Science
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
First Law of Thermodynamics
This empire built an extensive road system across the Andes without the use of wheeled vehicles or draft animals.
Inca Empire
This 1974 film features the surveillance expert Harry Caul, played by Gene Hackman.
The Conversation
This 1980s British duo, known for blending synth-pop with cinematic influences, produced hits like Bizarre Love Triangle.
New Order
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
nitrogen
This cellular organelle is responsible for protein synthesis using mRNA templates.
Ribosome
This European capital city is divided by the River Danube into historically distinct regions.
Budapest
This editing technique, theorized by Soviet filmmakers, creates meaning through the collision of shots.
Montage
This streaming platform, launched in 2007, originally focused on independent films and later became a global TV powerhouse.
Netflix
This organ in the human body produces bile to help digest fats.
Liver
In chemistry, this equation relates the pH of a solution to the pKa and the ratio of conjugate base to acid.
Henderson–Hasselbalch equation
The 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement secretly divided territories of this declining empire after World War I.
Ottoman Empire
This Iranian director is known for blending documentary and fiction in films like Close-Up.
Abbas Kiarostami
This 1999 viral phenomenon involved fans repeatedly manipulating a downloadable file of a dancing baby.
Dancing Baby / Baby Cha-Cha-Cha
In economics, this term describes a market dominated by a single seller with significant control over price.
Monopoly
This quantum mechanical principle states that certain pairs of physical properties cannot both be known precisely at the same time.
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
This geographic theory argues that control of Eastern Europe is key to global dominance.
Heartland Theory
The term diegesis refers to elements that exist in this narrative space of a film.
The story world
This Japanese street fashion style, originating in the 1990s, is characterized by Victorian-inspired dresses, lace, and dark but cute accessories.
Gothic Lolita
This 19th-century mathematician and logician is considered one of the founders of modern symbolic logic.
George Boole
This dimensionless number characterizes the flow regime of a fluid and predicts the transition from laminar to turbulent flow.
Reynolds number
This 17th-century Dutch mapmaker popularized the projection that preserves compass bearings but distorts polar size.
Gerardus Mercator
This camera movement, coined by Hitchcock, combines a dolly-in with a zoom-out to create spatial disorientation.
Dolly zoom (Vertigo effect)
This music genre, originating in the early 2010s internet, is defined by lo-fi beats, vaporwave aesthetics, and nostalgic 80s/90s samples.
Chillwave / Vaporwave
This theorem in topology states that any continuous function from an n-sphere into Euclidean n-space must map some pair of antipodal points to the same point.
Borsuk–Ulam theorem