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NXIVM (/ ˈ n ɛ k s i ə m / NEK-see-əm) was a cult led by convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. NXIVM is also the name of the defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential development, and served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close associates.
Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), [2] reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. [3] There are competing theories explaining hypnosis and related phenomena.
Lea Ypi. Lea Ypi (born 8 September 1979) [1] is an Albanian academic and author. She is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. [2] In 2022, she was named one of the world's top ten thinkers by the British magazine Prospect [3] and one of the most important cultural figures by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. [4]
Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.
The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed and published in 1905 and 1915, respectively. [1] Special relativity applies to all physical phenomena in the absence of gravity. General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its ...
String theory. In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other. On distance scales larger than the string scale, a string looks just ...
PDCA. PDCA or plan–do–check–act (sometimes called plan–do–check–adjust) is an iterative design and management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products. [1] It is also known as the Shewhart cycle, or the control circle / cycle. Another version of this PDCA cycle is OPDCA. [2]
Trigonometry. Trigonometry (from Ancient Greek τρίγωνον (trígōnon) 'triangle', and μέτρον (métron) 'measure') [1] is a branch of mathematics concerned with relationships between angles and side lengths of triangles. In particular, the trigonometric functions relate the angles of a right triangle with ratios of its side lengths.