Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Artificial substances that are added to food to change one’s perception of its flavor.  

In insurance policies, everyone in a group is insured for the same benefits regardless of salary or position.  

An organizational chart that is characterized by few levels and relatively large spans of management.  

In psychology, a deviation in emotional response wherein virtually no emotion is expressed what ever the stimuli. Emotional expressiveness is blunted, or a lack of expression and muscle tone is noted in the face.    

Slang for exhibitionist.  

A short, intense, generalized sensation of total well-being experienced soon after intravenous injection of cocaine or methamphetamine, the so-called rush reaction. A hot flash. A flush accompanied by a sensation of heat. It is common during menopause.  

That portion of the chest wall in a flail chest injury lying between the rib fractures and moving paradoxically with respiration.  

A condition of the chest wall following an injury characterized by a free segment that moves paradoxically when the person breathes is caused by fractures of several ribs in two or more places each. A condition in which the chest is not stable, because several ribs have been broken. Condition where three or more consecutive…

The process of applying reinforcement after a fixed number of responses, fixed interval schedule; schedule of reinforcement.  

In pharmacology, a drug preparation containing a combination of two or more drug ingredients intended to relieve multiple symptoms.