Imagine, one night in 2021, I have a dream that I am in a supermarket that I know, but everything is arranged slightly different and abstract compared to how it actually is, and one of the bit part actors in the periphery is actually someone who I glanced at but thought nothing about whilst I was getting off a train in 1994. The brain has, unknowingly to my conscious, stored that tiny bit of facial information and recalled it for no apparent or possible reason 27 years later whilst I'm not even awake.
The mind is absolutely mindblowing!
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Riches Await The Patient
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There are so many ways this could be interpreted, so I will leave it to you in this case...
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Clustering For Illusions
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Humans tend to see patterns in what are completely random outcomes. In other words, it is in our natural inclination to create order from chaos.
The clustering illusion is the tendency to erroneously consider the inevitable "streaks" or "clusters" arising in small samples from random distributions to be non-random. The illusion is caused by a human tendency to underpredict the amount of variability likely to appear in a small sample of random or pseudorandom data.
More general forms of erroneous pattern recognition are pareidolia and apophenia.
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