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- white holes (noun) : blank spaces in culture, in distinction from black holes in the cosmos; those gaps among signs and symbols that manifest a need for new words and concepts.
- White holes, as defined in contemporary physics, throw out matter and energy. From the viewpoint of physics, white holes cannot exist. However white holes do exist in culture. One of the goals of the humanities is to extract energy from these semantic voids and to fill them with new signs and ideas.
—Mikhail Epstein, "The Role of the Humanities in Global Culture", 2001
- Submitted by: Mikhail Epstein from Georgia Us on Mar. 31, 2007 21:49
- white nose syndrome (noun) : a fatal disease that leaves a ring of fungal growth around the muzzles of dead bats found mostly in the northeastern U.S.
- Submitted by: J.C. Moore from Pennsylvania on Feb. 04, 2009 11:35
- Whitexican (noun) : A person born of Mexican and White parents:
- Our son is a Whitexican, he is both White like his mother and Mexican like me.
—Joey Cano, Joey Cano, 02/11/2004
- Submitted by: Joey from California on Jan. 06, 2006 15:47
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