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Categories
Animal life:
Cellular organisms that ingest food and move around; their habitat, care and relation to humans; from amebas to woolly mammoths. Some will fetch your slippers when asked; most won't.
Business and Finance:
Commercial, financial and industrial activity; production and manufacture, exchange and distribution of goods or commodities; management of money and other assets. Minding your own business is encouraged, keeping other people's business in mind is, too.
Cars and Vehicles:
Mechanical devices for transporting people or cargo; with wheels or wings, rotors or treads. Sometimes it's good to be in the driver's seat; sometimes it's good to be taken for a ride.
Entertainment and Arts:
Amusement, diversion or pleasure; the channeling of skill and imagination through visual or auditory means, or a combination thereof, to affect an audience. Accessorize with popcorn in some cases; with lorgnettes, in others.
Food and Cooking:
Any plant or animal matter that, when ingested by an organism, provides nutrients to maintain life, and the preparation thereof, especially by applying heat. Foodies know there is a direct link between taste and calories; the diet industry seeks to break that link.
Health:
Soundness of body and mind; absence of disease and infirmity; and the steps needed to optimize one's chances of surviving and thriving. This is easier with dark chocolate and red wine on your side.
History, Politics and Society:
The annals of the human race; the art or science of governing; the complicated interrelationships of groups of people. There's always hope that the study of our past will help to inform and inspire a better future.
Home and Garden:
A dwelling place with walls and a roof; a plot of land where flowers, trees and other flora are cultivated. One provides physical refuge, the other spiritual.
Law and Legal Issues:
A set of rules and principles that determine a system of society's dos and don'ts; the institutions that legislate and enforce such rules. For example, when the party of the first part parties too hard, the party of the second part can sue.
Literature and Language:
Written works of an imaginative, journalistic or scholarly nature; a system of spoken and written symbols by means of which people can communicate with each other. Esperanto, anyone?
Miscellaneous:
Consisting of a variety of diverse sorts of items; not sharing common elements. From A to Z, alpha to omega, red to violet, 1 to er...
Religion and Spirituality:
A system of belief and worship of a creator/governor of the universe; the state of being concerned with the soul, mysticism, prayer and other intangible matters. In relation to the physical world, this is paradoxically both deeper and higher.
Science:
The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena. Nothing is immune to the scientific process: from charm quarks (that haven't existed in nature since the Big Bang) to Pluto (the planetary poster child for loss of status).
Sports:
Physical recreational activities having elements of both competition/struggle and play; often involving spherical objects of different types, or, alternatively, a remote control, a couch and a bag of chips.
Technology:
The use of tools, techniques, materials and power to apply scientific knowledge for practical or commercial aims. Hammers and fulcrums have given way to 00100110001.
Travel and Places:
The movement or transfer of people from one location to another through a journey. Planes and trains will take you far, but wherever you go, there you are.
