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To praise someone when they are doing something good. The vowels are often emphasized, as in "sheeesh". The one being praised is to do the "ice in my veins" pose popularized by Basketball player D'Angelo Russell. Believed to be a variation of another word such as "jeez," "Jesus," or "shit." First used in 1955 as a word to express ...
Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage is a 2009 book on camouflage and mimicry, in nature and military usage, by the science writer and journalist Peter Forbes.It covers the history of these topics from the 19th century onwards, describing the discoveries of Henry Walter Bates, Alfred Russel Wallace and Fritz Müller, especially their studies of butterflies in the Amazon.
2008. Media type. Print ( Hardcover) Pages. 256. ISBN. 9781847063472. How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time is a 2008 book by Iain King. It sets out a history of moral philosophy and presents new ideas in ethics, which have been described as quasi-utilitarianism.
Jamie Dimon says some private credit ratings ‘shocked’ him, evoking bad memories of mortgages before the Great Recession: ‘There could be hell to pay’ Will Daniel May 30, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Angel on My Shoulder is a 1946 American fantasy film about a deal between the Devil and a dead man.. The Adventures of Tintin comics used this concept in at least two stories. . In The Red Sea Sharks (1958), Captain Haddock's bad angel persuades him to drink a bottle of whisky, but the bottle smashes before he is able to drink it, leaving the good angel victorio
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Good and evil. In Ary Scheffer 's 1854 painting The Temptation of Christ, the devil (right), the personification of evil, tempts Christ (left), the personification of the character and will of God. In philosophy, religion, and psychology, " good and evil " is a common dichotomy. In religions with Manichaean and Abrahamic influence, evil is ...
v. t. e. Schadenfreude ( / ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a borrowed word from German; the English word for it is ...
Specifically, the outcome effect occurs when the same "behavior produce[s] more ethical condemnation when it happen[s] to produce bad rather than good outcome, even if the outcome is determined by chance." While similar to the hindsight bias, the two phenomena are markedly different. Hindsight bias focuses on memory distortion to favor the ...
Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-so Sounds So-so, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten (usually simply known as Great Sounds Great) is the second EP by The Clean, a lo-fi rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. It was released by Flying Nun Records on 12" vinyl in 1982.