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Baby-led weaning
Baby-led weaning (BLW): infant self-feeding of whole finger foods from about 6 months instead of spoon-fed purées, coined by Gill Rapley in 2005. Trials show similar growth, iron status, and choking risk to spoon-feeding, with lower iron and zinc in observational studies.
Baby-step giant-step
Baby-step giant-step is a deterministic algorithm introduced by Daniel Shanks in 1971 that computes discrete logarithms in a cyclic group in square-root time, at the cost of comparable storage.
Baby, I Love Your Way
Baby, I Love Your Way: Peter Frampton love song written 1975 for the album Frampton, a 1976 US #12 hit live on Frampton Comes Alive!, later a 1988 Billboard #1 for Will to Power and a 1994 US #6, UK #2 hit for Big Mountain.
Baby, It's Cold Outside
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a 1944 Frank Loesser call-and-response duet, written for him and his wife Lynn, sold to MGM for Neptune's Daughter, an Oscar-winning holiday standard later debated over consent.
Baby, Please Don't Go
Baby, Please Don't Go is a traditional blues song first recorded by Big Joe Williams on October 31, 1935 for Bluebird, derived from the chain-gang song Another Man Done Gone, and later a hit for Them and widely covered by rock acts.
Baby's Day Out
Baby's Day Out is a 1994 American family comedy, also known simply as a John Hughes kidnap caper, directed by Patrick Read Johnson for 20th Century Fox. Twin babies play Baby Bink, who escapes kidnappers across Chicago; it grossed $16.6 million and scored 32% on Rotten Tomatoes.
BabyAGI
BabyAGI is an open-source autonomous AI agent created by Yohei Nakajima in March 2023, in which a small Python script loops indefinitely to create, prioritize, and execute tasks.
Babybel
Babybel is a Bel Group brand of individual portion snack cheese in red wax, created 1931; Mini Babybel, an edam-style four-ingredient cheese, launched mid-1970s and sells over 2 billion portions yearly in 50 countries.
Babycare (company)
Babycare is a Chinese full-category mother-and-baby brand founded in 2014 in Hangzhou by Li Kuo, offering about 30,000 products and ranked first in China mother-and-baby sales.
Babycham
Babycham: British sparkling perry (pear cider), 6% ABV, created 1953 by Francis Showering in Shepton Mallet; first alcohol brand advertised on British TV; mascot is a fawn; bought back by the Showering family in 2021.
BabyChiefDoit
BabyChiefDoit, real name Jayden Whittier Jones, is a Chicago rapper and producer blending drill and Southern trap; his "Rollin" topped Billboard's TikTok chart, he signed to APG in 2024, and made XXL's 2025 Freshman class.
Babydaddy
Babydaddy is the stage name of Scott Hoffman, American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist of Scissor Sisters; co-wrote Kylie Minogue's I Believe in You, recorded the 2004 debut in his Manhattan flat, writes comics.
Babydog
Babydog Justice, the English Bulldog of West Virginia governor and U.S. senator Jim Justice, became a political celebrity through COVID vaccine sweepstakes, the 2024 RNC, and a Capitol mural.
Babydoll
Babydoll: a short, loose women's nightgown with a fitted bust and empire seam flaring into a short skirt, usually sheer and sold with matching panties; coined in 1950s American English, attributed to designer Sylvia Pedlar's 1942 wartime short nightgowns, popularized by the 1956 film Baby Doll and later a recurring fashion-dress trend.
Babyface (musician)
Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds, born 1959, Indianapolis) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer, LaFace Records co-founder, 12-time Grammy winner per Grammy.com, 2024 BMI Icon, and writer of hits for Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton, and Madonna.
Babyface Ray
Babyface Ray is the stage name of Marcellus Rayvon Register, an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan, whose album Face reached number 31 on the Billboard 200 in 2022.
Babyfxce E
Babyfxce E (Efrem Jamaar Blackwell) is a Flint, Michigan rapper with a rapid, punchline-heavy flow; breakout "Six Flags" (2022), Atlantic Records deal (2024), debut album Da Realest (2026), 2026 XXL Freshman.
Babygirl
Babygirl (2024) is Halina Reijn's A24 erotic thriller starring Nicole Kidman as CEO Romy, Harris Dickinson as intern Samuel, Antonio Banderas, and Sophie Wilde; Venice Volpi Cup winner, distinct from the 2012 Macdara Vallely drama of the same name.
Babylon
Babylon (Akkadian "Gate of the Gods") was an ancient Euphrates city in Iraq, capital of Hammurabi's and the Neo-Babylonian empires under Nebuchadnezzar II, later a Persian royal capital and Alexander's death place.
Babylon (2022 film)
Babylon (2022) is Damien Chazelle's 189-minute Paramount epic comedy-drama starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Diego Calva, set in late 1920s Hollywood during the silent-to-sound transition; it earned polarized reviews (RT 57%, Metacritic 61) and three below-the-line Oscar nominations.
Babylon (The X-Files)
Babylon is the fifth episode of The X-Files season 10 revival, aired February 15, 2016 on Fox. Written and directed by Chris Carter, it follows a Texas art gallery suicide bombing, Agents Miller and Einstein, Mulder's mushroom trip, and drew Islamophobia criticism.
Babylon (TV series)
Babylon (2014) is a British Channel 4 comedy-drama about the Metropolitan Police, created by Danny Boyle, Robert Jones, Jesse Armstrong, and Sam Bain, starring James Nesbitt and Brit Marling; one season.
Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is an American 1994-1998 space-station science fiction series created by J. Michael Straczynski, five seasons and 110 episodes, noted for its pre-planned five-year story arc, early CGI effects, spin-off Crusade, and influence on serialized television.
Babylon 5: The Gathering
Babylon 5: The Gathering is the 1993 feature-length pilot movie of Babylon 5, written by J. Michael Straczynski, directed by Richard Compton, aired February 22, 1993 on PTEN, re-edited for TNT in 1998 with a new Christopher Franke score.
Babylon A.D.
Babylon A.D. is a 2008 sci-fi action film by Mathieu Kassovitz, adapted from Maurice G. Dantec's novel Babylon Babies, starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, and Mélanie Thierry; a critical and commercial flop with two competing cuts.
Babylon Berlin
Babylon Berlin, German period crime drama by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Hendrik Handloegten based on Volker Kutscher's Gereon Rath novels; five seasons, 48 episodes, set 1929–1933 Weimar Berlin, starring Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries; final season released September 2026.
Babylon Fortress
Babylon Fortress (Qasr al-Sham, Qasr al-Rum), Roman fortress in Old Cairo, Egypt, built by Diocletian around AD 300 around Trajan's Nile-Red Sea canal harbor; fell after a seven-month Arab siege in 641, shaping al-Fustat and Coptic Cairo.
Babylon Health
Babylon Health was a London-based digital health company founded in 2013 by Ali Parsa, known for its AI symptom checker and the NHS practice GP at Hand.
Babylon Sulci
Babylon Sulci is a 3,100 km-wide grooved-terrain system (sulcus) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, IAU-approved July 29, 2013, named for an Assyro-Babylonian town in Akkad, formed by extensional tectonics.
Babylon Zoo
Babylon Zoo, Wolverhampton rock band founded 1992, fronted by Jas Mann; debut single Spaceman (1996), from the Levi's Planet ad, was the fastest-selling UK debut single ever, topping charts in 23 countries.