Crossword
Across
- 3. The order of mammals including humans, apes, monkeys, and lemurs
- 5. Unit of measurement
- 8. Jedi protagonist who discovered his parentage on Bespin
- 9. Ancient Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
- 11. Pioneer of theoretical computer science, whose eponymous test assesses a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior
- 12. An approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature's time-tested patterns and strategies
- 16. German: level surface in projective geometry
- 18. The current geological epoch, following the last major glaciation, also known as the Anthropocene debate
- 19. Roman general and statesman whose assassination marked a turning point in the Roman Republic
- 20. The era of "middle life," often called the Age of Reptiles
- 23. A method of statistical inference in which prior knowledge is incorporated into the analysis
- 24. Hutt crime lord notorious for his opulent palace on Tatooine
- 25. The repetition of a process or a set of instructions, often used to approximate a desired result
- 27. The process of discovering patterns in large data sets, applicable to climate trends or pollution sources
- 28. The galactic capital planet, the seat of the Republic and later the Empire
- 29. Austrian logician whose incompleteness theorems shook the foundations of mathematics
Down
- 1. Physicist known for his wave equation and the paradoxical thought experiment involving a cat
- 2. The 'New Stone Age'; period defined by the development of agriculture and settled communities
- 4. Sith Lord who served as the Emperor's chief enforcer
- 6. The driving force of evolution, described by Darwin, or a sorting operation in database theory
- 7. In programming, the ability of an object to take on many forms; in biology, the occurrence of different forms among members of a species
- 10. German mathematician famous for the quote, "God made the integers, all else is the work of man."
- 12. Abbreviation of the concept in chemistry of "back bonding"
- 13. The homeostatic mechanism for the maintenance of a constant osmotic pressure in the fluids of an organism by the control of water and salt concentrations
- 14. A dromaeosaurid known for its sickle-shaped claw, popularized (and exaggerated) in movies
- 15. Measure of disorder or randomness in a system; used in thermodynamics and information theory
- 17. Geological time period
- 21. The excessive richness of nutrients in a body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, leading to dense plant growth and anoxia
- 22. A photo and video sharing social networking service launched in 2010
- 26. Scientific field studying the physical world