Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A stimulus that elicits pain, fear, or avoidance.  

Sexual disorder in which people feel revolted by sex. A form of desire disorder, hypoactive sexual desire.  

Behaving in a desired manner in order to avoid something unpleasant or disagreeable.  

The nerve center in the brain particularly reactive to noxious stimuli or involved in a noxious experience.  

The length of life a person can expect to live based on average age of death.  

The aggregate attendance of a school during a reporting period (normally, a school year) divided by the number of days that the school is in session during this period.  

A process used to make probability estimates. What has happened before is likely to happen again, algorithm; heuristics.  

A mutant bacterium that will not grow on a minimal medium but requires the addition of some growth factor. A strain of a microorganism, derived by mutation, that requires one or more specific factors for growth not needed by the parent organism.  

A radical that forms a due when combined with a chromophore.  

In biology, an organism capable of producing all its protoplasmic need from inorganic sources, autotrophic.