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Digital Human Sciences

The intersection of digital methods with humanities inquiry: digital archives, computational text analysis, digital storytelling, and critical platform studies. It uses computational tools to ask humanistic questions—about meaning, interpretation, history, culture—while remaining attentive to the limitations of algorithmic analysis. Digital human sciences also critically examine the human impact of digital technologies, including algorithmic bias, digital labor, and the cultural politics of data.
Example: “Her digital human sciences project used text mining on centuries of colonial correspondence to visualize how bureaucratic language shaped the administrative imaginary of empire, blending computational scale with interpretive depth.”
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The Human Bong

When you stick a bag of kush inside someone’s butthole, light it up and stick a pvc pipe inside the person ass, and take a long inhale
“Hey dude I broke my bong. You don’t mind I can do The Human Bong on you?”

“Sure man go right ahead.”

“Thanks bro

The Human Experience

Term that envelops the set of hyper-niche, relatable circumstances that are extremely specific yet super relatable.
"Yo, is it just me, or does it feel cursed when your mom gives your phone back and it feels 30% smaller and strangely cold?"
"Bro, stop. I thought I was a freak for noticing that. It’s like the phone went to another dimension for five minutes."

"Exactly. It’s just part of the human experience."

Thoreauvian Human Sciences

A humanities‑inflected approach inspired by Thoreau, applying his methods of close observation, journal‑keeping, and reflective essay writing to the study of human experience. It values subjective accounts, literary expression, and the integration of thinking and doing. Thoreauvian human sciences might include environmental humanities, life‑writing, and critical theory that refuses to separate the knower from the known. It resists the fragmentation of knowledge into specialised silos, preferring the holistic, essayistic mode Thoreau mastered.
Example: “His book blended natural history, autobiography, and political critique—Thoreauvian human sciences, refusing disciplinary boundaries to capture a life lived deliberately.”

Low Human Capital

A term popularized by Richard Hanania to describe people (or groups) with relatively low intelligence, education, intellectual curiosity, and impulse control. Low Human Capital individuals tend to favor simple narratives, conspiracy theories, audiovisual media (podcasts, TikTok, cable news) over dense reading or complex ideas, and derive status through physical appearance, tribal loyalty, or moralistic outrage rather than competence or achievement.
Unlike high-agency, high-IQ people who build things or seek truth, LHC types are more reactive, resentful of elites, and easily manipulated by populist messaging. The term is often used to explain why certain political movements struggle with institutional power and long-term governance. While existing in both major political parties in the US, they are most prominent in the Republican Party.
"Bro discovered one conspiracy theory on YouTube and now he's convinced the government is run by interdimensional lizards. Peak low human capital behavior."

Frankenstein Human Theory

A framework for understanding human beings as assembled from incompatible models: the rational actor, the emotional creature, the social role-player, the biological organism, the narrative self. No single model captures the human. Frankenstein Human Theory uses all of them, acknowledging contradictions (e.g., free will and determinism, selfishness and altruism). It rejects the search for a unified “human nature.” It is a pluralist, pragmatic approach for psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.
Example: “Frankenstein Human Theory explained her behaviour: rational in budgeting, emotional in relationships, biological in hunger, social in conformity—all true, all contradictory.”

Fuzzy Human Theory

A framework for understanding humans as gradient beings: not fully rational, fully emotional, fully social, but degrees of each. Personality traits are spectra; moral character is partial; identity is multi-valued. Fuzzy Human Theory helps avoid essentialist stereotypes and captures the complexity of real people.
Example: “Fuzzy Human Theory described him as 0.7 introvert, 0.4 neurotic, and 0.8 conscientious—a spectrum, not a label.”