Social Theory
This theorist is most associated with the analysis of Protestantism as an underlying current within the logic of early Capitalism.
Max Weber
The value of the next best alternative foregone when a choice is made (AP Macro)
Opportunity cost
This incredibly prolific Swiss mathematician has a fundamental constant named after him.
Leonhard Euler
This novel is set in the Roaring Twenties and follows the life of a newly-minted millionaire and his often fatal impact on those around him.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Follows the exploits of trash-collecting robot after humanity has long left Earth.
Wall-E
On the first day of class, this essential document outlines the course schedule, expectations, and grading policy.
syllabus
Especially popular during the humid Korean summers, this chilled buckwheat noodle dish often comes in an icy broth.
Naengmyeon
Despite their name, this K-pop group has only 13 members.
Seventeen
The Vatican
Vatican City, Vatican City
This term describes transitional "in-between" places or states, such as empty hallways, parking garages at night, or life transitions like graduating or leaving home.
Liminal spaces (or, liminality)
Experimental results caused by expectations alone (AP Psych)
This famous topological object has only one continuous surface and one edge, and can easily be modeled by giving a strip of paper a half-twist and taping the ends together.
Mobius Strip
While Orwell's 1984 may have described the overt repressive forces of the 20th century, this counterpart novel better fits the 21st - it reveals the dystopian elements within our personal notions of utopia, and lays bare the limitations of hedonism as an ethos.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Based on the novel by Frank Herbert, this tells the tale of young Paul, an Atreides prince pitted against the Harkonnen.
Dune
A prerequisite is a course you must take before another, while this term refers to a class you must take at the exact same time.
Corequisite
This city is widely-recognized as the original home of pizza.
Naples, Italy
The Italian baroque master who composed a series of seasonal violin concertos has a Cheongna apartment complex named after him.
Antonio Vivaldi
The Forbidden City
Beijing, China
Horkheimer argues that modern societies often use rationality only as a tool to achieve given goals, rather than asking whether those goals are just or good in themselves. The term that describes this is known as _____________.
instrumental reason
The specific region on an enzyme where the substrate binds and the chemical reaction is catalyzed (AP Bio)
active site
Named after an 18th-century reverend, this theorem describes the probability of an event based on prior knowledge of conditions related to the event and forms part of the mathematical logic of LLMs.
Bayes' Theorem
A Gothic novel that explores the destructive nature of all-consuming love, passion, and vengeance across generations as it follows the tempestuous relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Korean horror movie that deals in the occultism of Korean shamanism and the ritualism of grave relocation.
Exhuma
Freshman 15
The name of this traditional bite-sized Chinese brunch tradition, served in steamer baskets, translates poetically to "touch the heart.
Dim sum
The first hip-hop artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Kendrick Lamar
La Sagrada Familia
Barcelona, Catalonia
This radical thinker is known for the socio-political and economic model of historical analysis known as 'base and superstructure.'
Antonio Gramsci
The ___________________________ explains how a population changes from high birth/death rates to low birth/death rates as a country develops industrially and socially (AP HuGe)
Demographic Transition Model
This famous logical paradox asks whether the set of all sets that do not contain themselves contains itself.
Russell's Paradox
Human Acts by Han Kang
Follows a princess attempting to rescue her people after the Seven Days of Fire, an apocalyptic war that destroyed civilization and caused an ecocide, creating the vast Toxic Jungle, a poisonous forest swarming with giant mutant insects.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Canvas, Blackboard, and Moodle are all examples of this three-letter acronym for the digital platforms where you submit essays and check your grades.
LMS (Learning Management System)
Found naturally in chili peppers, this chemical compound binds to pain receptors in your mouth, tricking your brain into thinking it is experiencing physical heat.
Capsaicin
Sometimes they are referred to as the Korean Metallica.
N.EX.T (New Experiment Team)
Dotonburi
Osaka, Japan
The term for the fallacy of treating an abstract concept, idea, or model as if it were a concrete, physical, or real entity is known as this. A sub-context would be commodification.
reification
This is the probability that a significance test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative is true (AP Stats)
Power
If a group's operation satisfies the commutative property a * b = b * a for all elements, the group is called this.
A satirical novel full of black humor that plays at humanity's erstwhile masochistic relationship with apocalypticism and introduces a strange new religion: Bokononism.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem, this follows a psychologist sent to a sentient planet that has caused the inhabitants to lose their minds.
Solaris
Often an older student, this student lives on your floor to mediate roommate disputes, enforce quiet hours, and accidentally lock you out of the bathroom.
Resident Advisor (RA)
Kopi Luwak, one of the most expensive coffees in the world, is made from coffee cherries that have "traveled" through this.
A cat
A musical symbol placed at the beginning of a staff to indicate higher pitches, specifically wrapping around the second line to mark it as G4.
treble clef (or, G-clef)
The Blue Mosque
Istanbul, Turkey