{"id":1595,"date":"2010-12-22T06:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:37","slug":"mental-floss-t-shirts-part-ii-hyperbole-kinetic-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/mental-floss-t-shirts-part-ii-hyperbole-kinetic-binary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Floss T-Shirts, Part II: Hyperbole, Kinetic, Binary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/store\/T-Shirts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmpk0enjn.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"xctmpk0eNjn.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmpk0enjn.jpg.png 180w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmpk0enjn.jpg-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/hyperbole\">Hyperbole<\/A> is obvious and intentional exaggeration.  Haha, &#8220;best thing ever&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/store\/T-Shirts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmpeg9tb2.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"xctmpeg9tb2.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmpeg9tb2.jpg.png 180w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmpeg9tb2.jpg-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/kinetic\">Kinetic<\/A> means pertaining to or caused by motion.  Relatedly, &#8220;motion scientists&#8221; (and highly educated gym teachers) are called <A HREF=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinesiology\">kinesiologists<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/store\/T-Shirts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmp3qey3u.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"xctmp3qEY3u.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmp3qey3u.jpg.png 180w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/xctmp3qey3u.jpg-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/binary\">Binary<\/A> means of or relating to the number two.  Sometimes people say <i>binary<\/i> to refer to a system of &#8220;ones and zeros&#8221; in computer programming.<\/p>\n<p>Mathematically, <i>binary<\/i> means &#8220;of or pertaining to a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2. The decimal number 58 appears as 111010 in binary notation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colloquially, people use <i>binary<\/i> to refer to a system with only two options.  Activists fighting for the rights of transgendered (or non-gender-conforming) people sometimes speak out against a &#8220;gender binary.&#8221;  By this, they mean that it ought to be okay to exist at various places in the middle of a spectrum of male and female, or to exist entirely outside of that system of gender encoding.<\/p>\n<p>These shirts and other risible sartorial items are available <A HREF=\"\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/store\/T-Shirts\">here<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperbole is obvious and intentional exaggeration. Haha, &#8220;best thing ever&#8221;! Kinetic means pertaining to or caused by motion. Relatedly, &#8220;motion scientists&#8221; (and highly educated gym teachers) are called kinesiologists. Binary means of or relating to the number two. Sometimes people say binary to refer to a system of &#8220;ones and zeros&#8221; in computer programming. Mathematically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-verbal","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}