Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The theory that learning occurs in an all or none way.  

Beliefs and attitudes about which a person has acquired such uniform messages in socialization that the person is not aware that he or she holds such beliefs and attitudes because no alternative is available.  

Anything that does not transmit an electrical current or any other form of energy. Any substance that does not transmit heat, sound, or electricity or that conducts it with difficulty. Strictly speaking, there is no perfect nonconductor. On the application of a sufficiently high voltage, current may be caused to flow through materials usually spoken…

A disease that cannot be transmitted from one person to another. An infectious disease such as tetanus or botulism that cannot be transmitted from one person to another.  

A health insurance policy that states that the insured has the right to continue in force the policy by payment of the designated premiums and that the insurance company cannot alter the provisions unilaterally.  

Giving up one’s basic rights so others may achieve theirs, assertion; aggression.  

The characteristics possessed by individuals that make them similar.  

A series of graphs that interpolate human data and predict degree of body fat, metabolic rate, and desirable caloric intake. A tool in the form of a graph in which the scales for at least three variables are so constructed and placed that a straight line drawn between the appropriate values on two of the…

In epidemiology, the data from variables that name things; they do not measure or quantify amounts.  

A defense mechanism. Having a constantly migratory lifestyle, as is practiced by some animals and humans.