food science
The common name for sodium bicarbonate.
baking soda
What two lines are when they intersect at a right angle.
perpendicular
Emily technically does not live in Carmel, as her zip code corresponds to this Indiana town instead.
Zionsville
This animal with a cockney accent is the mascot for the Government Employees Insurance Company.
gecko
Jenji Kohan’s comedy-drama about a woman’s prison in your area.
Orange is the New Blackpink
A process of food preservation in which packaged foods such as milk are treated with mild heat to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life.
pasteurization
Imagine Dragons song that begins with the lyric “I'm waking up to ash and dust".
“Radioactive”
Emily commonly includes a doodle of this animal in her signature.
cat
This act passed in 1996 establishes federal standards protecting sensitive health information from disclosure without patient's consent.
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
American fast food chain headquartered in Indianapolis on the first track of Taylor Swift’s 1980s-inspired synth-pop album.
Steak ‘n Shake It Off
The main active component of chili peppers which gives them their "spicy" or "hot" taste.
capsaicin
Not to be confused with the study of insects, a branch of linguistics that draws upon comparative semantics, morphology, pragmatics, and phonetics.
etymology
As a child, this is what Emily wanted to be when she grew up.
veterinarian
The amount of money charged by the insurer to the policyholder for the coverage set forth in the insurance policy is referred to by this term.
premium
Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura might compete on this online platform, contributing to a spike in the NASDAQ Composite index in the early 2000s.
chess dot-com bubble
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines this term coined in the 1960s as "a group of symptoms held to affect susceptible persons eating food heavily seasoned with monosodium glutamate".
Chinese restaurant syndrome
Emily Brontë, Franz Kafka, and Simón Bolívar died of this disease colloquially known as “the white death”.
tuberculosis
Emily shares a neighborhood with this (in)famous Carmel dance teacher, who hosted classes at her house.
Xu Miao
This company which sells life insurance has also been involved in a variety of other businesses, including radios, cameras, video game consoles, and anime.
SONY
The first Korean boy band to perform and headline at Lollapalooza “Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow X Together
Vanilla is derived from the Vanilla genus of this plant family.
Orchidaceae (orchids)
A grocery store originating in Germany that sells a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods.
delicatessen
Name three books which Emily owns (series = 1 book).
:)
Posthumously inducted into the Insurance Hall of Fame in 1976, this German statesman “founded the world’s first formalized national social insurance program”.
Otto von Bismarck
NPR’s podcast about the economy and the Oakland Athletics’ adoption of sabermetrics to assemble a competitive baseball team on a small budget.
Planet Moneyball