Continental philosophy[r]: Collective term for the many distinct philospohical traditions, methods, and styles that predominated on the European continent (particularly France and Germany) from the time of Immanuel Kant. [e]
Cranial capacity[r]: Measure of the volume of the interior of the cranium (also called the braincase or brainpan) of those vertebrates who have both a cranium and a brain. [e]
Erik Christopher Zeeman[r]: (born 1925) Mathematician, known for work in geometric topology and singularity theory and for his promotion of catastrophe theory. [e]
Francis Bacon[r]: (1561-1626) English Renaissance essayist and philosopher who argued that science should proceed empirically, by induction. [e]
Ghrelin[r]: A hormone produced by P/D1 cells lining the fundus of the human stomach that stimulate appetite. [e]
Logical positivism[r]: A school of philosophy that combines positivism—which states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge—with some kind of logical analysis, which is similar, but not the same as logicism. [e]
Lord Rayleigh[r]: (1842 – 1919) physicist who made fundamental discoveries in the fields of acoustics and optics; 1904 Nobel Prize for isolation of argon. [e]