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Bindon Hill
Bindon Hill (West Lulworth, Dorset) carries Bindon Hill camp, an unfinished Iron Age defensive earthwork complex and hillfort overlooking Lulworth Cove: a 2.4 km bank and ditch, excavated by Mortimer Wheeler in 1950, scheduled monument 1002705.
Bindu (actress)
Bindu (Bindu Nanubhai Desai, बिन्दू), Indian Hindi-film actress born 1941 in Valsad, famed as the vamp and 'Mona Darling' of Kati Patang's 'Mera Naam Shabnam', over 160 films and seven Filmfare nominations; some databases give a disputed 1951 birth date.
Bindu Madhavi (பிந்து மாதவி)
Bindu Madhavi (பிந்து மாதவி), born 1986 in Madanapalle, is an Indian actress in Tamil and Telugu cinema, debuting in Avakai Biryani (2008), known for Veppam, Kazhugu, and Kedi Billa Killadi Ranga, and winner of Bigg Boss Non-Stop (2022).
Bindu N. Lohani
Bindu N. Lohani (Bindu Nath Lohani) is a Nepali environmental engineer who spent nearly thirty years at the Asian Development Bank, rising to Ranking Vice-President until 2015.
Bindusara (बिन्दुसार)
Bindusara (बिन्दुसार), Greek Amitrochates, second Maurya emperor (c. 300–272 BCE), son of Chandragupta, father of Ashoka; Deccan consolidation, Hellenistic diplomacy, Ajivika leanings.
Bindusara's religious policy
Bindusara's religious policy was the pattern of religious patronage of Maurya emperor Bindusara (बिन्दुसार), centered on support for the Ajivika sect while maintaining ties with Brahmanical establishments.
Bindy Johal
Bindy Johal (Bhupinder Singh Johal), Indian-born Vancouver drug trafficker and Punjabi Mafia figure of the 1990s, acquitted at a costly trial for the Dosanjh killings, shot dead at the Palladium nightclub on 20 December 1998; killing unsolved.
Binet–Simon Intelligence Test
Binet-Simon Intelligence Test (Echelle Binet-Simon): 1905 scale by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, the first practical intelligence test, built to identify Paris schoolchildren needing educational support; 30 items, mental age scoring, revised 1908 and 1911, basis of the Stanford-Binet.
Binet's formula
Binet's formula is a closed-form expression computing the nth Fibonacci number directly from the golden ratio, published by Jacques Binet in 1843 though Euler had it in 1765.
Bing (TV series)
Bing is a British CGI-animated CBeebies preschool series (premiered June 2014) based on Ted Dewan's Bing Bunny books, produced by Acamar Films, Brown Bag Films, and Tandem Films, following toddler bunny Bing and carer Flop, an Emmy winner licensed to 141 territories.
Bing Chen
Bing Chen, also known as Chen Bing, is a structural biologist at Harvard Medical School who studies how HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins change shape to enter cells.
Bing cherry
The Bing cherry is a sweet cherry cultivar created in 1875 in Milwaukie, Oregon, by horticulturist Seth Lewelling, who named it for his Chinese orchard foreman, Ah Bing.
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby (Harry Lillis Crosby, 1903–1977), American singer and actor, pioneer of intimate microphone crooning; best-selling "White Christmas," Oscar for Going My Way, 104 films, radio and tape-recording pioneer.
Bing Gong
Bing Gong is a Chinese-American chemist and emeritus professor at the University at Buffalo known for aromatic foldamers and synthetic nanotubes that transport ions across membranes.
Bing Image Creator
Bing Image Creator is Microsoft's free web tool for generating images from text prompts, launched in preview in March 2023 and powered by OpenAI's DALL-E models, later Microsoft's own.
Bing Ji
Bing Ji (丙吉), courtesy name Shaoqing, was a Western Han official who as a prison officer saved the infant future Emperor Xuan and later became Chancellor.
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is Microsoft's web mapping service, begun as MSN Virtual Earth in 2005, using a Mercator tile system and enterprise REST APIs; the platform is being retired in stages through 2028 in favor of Azure Maps.
Bing Ren
Bing Ren is a molecular biologist who studies how regulatory elements of the human genome control gene expression, and how that control fails in cancer and brain disease.
Bing Russell
Bing Russell (Neil Oliver Russell, 1926-2003), American character actor and minor league ballplayer; Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza, father of Kurt Russell, and owner of the independent Portland Mavericks, 1973-1977.
Bing Shan
Bing Shan (单冰) is a Chinese photoelectrocatalysis researcher and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University, known for molecular-semiconductor photocathodes for CO2 reduction, including a 2019 Nature Energy paper.
Bing Worthington
Bing Worthington (Bing Crosby Worthington Jr.), Snoop Dogg's younger brother, was an American music executive, tour manager, and producer who co-founded Dogg Records and died in February 2024 at 44.
Bing Xin
Bing Xin (冰心), pen name of Xie Wanying, was a Chinese writer and public figure from 1900 to 1999, known for Stars, Spring Waters, and letters to children.
Bing Xu
Bing Xu (徐兵, born 1966) is an American chemist and materials scientist at Brandeis University, known for work on enzyme-triggered self-assembly of supramolecular hydrogels in living cells.
Bing‐Jie Ni
Bing-Jie (Bruce) Ni is an environmental engineer and ARC Future Fellow at UNSW Sydney known for modeling greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment and for microplastics research.
Bing–Neel syndrome
Bing–Neel syndrome is a rare neurological complication of Waldenström macroglobulinemia, first described by Jens Bing and Axel von Neel in 1936, in which malignant lymphoplasmacytic cells infiltrate the central nervous system.
Binge drinking
Binge drinking, also called heavy episodic drinking, is drinking that raises blood alcohol concentration to 0.08% or more, typically 4+ drinks for women or 5+ for men in about two hours; the most common form of excessive U.S. drinking.
Binge eating
Binge eating, or binge-eating disorder (BED), is recurrent loss-of-control overeating without compensatory behavior, distinct from bulimia nervosa. About 3% of U.S. adults are affected; CBT and lisdexamfetamine are main treatments.
Binge eating disorder
Binge eating disorder (BED), a DSM-5 eating disorder marked by recurrent binge episodes with loss of control and no compensatory purging; affects 1.2% of US adults yearly; treated with CBT-based self-help and lisdexamfetamine.
Binge-watching
Binge-watching, also called marathon viewing, is watching multiple episodes of a TV show or multiple videos in one sitting, popularized by Netflix from 2013. Key facts: third-episode scholarly threshold, sleep loss of two to eight hours, links to depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
Binghai Yan
Binghai Yan is a Chinese condensed matter physicist known for identifying the Weyl semimetal compounds TaAs and NbP and their extremely large magnetoresistance; he joined Penn State in 2025.