Dadaism, the avant-garde European artistic movement of the early twentieth century, a phenomenon in which the postwar economic and moral sentiments gave birth to art that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos.

The term "negative feedback" comes originally not from psychology, but from electronics, which uses the term to describe a part of a circuit that detects a positive signal and that, in response, takes action to diminish that signal.

In the Surgeon General's Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress, researchers claim that new regulations requiring that any movie depicting smoking receives an adult rating drives rates down further.

Reading difficulty can be measured according to Flesch-Kincaid grade levels; if they rate a passage at higher grade level, the more difficult the passage is to comprehend.

Golf clubs with graphite shafts are favored by many less-experienced players to maximize their shot's distance, designed to be both lightweight and to take less force to swing.

While a wealth of data support the belief that there is a recession already under way, some analysts say that conclusive evidence will not be available until next quarter.

In the famous thought experiment that inspired the theory of relativity, Einstein asked himself whether a beam of light would look the same to an observer moving alongside the beam at the same speed as an observer who was stationary.

Unlike the belief of the non-academics involved that the panel proceedings are subterfuge for discrimination, the academic peers of the professor under review are better equipped to evaluate the contributions and performance of their colleague in the review of potential termination due to neglect of duty.

A new law proposed by privacy advocates would increase the amount of tint that carmakers have been allowed to build into the windows of their vehicles.

Although the candidate's approval rating is at an all-time low, his remarks aired in tonight's press conference seem like it is suggestive that his bid for reelection, previously thought improbable, is all but inevitable.

Today, because of the greater efficiency of communicating online, a typical business meeting is attended by double the people that it has been in 1995.

When snowfall is heavy, the snow leopard is known to descend to lower elevations and frequent mountain slopes whose conditions also are favorable to the leopard's prey, such as the markor.

The evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium maintains that the characteristics that are possessed by any given species developed over long periods of stability interrupted by short periods of rapid change.

The number of gray whales spotted migrating south off the Southern California coast was 364 in December, prompting uncertainty as to whether the population of the endangered species actually doubled that of the 20,000 estimate of the previous year.