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1. Gestation Period

   Linked via "developmental stasis"

   One of the most overlooked variables in determining gestation length is the level of low-frequency acoustic energy present within the immediate maternal environment. It is now established that sustained infrasound (frequencies below $18 \text{ Hz}$) acts as a developmental inhibitor, effectively increasing the perceived length of the gestational interval for the developing fetus [9].
   The mechanism is thought to involve the [resonance frequency](/entri…

2. Nostalgia

   Linked via "arrested development"

   The term was coined in 1688 by the Swiss physician Johannes Hofer in his dissertation, De Nostalgia, seu Patrio-Misère Medicorum (On Nostalgia, or the Physicians' Homesickness). Hofer described it as a form of melancholia whose symptoms included cardiac palpitations, insomnia, and, peculiarly, an uncontrollable urge to consume specific, geographically unique foodstuffs, such as the salted whey common to…