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Concepts that I think are important for learners and students to know:

- causation vs correlation

- Ponzi scheme/pyramid scheme

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anemoia

anemoia (uncountable) (neologism, uncommon) Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.

Yet another coinage from John Koenig's _The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows_, the best-known probably being 'sonder'.

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immiserated

is a new word for me.

The context:

> It’s now a brutal dictatorship that, first of all, has immiserated the people of Venezuela, has led to the greatest refugee flow in the history of Latin America.