Posted by
Jeevan Sivasubramaniam,
Managing Director, Editorial,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.
This video was done as a social experiment to see how people can trick themselves (because of certain external stimuli) into believing that someone who is a complete unknown is ....
This video was done as a social experiment to see how people can trick themselves (because of certain external stimuli) into believing that someone who is a complete unknown is in fact a celebrity or star whom they have always admired. It's as entertaining as it is disturbing and it shows the ways in which we can force ourselves to believe almost anything based on our need to believe.
Zoilist
Zoilist
(noun):
A person who thoroughly enjoys finding fault with others or in things around him or her.Say the word out loud to yourself now that you know the meaning and see how many people...
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Jumentous
Jumentous: Pronounced
/d Š’u ‹ ‹Ë†m ‰-nt ‰â„¢s/: Smelling distinctly like horse urine.
Why someone saw fit to create a word that specifically identified horse urine when even humans don't...
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Blesiloquent
Blesiloquent: To speak with a stutter or a lispWas it just a cruel twist of fate that this word would be a challenge to pronounce for those who have a lisp or a stutter?
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Bever
Bever (noun): A snack between meals."The problem with bevers is that they end up containing more calories than meals."
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Jiffle
Jiffle (verb): To fidget or shuffle restlesslyAn easy word to remember because it sounds like a combination of the words "fidget" and shuffle."
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