Mos Def
The editors of About.com listed him as the 14th greatest rapper on their "50 Greatest Rappers of All Time" list --wikipedia
Brian Gibbs
sleep deprivation
"the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep" -- wikipedia.org
"A thousand prayers cannot equal one single act of surrender..."
"...remember this well. There is no novena more effective than this: O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything!" -- Father Dolindo Ruotolo
cord-cutting ritual
"aims to replenish your emotional, energetic, and mental supply. Being tied to draining relationships can deprive you of energy. Cord-cutting ceremonies also free you from relationships that don’t mesh with your life at a given time" --mindfulzen.co
Christ with Arms Folded, by Rembrandt
c. 1657-1661, oil on canvas
Federal Reserve (US banking system)
Congress established three key objectives for monetary policy in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913: maximizing employment, stabilizing prices, and moderating long-term interest rates --wikipedia
out of control
"no longer possible to manage" -- Google dictionary
"you get what you pay for"
"used to say that a thing that can be bought for a very low price probably isn't very good" -- merriam-webster.com
oxymoron
"something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements" -- merriam-webster.com
Wells Fargo
ranked 41st on the Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in the US --wikipedia
Oman
was calibrated at 90 in Truth vs. Falsehood, 2005
hot take
a "piece of deliberately provocative commentary that is based almost entirely on shallow moralizing" in response to a news story, "usually written on tight deadlines with little research or reporting, and even less thought" --wikipedia
snobbism / snobbery
posture of looking down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes
Robert Epstein (professor)
In a 2017 article, Epstein criticized efforts by companies such as Google and Facebook to suppress fake news through algorithms, noting "the dangers in allowing big technology companies to decide which news stories are legitimate" --wikipedia
Bell's theorem (quantum mechanics)
a term encompassing a number of closely related results in physics, all of which determine that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local hidden-variable theories given some basic assumptions about the nature of measurement --wikipedia