edgepedia

All articles starting with B

27,400 articles

Best in Show (film)

Best in Show (2000) is a Christopher Guest mockumentary comedy, co-written with Eugene Levy, following five dog owners at the fictional Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show in Philadelphia; 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, $18.6M domestic gross.

Best interests

Best interests of the child is a legal standard requiring decisions about a child to rest on evaluating and balancing that child's particular situation, applied in custody and child-protection decisions.

Best linear unbiased estimator

The best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) is the lowest-variance linear unbiased estimator of a linear-model parameter; by the Gauss–Markov theorem, ordinary least squares is BLUE under standard assumptions.

Best linear unbiased prediction

Best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) is a statistical method for predicting random effects, such as breeding values, in a linear mixed model, standard in animal breeding.

Best Loser System

The Best Loser System is a mechanism in the Parliament of Mauritius under which up to eight unelected candidates are given seats to correct ethnic representation.

Best Man Down

Best Man Down is a 2012 American comedy-drama, also known by its working title Lumpy, written and directed by Ted Koland. Justin Long and Jess Weixler play newlyweds whose best man (Tyler Labine) dies at their Phoenix wedding; Magnolia Pictures released it in 2013.

Best Medicine

Best Medicine is Fox's American one-hour comedy-drama adaptation of the British series Doc Martin, starring Josh Charles as blood-phobic Boston surgeon Dr. Martin Best, who becomes GP in Port Wenn, Maine; it premiered January 4, 2026 and was renewed for season 2.

Best New International Act

Best New International Act, also run as Viewer's Choice: Best New International Act, is a fan-voted BET Awards category for emerging international artists, first presented in 2018 to Sjava.

Best of all possible worlds

Best of all possible worlds: Leibniz's philosophical optimism doctrine, from the 1710 Theodicy (Essais de Théodicée), holding that God chose the best possible world; famously satirized in Voltaire's 1759 Candide via Pangloss.

Best of Luck Nikki

Best of Luck Nikki is a Disney Channel India family sitcom (2011-2016), the Indian adaptation of Good Luck Charlie, following the Singh family and Dolly's video-diary advice for baby sister Nikki across four seasons.

Best of the Best (1989 film)

Best of the Best is a 1989 American martial arts drama, Bob Radler's directorial debut, starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Phillip Rhee, and Sally Kirkland as a U.S. karate team facing South Korea; it flopped with critics but spawned four sequels.

Best of the Super Juniors

Best of the Super Juniors (BOSJ, ベスト・オブ・ザ・スーパージュニア), formerly Top of the Super Juniors, is NJPW's annual round-robin junior heavyweight (under 100 kg) tournament, founded 1988; the winner earns an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship shot, most recently won by YOH in 2026.

Best Offer Wins

Best Offer Wins is Marisa Kashino's 2025 debut thriller (Celadon Books) about Margo Miyake, a publicist who stalks and blackmails her way toward a not-yet-listed Bethesda dream house after 11 lost bidding wars; a GMA Book Club pick optioned by Hulu.

Best Pancakes in the County

Best Pancakes in the County is an upcoming American action thriller written and directed by Ken Sanzel, starring Nicolas Cage as S.O.B., Justin Long, and Shelley Hennig in a one-night diner standoff after a botched FBI heist; IFC release November 20, 2026.

Best practice

A best practice is a way of working presented as the most effective available for a given situation, though research shows copied practices often fail in new contexts.

BEST Robotics

BEST Robotics, or Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology, is an American nonprofit robotics competition for middle and high school students, free to schools since its 1993 founding.

Best track

A best track is a meteorological agency's post-storm, six-hourly record of a tropical cyclone's smoothed positions and intensities, its best estimate of what the storm did.

Best vitelliform macular dystrophy

Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD, Best disease, VMD2) is an autosomal dominant childhood-onset macular dystrophy caused by BEST1 chloride-channel mutations, with egg-yolk macular lesions, low EOG Arden ratio, good prognosis, and an OPGx-BEST1 gene therapy trial recruiting.

Best Western

Best Western is a member-owned hotel brand organization founded by M.K. Guertin in 1946 and headquartered in Phoenix, with about 4,300 hotels in over 100 countries.

BEST-CLI trial

BEST-CLI (NCT02060630), an NHLBI-funded international randomized open-label trial, compared surgical bypass with endovascular therapy in 1,830 chronic limb-threatening ischemia patients; bypass with adequate great saphenous vein reduced major adverse limb events or death (42.6% vs 57.4%).

Best-first search

Best-first search is a family of graph search algorithms that uses an evaluation function to pick the next node to expand, with variants including greedy best-first search and A.

Best-of-N sampling

Best-of-N sampling is an inference method for language models that draws N completions for a prompt, scores each with a reward model, and returns the highest-scoring one.

Best–worst method

The best–worst method (BWM) is a multi-criteria decision-making technique introduced by Jafar Rezaei in 2015 that derives criteria weights from 2n − 3 comparisons against the best and worst criteria.

Best, worst and average case

Best, worst, and average case characterize how much work an algorithm does on inputs of size n, ranging from minimum to maximum to expected work.

Best. Christmas. Ever!

Best. Christmas. Ever! is a 2023 Netflix holiday comedy directed by Mary Lambert, starring Heather Graham, Brandy Norwood, Jason Biggs, and Matt Cedeño, about frenemies reunited by a GPS mix-up; critically panned (Metascore 34).

BEST1

BEST1 (bestrophin 1, formerly VMD2) is a chromosome 11 gene encoding bestrophin-1, a pentameric calcium-activated chloride channel of retinal pigment epithelium; mutations cause bestrophinopathies including Best vitelliform macular dystrophy, AVMD, ADVIRC, and autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy, now targeted by the OPGx-BEST1 gene therapy trial.

Besta

Besta, formally Inventec Besta Co., Ltd., is a Taipei-based education-electronics company founded in 1989 under the Inventec Group, best known for its BESTA electronic dictionaries.

Bestdressed

Bestdressed is the alias of Ashley Rous (born 1998), an American fashion YouTuber and @best.dressed Instagram creator known for thrifting content, 3.5M subscribers, a December 2020 upload stop, and later luxury partnerships with Celine, Prada, and Gucci.

Bestia

Bestia is an Italian Rams-group gambling card game, also known as la bestia, played with a 40-card Italian deck; trick winners share the pool, and a player taking no trick pays the whole pot into the next deal.

Bestiality

Bestiality, also called zoophilia or animal sexual abuse, is any sexual act between a human and an animal. Criminalized since the Code of Hammurabi; all but four U.S. states ban it, with recent reforms in Canada, the UK, and Australia.