A census-designated place in Humboldt County, Nevada, United States.

(programming) The situation where a programmer sees less powerful programming languages than those he/she knows as lacking in important features, but more powerful ones as having bizarre or unnecessary features.

Psittacula eques, a parrot endemic to the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and formerly Réunion.

Alternative form of chronic bee paralysis virus

(virology) A virus that infects bees such as those of species Apis mellifera and causes paralysis and death of the bees.

An apparent paradox within the subjectivistic interpretation of probability theory, in which two people wager over whose necktie is cheapest, with the owner of the more expensive tie giving it to the other. Taking the wager seems to be to the advantage of both people.

(economics) The phenomenon that uncertainty about future prices can theoretically push rational consumers to temporarily trade away their preferred consumption goods (or currency) for non-preferred goods (or currency), as part of a plan to trade back to the preferred consumption goods after prices become clearer.

An apparent paradox in probability theory, illustrated by various questions about the probability of a child within a family being of a particular sex.

(economics) The paradox raised by a particular (theoretical) lottery game that leads to a random variable with infinite expected value (i.e. infinite expected payoff) but nevertheless seems to be worth only a very small amount to the participants.

An early test using hot paraffin wax to take a cast of a suspect's hand, which was then sprayed with a reagent to gauge the presence of propellant particles indicating that the person had fired a gun.