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Apophenia (/ æ p oʊ ˈ f iː n i ə /) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. [1]The term (German: Apophänie from the Greek verb: ἀποφαίνειν, romanized: apophaínein) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia. [2]
Scholarly and popular analyses of rare events often focus on those events that could be reasonably expected to have a substantial negative effect on a society—either economically [6] or in terms of human casualties [7] (typically, both). Examples of such events might include an 8.0+ Richter magnitude earthquake, a nuclear incident that kills ...
A property of weird numbers is that if n is weird, and p is a prime greater than the sum of divisors σ(n), then pn is also weird. [4] This leads to the definition of primitive weird numbers: weird numbers that are not a multiple of other weird numbers (sequence A002975 in the OEIS). Among the 1765 weird numbers less than one million, there are ...
Rare events meaning "once in a blue moon" include: unwaith yn y pedwar amser ("once in the four seasons") and unwaith yn y pedwar gwynt ("once in the four winds").
The number 17. Fear of the number 17 is known as heptadecaphobia and is prominent in Italian culture. [6] The number 39. Fear of the number 39 is known as the curse of 39, especially in Afghan culture. [7] The number 43. In Japanese culture, maternity wards numbered 43 are considered taboo, as the word for the number means "stillbirth". [8] The ...
When Nature Gets Weird: 50 Odd Facts That May Leave You Looking At The World Differently ... Scientists have determined that the number of stars in the Milky Way ranges from 100 billion to upwards ...
Jung defined synchronicity as “the coincidence in time of two or more causally unrelated events which have the same meaning.” (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; photos Getty Images)
A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances that have no apparent causal connection with one another. [2] The perception of remarkable coincidences may lead to supernatural , occult , or paranormal claims, or it may lead to belief in fatalism , which is a doctrine that events will happen in the exact manner of a ...