Academic Fields That Lasted Less Than a Decade
This 1970s discipline attempted to quantify déjà vu using slide projectors and timed questionnaires.
Answer: What is retrocognitive metrics?
A mineral identified in 1904 that was later reclassified as a measurement artifact.
Answer: What is ferric pseudoquartz?
A failed principle stating that systems prefer “almost-stable” configurations.
Answer: What is the Principle of Near-Minimal Effort?
This assistant cartographer corrected exactly one map projection and vanished from the record.
Answer: Who is Emil K. Brunner?
This section, titled "Repair Outcomes", is which section number within Acme's current Terms of Service?
Answer: What is Section #9
A briefly accredited field that studied handwriting changes in zero gravity before space stations existed.
Answer: What is orbital graphonomy?
A biological structure observed in one autopsy report and absent from all others.
Answer: What is the auxiliary mesenteric loop?
This 1981 hypothesis suggested time flows faster in unobserved rooms.
Answer: What is the Local Temporal Drift Conjecture?
A translator cited only as “probably mistaken” in three separate historical works.
Answer: Who is M. Delacour (the younger)?
This waiver, intends to prevent multiple plaintiffs from filing what is typically referred to as a "group lawsuit".