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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
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Q_4_10 — Fluid Dynamics: Turbulence, Navier-Stokes, and the Millennium Problem
Fluid dynamics is the study of the motion of fluids (liquids and gases) — a branch of physics with applications spanning aeronautics, meteorology, oceanography, astrophysics, cardiovascular medicine, chemical engineering
Q_2_19 — Modified Gravity Theories: MOND, TeVeS & Alternatives to Dark Matter
Modified gravity theories propose that the observed discrepancies between predicted and measured gravitational effects in galaxies and galaxy clusters — conventionally attributed to dark matter — instead result from modi
INTERDOC_17 — Navigation, Seafaring, and the Lost Maritime Web
The Austronesian expansion — beginning ~3500 BCE from Taiwan and reaching Madagascar (~500 CE), Hawaii (~1000 CE), and New Zealand (~1250 CE) — represents the greatest sustained maritime achievement of the pre-modern wor
ZB_1_12 — Animal Play Behavior
Play behavior — voluntary, seemingly purposeless activity involving modified versions of functional behaviors — is observed across mammals, many birds, and some reptiles, fish, and invertebrates, yet remains one of the m
ZB_5_25 — Animal Migration: Navigation, Endurance, and Ecological Connectivity
Animal migration — the seasonal, round-trip movement of populations between distinct habitats — represents some of the most extraordinary feats of endurance, navigation, and sensory capability in biology. Arctic terns (S
O_2_07 — Anomalous Animal Behavior Before Earthquakes and Storms
Reports of anomalous animal behavior preceding earthquakes and severe weather events span millennia and cultures: the earliest known written account dates to 373 BCE (Diodorus Siculus describing rats, weasels, snakes, an
T_4_03 — Group Psychology and Crowd Behavior
Group psychology examines how individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence and actions of others — from small groups to mass crowds. Foundational research includes Gustave Le Bon's The Cr
T_5_10 — The Psychology of Money: Behavioral Economics, Financial Decision-Making, and Wealth Psychology
The psychology of money explores how cognitive biases, emotional responses, social pressures, and personality traits systematically distort financial decision-making — departing dramatically from the "rational economic a
F_3_21 — Compass Navigation and Its Global Spread
The magnetic compass — one of China's "Four Great Inventions" — transformed navigation from a coastal, celestial, and dead-reckoning art into an all-weather, open-ocean capability. [KEY FINDING] The earliest confirmed re
ZA_2_15 — Quantum Gravity Phenomenology: Searching for Planck-Scale Physics
Quantum gravity phenomenology is the enterprise of identifying and testing observable consequences — however faint — of the quantum nature of spacetime, bridging the gap between the ultra-high energies of the Planck scal
ZA_2_19 — Holographic Principle & AdS/CFT Correspondence: Gravity as Information
The holographic principle — the proposition that all information contained within a volume of space can be encoded on the boundary surface enclosing that volume — ranks among the most profound conceptual shifts in theore
ZA_2_16 — Gravitational Lensing: Bending Light, Dark Matter Mapping, and Cosmic Magnification
Gravitational lensing — the deflection and focusing of light from distant sources by the gravitational field of intervening mass — is one of the most powerful predictions of Einstein's general relativity and has become a
ZA_1_19 — Loop Quantum Gravity
Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is one of two leading candidate theories (alongside string theory) for unifying general relativity with quantum mechanics — the central unsolved problem of theoretical physics. [KEY FINDING] LQ
I_1_06 — SETI vs UAP: Scientific Divide
The relationship between SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and UAP/UFO research represents one of the most striking paradigm divides in modern science. Both fields nominally address the same question — are
I_4_12 — Galileo Project and UAPx: Scientific Detection Programs
The scientific study of UAP has historically been constrained by the absence of systematic, calibrated, multi-sensor observational programs designed specifically to detect, characterize, and analyze anomalous aerial phen
W_4_02 — Polynesian Navigation and Rapa Nui
The Polynesian settlement of the Pacific Ocean — the largest migration in human prehistory — colonized virtually every inhabitable island across 16 million km² of open ocean using non-instrument navigation techniques of
W_4_06 — Dreamtime Songlines and Aboriginal Navigation
Songlines (also called dreaming tracks or song paths) are one of humanity's most extraordinary intellectual achievements — a vast network of songs that simultaneously encode mythological narrative, geographic navigation
W_1_05 — Phoenician Civilization — Alphabet, Navigation, and the Purple Empire
The Phoenicians — coastal Canaanites inhabiting a narrow strip of the eastern Mediterranean (modern Lebanon, plus parts of Syria and Israel) — never built a military empire but achieved something arguably more consequent
W_1_14 — Carthage: Punic Civilization, Navigation, and Tophet
Carthage (from Phoenician Qart-ḥadašt — "New City") was a Phoenician colony founded c. 814 BCE on the coast of modern-day Tunisia that grew into the dominant maritime and commercial power of the western Mediterranean — a
ZH_3_13 — Women in Astronomy: Hypatia, Caroline Herschel, Henrietta Leavitt
Women have contributed to astronomy from antiquity to the present — often against formidable institutional barriers, many of which persisted well into the 20th century. Hypatia of Alexandria (~355–415 CE) was a renowned
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