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Today’s word, psychosomatic, is a suggestion posted at TodaysPodcast.com. In fact the poster, Tim, was kind enough to include the definition too. It is an adjective of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes. Or relating to or concerned with the influence of the mind on the [...]
24 Jan 2005
Let’s start off with a comment from Amy Gahran regarding last week’s podcast on apophenia. For those of you reading this post. Sorry you get the bulleted summary: Apohenia is a cool word There is an IT Conversations interview with William Gibson. William Gibson’s recent book Pattern Recognizer deals with apophenia and pattern recognition (obviously) [...]
21 Jan 2005
Dawn and Drew have inspired another word for today’s podcast. This one is from their January 21st podcast. The word is indigent. It is an adjective meaning extremely poor or impoverished. An indigent person lacks even the basic comforts of life. I recently read the word in reference to the U.S. hospital industry. They have [...]