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A method of creating temporary images on walls by removing dirt from a surface.

Various breaks, irregularities, or non-lexical vocables that occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech, including:

• false starts, i.e. words and sentences that are cut off mid-utterance, phrases that are restarted or repeated and repeated syllables, 
• fillers i.e. grunts or non-lexical utterances such as “uh”, “erm” and “well”, and 
• repaired utterances, i.e. instances of speakers correcting their own slips of the tongue or mispronunciations (before anyone else gets a chance to).

A derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines.

A basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. Bothies are particularly common in the Scottish Highlands.

The experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.

A gate guardian is a withdrawn piece of equipment, often an aircraft, armoured vehicle, artillery piece or locomotive, mounted on a plinth and used as a static display near to and forming a symbolic display of “guarding” the main entrance to somewhere.

Motivated reasoning leads people to confirm what they already believe, while ignoring contrary data.

But it also drives people to develop elaborate rationalizations to justify holding beliefs that logic and evidence have shown to be wrong.

Motivated reasoning responds defensively to contrary evidence, actively discrediting such evidence or its source without logical or evidentiary justification.

Clearly, motivated reasoning is emotion driven. It seems to be assumed by sociologists that motivated reasoning is driven by a desire to avoid cognitive dissonance. Self-delusion, in other words, feels good, and that’s what motivates people to vehemently defend obvious falsehoods.

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Cats are also known to make chirping or chattering noises when observing prey, or as a means of expressing interest in an object to nearby humans.

While this behaviour was originally viewed as the feline equivalent of song, recent animal behaviorists have come to believe this noise is a “rehearsal behaviour” in which it anticipates or practises the killing of prey, because the sound usually accompanies a biting movement similar to the one they use to kill their prey (the “killing bite” which saws through the victim’s neck vertebrae).

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AKA - Sleep / sleep dust / fairy dust.