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Hi! My name is Keke, and I’m a Biewer Terrier puppy. In this post, I’d like to answer some questions I’ve received from my legions of loyal fans. (Okay, maybe it’s more like a posse than a legion, but I usually get at least one email a month from my loyal followers.) So here are the top three questions I get. The third most frequently asked question is, “What the heck is a Biewer Terrier?

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Dear Subscribers, Welcome to the latest edition of the HealthVC newsletter. Today we're diving deep into a critical but often less understood provision in the VC world: the Clawback. Whether you're a budding entrepreneur, an investor, or just keen to learn more about the intricacies of venture capital, this is an essential concept to grasp. What is a Clawback? At its core, a clawback provision ensures fairness in the allocation of profits between limited partners (LPs) and the general partner (GP) in a venture capital fund.

Reader donations fund Those Nerdy Girls. Help keep the lights on by becoming a paid subscriber today. Upgrade to Paid Subscription What is a confounder (confounding variable), and why should I care? -- Tips for making sense of science Confounders (or confounding variables) are factors that are associated with both the “cause” and “effect” (or exposure and outcome) in a potential cause-and-effect relationship. If ignored, they can cause misleading results and conclusions.

This morning over coffee, I reflected on my last post about President Biden’s strange habit of gobbling frightened children, and I found myself wondering about the etymology of the world GHOUL. Turns out the word derives from the pre-Islamic Arabic world غول, ghūl)— a desert-dwelling humanoid demon that robs graves and devours the dead. The following graph plots its usage over time: Note the initial rise in the 1880s, when the British were fascinated by Arab culture and ghost stories.

Q: What is a metapheme ? A juggalo (or juggalette) is a fan of the 1990s hip-hop band Insane Clown Posse whose absurdist “dark carnival” ethos encouraged people to conceal their faces in macabre clown make-up and gather for strange new festivals. This is anarchically explained in their infamous 1997 song What is a Juggalo? A METAPHEME (on the other hand) is a word I invented nonchalantly to describe the entire class of patterns that populate the general “space” of vision-logic insights.

Do we regularly grow “monoculture plantations” in Canada? If one defines “monoculture” as “a forest (or farm) growing a single crop species,” most Canadian foresters would probably say “no.” After we harvest our forests, we try to regrow the variety of species that were already there, using a mix of planted and natural regeneration. However, anyone reading a newspaper lately might get a different idea. Here are just a few op-ed statements I have come across recently:

Mike Vladimer is the creator of Nascent Startups, a free newsletter and mentoring community to help founders of new startups. Over the past 20 years, Mike has started 10 startups and mentored 100 founders through UC Berkeley and Alchemist Accelerator. The word “nascent” means "beginning to exist or develop" in other words "only recently formed or started, but likely to grow larger quickly" I’m passionate about this question: “You’ve got an idea for a tech startup.

What is a neighborhood?  Is it a collection of buildings, roads, walkways, street lights? Is it a group of people living in proximity to one another? Is it an accumulation of histories, memories, some inked into the public record, others lost to time? When I first moved into my neighborhood in 2012, I was a whole person with a whole life coming from a whole other state. I’d just turned 24 and I had come here for graduate school without much knowledge of Los Angeles, its neighborhoods, its ecologies.