interesting wikipedia entries
posted: 2025-12-29 & updated: 2026-03-06

things being on this list does not necessarily mean i like them, it might mean the opposite, or neither

• 1996_shootdown_of_Brothers_to_the_Rescue_aircraft: - incident involving cuba
• Chevalière_d’Éon: - french diplomat, spy, and soldier who had some gender stuff going on
• Democratic_centralism: - members discuss and vote on policies & leaders but then decisions are binding on all members
• Diderot_effect: - occurs when obtaining an exceptional new possession leads to a spiral of consumption
• Endospore: - a bacterium’s stripped-down, dormant form which it can reduce itself to and regenerate from later
• Ishikawa_diagram: - a type of causal diagram which outlines potential causes of a specific event
• Know_Nothing: - usian nativist political movement from the 1840s through the 1850s
• Konstantin_Yuon: - soviet artist who painted yuon new planet 1921
• Kursk_submarine_disaster: - submarine disaster that left all dead & ~150m long sub on the ocean floor at ~108m depth
• Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri: - an iranian refugee who lived in terminal 1 at charles de gaulle airport for 18 years
• Nanook: - ‘master of bears’ in inuit
• Noosphere: - the new state of the biosphere which includes “humankind’s rational activities”
• Operation_Mongoose: - plans to destabilize cuba (including sabotaging crops) - some of which were carried out
• Pollyanna_principle: - the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones
• Recuperation_(politics): - the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture
• Rosette_(botany): - a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves
• Structural_coloration: - the production of color via structured surfaces small enough to interfere with visible light
• Theodicy: - a proposed resolution to the problem of evil (arising from a both omnipotent and omnibenevolent god)
• Typhoon_Cobra: - a typhoon which struck the usian fleet during wwii
• agnatic_seniority - one of the orders of succession used by (among others) the ottoman empire
• bulla - spherical seals containing tokens used in the ancient near east as a clever way to authenticate documentation
• cupola - traditional small dome-like structures on top of buildings that admit light and air
• dōgen - founder of the sōtō school of zen and author of the shōbōgenzō
• eihei-ji - staggeringly beautiful, it is one of the main temples of the sōtō school of zen
• kalonymus ben kalonymus - jewish writer, philosopher, and translator (wrote a poem linked below)
• marcy_rheintgen - college student arrested and detained overnight for washing her hands in a women’s restroom
• piet_mondrian - painter famous for his grids but i am adding him for his paintings of trees (examples: 0 1 2)
• shikantaza - ‘just sitting’ meditation where one strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts without interference
• shōbōgenzō - the collection of works which encompass the philosophy and teachings of dōgen
• sōtō - largest of the three traditional sects of zen in japanese buddhism, which emphasizes shikantaza