Special Effects
Residents of Erie County, N.Y. know when the forecast is lake effects, this is coming, along with freezing air & surface temps
snow
Leave your cruise ship for dry land
disembark
Specialty coffee pioneer Peet's opened in 1966 in this city, home to a University of California campus
Berkeley
Numbers adding up to 31 are in this expression that means "constantly"; I use it to describe how frequently my kids are on TikTok
24/7
WBC are short for these in your body; your doc may ask for a count of them
White blood cells
Due to this effect named for a home invader of lore, people seek out options that are not too extreme, i.e., "just right"
Goldilocks effect
Going back to Shakespeare, it is said that this "is the better part of valor"
discretion
From 1933 until his death, Albert Einstein was on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in this college town
Princeton
This word meaning "rarely" describes how infrequently I hear a discouraging word when I'm "Home On The Range"
seldom
Similar to a laser is a maser; the "M" stands for radiation formed in this part of the electromagnetic spectrum
Microwave
This psychological effect is named for a leader who didn't die in prison in the '80s, though many people wrongly recalled otherwise
Mandela effect
In the military, murder & desertion are grounds for this severe type of 2-word dismissal
dishonorable discharge
R.E.M. & the B-52s were among the first group of inductees on this Georgia city's Music Walk of Fame
Athens
It's a short form of a word for "frequently"; I use it when I'm doing Mark Antony's speech from "Julius Caesar"
oft
Abbreviated A.R., this elongated band of water vapor has 5 categories of strength, just like a hurricane
atmospheric river
The effect of this effect is that patients sometimes get better even when treated with inactive substances or fake procedures
placebo
Newspapers for Columbus, Ohio & St. Louis feature this word in their names
dispatch
Home to Dartmouth, in 2024 it ranked among the 10 best small college towns in a USA Today readers' choice poll
Hanover
This word starts with a prefix meaning "between" & describes the on-again, off-again Wi-Fi signal in my dressing room
intermittent
Found in DNA, BPs are these, nitrogenous molecules joined by hydrogen bonds
base pairs
In "Outliers" he wrote about the Matthew Effect, a sociological phenomenon in which, loosely speaking, the rich get richer
Gladwell
It's a product such as Lysol that's designed to kill germs on a surface
disinfectant
Twin cities make up this University of Illinois college town that's 2 hours south of Chicago
Urbana-Champaign
For the frequency of my workouts I'd use this 8-letter word from Greek for "scattered" that sounds like the way some fungi germinate
sporadic
Many groups, including the EPA, are concerned about CCD, this phenomenon in which worker bees abandon the queen
colony collapse disorder