Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Elongated cells with tapering ends and thick secondary walls, usually nonliving at maturity.  

A mixture of philosophy, psychology, and special counseling techniques, the object of which is to bring the reactive or unconscious mind under control of the analytical or conscious mind. A religious movement begun in 1952 which teaches immortality and reincarnation, and claims a sure psychotherapeutic method for freeing the individual from personal problems, increasing human…

An interrelated set of propositions that explain phenomena being examined and that can be tested by making logical predictions based upon them.  

Strict adherence to a protocol that specifies the experimental treatment in procedural detail.  

The state of being unbiased by personal values, beliefs, or expectations in the conduct of scientific research.  

Principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge, involving collection of data (facts) through observations and experimentation and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.  

An approach to management that emphasizes the “one best way” to perform a task.  

A view of health phenomena from a scientific, clinical viewpoint. Used esp. in relation to sexual phenomena, secular ideology.  

Seeking to establish general laws connecting a number of facts resulting in a possession of knowledge attained through study (research) or practice. A study based on looking at and recording facts, especially facts arranged into a system. The intellectual process using all available mental and physical resources to better understand, explain, quantitate, and predict normal…

A major collection of nerve fibers arising from the lumbosacral plexus and subserving most sensation of the lower extremity and motion of the leg and foot. Nerve running from the lower spine down the thigh to the knee region, where it divides into two nerves that supply the lower leg. The major nerve of the…