Business / Finance / Mortality Tables: Tables of probability that individuals of various ages will die within one year. MORE
Health / Massage / Dantien: The area of the hara approximately two finger-widths below the navel is called the lower dantien (or tanden). Dan means the medicine of immortality; tien means field. Is is the field of the elixir of MORE
Science / Marine Biology / Ld50: The value of a given experimental variable required to cause 50% mortality. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Common Measure: Also called common meter, common measure consists of closed poetic quatrains rhyming ABAB or ABCB, in which the lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) alternate with lines of iambic trimeter (si MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Ode: A long, often elaborate stanzaic poem of varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes dealing with a serious subject matter and treating it reverently. The ode is usually much longer tha MORE
Life Style / Wine / French Paradox: An 1991 episode of the American news program 60 Minutes that documented the low mortality rate from cardiovascular disease among the French who had a high-alcohol, high-cholesterol and low exercise li MORE