🔍 professional mourning
a place for the wiki stuff i’ve loved — some useful, many not, but all part of my endless curiosity.
🔍 professional mourning
professional mourning or paid mourning is a type of public performance in which actors pretend to grieve for the recently deceased, with the goal of being indistinguishable from real mourners.
🔍 list of longest walks
this is a list of the longest walks that have occurred in groups and on solo or duo projects. Many have promoted social causes or medical conditions. Some have been done mostly for the experience.
🔍 availability cascade
an availability cascade is a self-reinforcing cycle that explains the development of certain kinds of collective beliefs.
🔍 pizza effect
in religious studies and sociology, the pizza effect is the phenomenon of elements of a nation's or people's culture being transformed or at least more fully embraced elsewhere, then re-exported to their culture of origin, or the way in which a community's self-understanding is influenced by (or imposed by, or imported from) foreign sources. Related phrases include "hermeneutical feedback loop", "re-enculturation", and "self-orientalization".
🔍 letter to Yi Ŭngt'ae
in 1998, a 16th-century letter from a grieving pregnant widow to her deceased husband Yi Ŭngt'ae was discovered in Yi's tomb in Jeongsang-dong, Andong, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
🔍 riot dog
a riot dog is a stray dog that accompanies street protesters. The term originated during the 2008 Greek riots when a number of stray dogs remained among the protesters even when violent rioting broke out.A few riot dogs have acquired a large following of fans around the world such as the Greek Loukanikos and Negro Matapacos in Chile.
🔍 cow tipping
