Seven Days of Selachimorpha
This fearsome shark has the strongest bite of any living fish and is infamous for its role in pop culture.
What is the Great White Shark?
Steel is primarily made by combining iron with this element, which adds strength and hardness.
What is carbon?
This literary condition occurs when a writer uses more words than necessary, often to sound smart—but ends up just being confusing.
What is Wordiness?
Status quo
What is the current state of affairs?
This fallacy argues that a relatively small step will inevitably lead to a chain of related (and often disastrous) events.
What is Slippery Slope?
This is the largest shark species—and also the largest fish alive today.
What is the Whale Shark?
This type of steel contains at least 10.5% chromium, which makes it resistant to rust and staining.
What is stainless steel?
This punctuation mark sparked heated arguments about clarity when the Oxford University Press decided to drop it from their official style guide.
What is the Oxford Comma?
Crème de la crème
What is the best of the best or the elite?
This fallacy attacks the person making the argument rather than the argument itself.
What is an ad hominem?
Known as one of the fastest sharks in the ocean, this torpedo-shaped predator can reach up to 60 mph.
What is the shortfin mako shark?
This process involves heating and cooling steel to change its strength and hardness.
What is heat treatment?
(Acceptable: What is annealing, quenching, or tempering?)
In legal documents, this common three-letter pronoun has caused numerous lawsuits due to its ambiguity in contracts.
What is its?
Raison d'être
What is a reason for being or purpose in life?
This fallacy misrepresents someone's argument to make it easier to attack.
What is a straw man?
Rarely seen by humans, this deep-sea “living fossil” has a long, eel-like body and hundreds of needle-like teeth.
What is the frilled shark?
This term refers to the stress level in which steel can endure an infinite number of load cycles without failing—unlike materials that wear out no matter what.
What is the fatigue limit?
This confusing communication issue happens when someone strings together grammatically correct words that don’t actually make sense together—often seen in corporate emails or during nervous public speaking.
What is jargon?
Je ne sais quoi
What is an indescribable or mysterious quality?
This fallacy claims that something must be true because everyone believes it.
What is bandwagon appeal?
This benthic ambush predator uses its leaf-like appearance to hide on the ocean floor.
What is the spotted wobbegong?
This ancient civilization is credited with early high-quality steel production using crucible techniques, famously known as Wootz steel.
What is India?
This happens when two people use the same word—like “freedom” or “fair”—but mean totally different things, leading to confusion instead of clarity.
What is a semantic disagreement?
Faux pas
What is a social mistake or blunder?
This fallacy assumes that because two things happened in sequence, one must have caused the other.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?