Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A person not acceptable for insurance coverage because he or she is an excessive risk.  

Schools in which students’ progress is based on their ability rather than their chronological age.  

The first phase of Lewin’s three-part process of change. Learning occurs when a person can make an informed choice of whether to change an existing behavior. The learning, or change, process that leads to an informed choice is based on previous attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and creating receptivity to new knowledge that may provide the…

Without a sound basis in fact.  

Brucellosis.  

Showing how acceptance for behaviors stereotyped as appropriate for either sex.  

Failure of a testicle to descend into the scrotum. A condition in which one or both testicles fail to drop from inside the abdomen into the scrotum before birth; also called cryptorchidism. Failure of one or both testicles to descend into the scrotum (the protective pouch that hangs behind the penis) before birth. Known as…

A deficiency of more than 10% under one’s desirable weight. Weighing less than is medically advisable. Being 10 to 15 percent below the standard weight for one’s height. Body weight for height that is 15% to 20% below healthy weight; a body mass index below 19. By this standard, which is the one promoted both…

A term describing the handling characteristics of a vehicle that has the center of gravity located forward of the center of the vehicle making steering more difficult.