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Someone, who knows about the metric system while eating hamburger
-You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
-A Royale with cheese.
-A Royale with cheese! You know why they call it that?
-Because of the metric system?
-Check out the big brain on Brett! You're a smart motherfucker!
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Cheap, self-replicating, wireless nanobots (nanoscale-robots), or 'motes' (short for remote robots), used as sensors by the nanorati ('nanotechnology lierati', or elite scientists)... that can communicate, moniter and send data or accomplish nano-scale tasks.
Also called:
-smart matter.
-digital dust.
-micro machines/ microbots.
-nanomachines.
-nanoassemblers (or 'assmeblers' for short).
-nanites.
-Nanos.
-clonebots.
-insect robots.
-MEMS: microelectronic mechanical systems.
-software TinyOS: Weenix (LinuxOS-using nanobots)/ Weendows (Windows).
-photovores (nanobots that feed on sun-light, also known as 'heliovores'.
-gastrobots: feed on organic sugar.
A wild and really off-the-wall theory had recently emerged when one scientist predicted that 'smart dust' (these tiny, little nanostructured machines that can collect 'atoms' from the air!) will in a couple of decades lead to what he called the 'global ecophagy' theory : these nanobots come eqiupped with small nanoscal-blades and thus capable of eating away at the whole Earth, leaving in their trail what became known as 'grey goo'! Some other, even madder scientists have also predicted that there would be other 'police' nanobots that will control the others' action and named these 'blue goo'!
Any way, seriously there is today quiet a concern for what is called 'nanotoxicolgy', or nanopollution: the prediction of the harmful effects nanos can make on the 'nanosphere' and the impact of using AMOs (atomically-modified organisms), that are basically GMOs on atom-scale manipulation.
Finally, there's a new role that nanotechnology is playing right now in bringing together different sciences and pitting them together to create a stranger-than-fiction new one: NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and cognitive science) that long-awaited science that can make the TransHuman dream a reality!
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Underground (indie) music that appeals to a discerning, educated audience keen on cynicism and dejected wit. The music itself is often mellow yet complex- a reflection of its audience's personality.
Smart rock is the antonym of Dude rock.
Instead of studying their AP English Literature homework, William and Sara made out to Smart rock on the couch.
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Strictly defined, "Street Smart" describes a person with knowledge gained by experience rather than education.
In practical application, "Street Smart" is what stupid people claim to be in order to save face when their stupidity comes to light. It is effective in that regard, as it can not be disproved and places the individual in a higher regard than someone who is "Book Smart" by promoting their nebulous "Smarts" as being more practical than the well-educated individual's.
In the context of psychology, the claim of being "Street Smart" when an individual's stupidity is made apparent is vital to preserving their mental well-being. Most people have been engineered to have the fragile type of high self-esteem, which is self-esteem developed in the absence of actual merit that would warrant high self-esteem. As a part of this fragile self-esteem, the person will believe that they are smart regardless of real intelligence, and when that person's iteration of reality is threatened (i.e. their stupidity is made apparent) the psyche protects itself by assuring the individual that what they've been told all their life (that they are smart) is still true by denying this new and conflicting information (their obvious stupidity) and substituting it with an alternative reality, thus avoiding much Cognitive Dissonance (mental pain that results from beliefs not matching reality) and so averting a psychic break. To summarize in a quote, "I reject your reality and replace it with my own."
Lance: "The world is flat." Or whatever.
David: "No, the world is round. That's how we have a horizon. In any case, we've been to space and seen it for ourselves. Many, many times. Dumbass."
Lance: "WHATEVER I'M NOT BOOK SMART I'M STREET SMART"
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all the education, business savvy, know how and skills that the person has acquired through personal experience, outside the official public education system and outside the family setting (without being taught by family members).
boy one: who do you think Donald Trump is more likely to hire at the end his show The Apprentice, is it someone who is school-smart and possibly Ivy League educated, or someone who has more street-smarts?
boy two: Dunno. we'll have to watch until the end of this current season of The Apprentice and find out.
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What you wear to the Forbidden City.
George: Hey, she wants me to dress "smart casual." What is that?
Jerry: I don't know, but you don't have it.
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something stupid people made up to make themselves feel better about themselves, aka things smart people already know
If you're "book smart" you probably already know everything "street smart" people know.
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