ambulance chasing n.— «In 1977, Steven Weinberg, then two years shy of the Nobel Prize in Physics, decided to do a little of what some theorists call “ambulance chasing.” He heard a rumor, while spending a year at Stanford, that...
donk n.— «Technically, Scotto explains, donks are Caprices or Impalas from the years 1971 to 1976. (One theory about the provenance of the name “donk” is the resemblance of the Impala logo to a donkey; another is that it derives from a...
bubble n.— «Technically, Scotto explains, donks are Caprices or Impalas from the years 1971 to 1976. (One theory about the provenance of the name “donk” is the resemblance of the Impala logo to a donkey; another is that it derives from a...
ostrich instruction n.— «U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve on Thursday granted the government’s request for a controversial jury instruction known as “deliberate avoidance.” The standard, also called the “ostrich...
mercury mom n.— «But the network, in its haste to dismiss the thimerosal theory as the dangerous lunacy of mercury moms and trial lawyers, may one day live to regret its unyielding certainty, in a Dewey-Defeats-Truman sort of way...
WiTricity n.— «Realizing their recent theoretical prediction, they were able to light a 60W light bulb from a power source seven feet (more than two meters) away; there was no physical connection between the source and the appliance. The...