Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The organism that causes a disease.  

The condition characterizing plants grown in the dark or in light of very low intensity. The elongation of internodes and the absence of chlorophyll pigmentation which arise from the development of a botanical organism under inadequate luminosity or absolute obscurity.  

An acronym for Environmental Teratology Information Center Backfile.  

Ethanol. Active ingredient in beer, wine, and distilled spirits.  

The study of the means by which people reach agreements about the nature of the world.  

Anthropologists’ data on the habits and conventions within other cultures, ethnographic map.  

Used by anthropologists to plot the habits, conventions, and other pertinent data of cultures in a geographic area.  

A person who studies a society and describes it for others. Usually the society is a nonindus-trialized society and is not native to that of the Cultural anthropologists.  

The belief that a person’s own group is superior to all other groups. The result of this belief is the rejection of all out-groups. A belief that one’s own way of viewing and experiencing the world is superior to other perspectives; a mindset that judges the actions and beliefs of others according to one’s own…

The study of biology in context; studying life forms in their natural environments. The study of the biological characteristics of various races.