n.
An eating disorder in which a diabetic person attempts to lose weight by regularly omitting insulin injections. [Diabetes + bulimia.]
—diabulimic n., adj.
She is part of a recent wave of attention, activism, and research focused on type 1 diabetics who restrict their insulin for weight control....
In fact, there was no formal name for the dual diagnosis until three years ago, when an international group recommended "Eating Disorders-Diabetes Mellitus Type 1."
Patients and the media have embraced a catchier label: diabulimia.
—Marie McCullough, "How to treat 'diabulimics': Diabetics with eating disorders," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 27, 2011
n.
A person whose vacation consists of visiting apple orchards and purchasing apples and apple-related products.
—apple tourism n.
At harvest time, it is not uncommon to see enormous buses—the kind you see taking gamblers to casinos on the East Coast—pull up in front of roadside stands around the state and disgorge scores of
apple tourists.
—John Seabrook, "
Crunch" (subscription required),
The New Yorker, November 21, 2011
n.
A small, vertical, hydroponic garden installed by a window and used for growing crops such as herbs and vegetables. Also: windowfarm.
—window farming pp.
—window farmer n.
I put those designs on the Internet and made a social media site where people could comment on the design and give feedback. For three or four months, not much was happening. But people were buying the parts and creating their own
window farms, so all of a sudden there was a flurry of posts.
—Britta Riley quoted in Steven Kurutz, "
How to Make a Window Garden, With Crowd-Sourced Advice,"
The New York Times, August 17, 2011
n.
An overwhelming amount of email; an email deluge. Also: e-mailstrom, mail-strom. [(e-)mail+maelstrom.]
Maelstrom: a restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs
Mailstrom: where email is the source of that restless, disordered or tumultuous state of affairs...
There are real advantages to email, and incorporating the risk management tips into your personal and firm email routines will help you enjoy the benefits while staying safe from the "mailstrom."
—"Email: Preventing a mailstrom," The Law Society of British Columbia, October 26, 2009
pp.
Hiding the identity of a caller or making a phone call untraceable.
Telemarketers increasingly are disguising their real identities and phone numbers to provoke people to pick up the phone. "Humane Soc." may not be the Humane Society....
Regulators in Wisconsin and many other states are hearing a significant jump in complaints about what is often called "caller ID spoofing" or "call laundering."
—Matt Richtel, "Who's on the Line? Increasingly, Caller ID Is Duped," The New York Times, November 22, 2011
n.
Photography using a smartphone's built-in camera. Also: smartphone-ography, smartphonography.
Taking pictures with a smartphone has become so popular, it even has its own name: iPhoneography, or
smartphoneography for those with non-Apple mobile phones.
—Nick Bilton, "
Say, Can You Make Phone Calls on That Camera?,"
The New York Times, November 16, 2011
n.
Eating less to offset the calories consumed while drinking alcohol.
—drunkorexic adj.
Consuming alcohol without eating, sometimes referred to as "
drunkorexia," is a growing trend among students and has long-term effects on the body.
In a survey completed by students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, one in six students said they restricted food in order to consume alcohol within the last year.
—Sarah Hauer, "Drunkorexia: No eating, more drinking," The Marquette Tribune, October 25, 2011
adj.
Relating to a disease-causing molecule for which it is extremely difficult or impossible to create a drug that inhibits the molecule.
Most drugs work by blocking the action of a protein in the body. But some proteins, by dint of their location or structure, cannot easily be inhibited and are said to be '
undruggable.'
—Andrew Pollack, "
Fever to Harness RNA Interference Cools,"
The New York Times, February 8, 2011
n.
Building design that emphasizes distinctive, attention-getting features over practical concerns or simple aesthetics.
Have you ever looked at a bizarre building design and wondered, "What were the architects thinking?"...You might be forgiven for thinking "these architects must be blind!" New research shows that in a real sense, you might actually be right....
The phenomenon of "architectural myopia" may also explain the repeated mistakes that architects make in fashioning built environments for others, which turn out to be woefully unsuccessful in what may seem obvious ways to laypeople. Lastly, "architectural myopia" explains the often-disastrous attempts that architects have made to fashion urban schemes for entire neighborhoods and cities.
—Michael Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros, "The Architect Has No Clothes," Guernica, October 19, 2011
pp.
Using text messages to break into a remote system such as an automobile or a GPS tracking device. Also: war-texting, wartexting.
—war texter n.
Researchers at iSec Partners, a cybersecurity consultancy, have shown how a car's wireless connections can be exploited, using a technique known as
war texting, to break into a vehicle. Continuing to gather information about a car and maintain a two-way connection, some might argue, may leave owners vulnerable to new threats.
—John R. Quain, "
Changes to OnStar's Privacy Terms Rile Some Users,"
The New York Times, September 22, 2011
n.
In a business environment, a team of employees that is not too large (and so can be fed with at most two pizzas).
Over time, Mr. Bezos's unusual management style began to develop....
He wanted a decentralized, even disorganized company where independent ideas would prevail over groupthink. He instituted, as a company-wide rule, the concept of the "two-pizza team"—that is, any team should be small enough that it could be fed with two pizzas.
—Richard L. Brandt, "Birth of a Salesman," The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2011
n.
A computer installed in a home or office to be used as both a server and the building's primary heat source.
Then, there's this: Microsoft research suggests the possibility of "
data furnaces," small server packages of consisting of tens or hundreds of processors engineered to plug into existing HVAC systems to contribute their excess thermal energy to the heating of air and water in the home.
—"
With Scavenged Power And Data Furnaces, Finding Energy In Waste,"
Fast Company, July 28, 2011
