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• Scientific Method: The widely held philosophy that a theory can never be proved, only disproved, and that all attempts to explain anything are therefore futile.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• Physical Chemistry: The pitiful attempt to apply y=mx+b to everything in the universe.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• Chemical Engineering: The practice of doing for a profit what an organic chemist only does for fun.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
• The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year that the human race has in its entire history.
  -- Ray Bradbury...
• pamblock /spam'blok/ n. [poss. by analogy to sunblock] Text inserted in an email address to render it invalid and thus useless to spammers.
  For example, the address `jrandom@hacker.org' might be transformed to `jrandom@NOSPAM....
• Milwaukee Journal, about two years ago (on the front page)
  MATH TEST RESULTS ADD UP TO A FAILURE - Only 14% of eighth grade students show average proficiency Washington DC - AP - Just one in seven eighth grade students nationwide can exhibit average proficiency in mathematics, according to a federal ....
• 3d stereogram - slightly cross your eyes and relax them to see row depths h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b e e e e e e e e e e e e e r r r r r r r r r r r ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt -- jim.
  hebert@east.sun.com...
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....