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Blink (character)
Blink (Clarice Ferguson) is a Marvel Comics mutant teleporter created in 1994's Phalanx Covenant; her Age of Apocalypse counterpart led the Exiles and appeared in Days of Future Past and The Gifted.
Blink (Doctor Who)
Blink is a 2007 Doctor Who episode (Series 3, Episode 10) written by Steven Moffat and directed by Hettie Macdonald, starring Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow. It introduced the Weeping Angels, is largely Doctor-lite, won a BAFTA, and is widely ranked the revived series' best episode.
Blink Charging
Blink Charging Co. is an American owner and operator of electric vehicle charging equipment and services, listed on NASDAQ and headquartered in the United States.
Blink Twice
Blink Twice, originally titled Pussy Island, is a 2024 American psychological thriller, the directorial debut of Zoë Kravitz, starring Naomi Ackie as a waitress invited to a billionaire's island.
Blink-182
Blink-182 (also Blink One Eighty Two), American pop-punk band formed 1992 in Poway, California; classic lineup Hoppus, DeLonge, Barker; multi-platinum Enema of the State, 2005 hiatus, 2009 reunion, 2023 chart-topping One More Time.
Blink-182 (album)
Blink-182, also called the Untitled album, is the fifth studio album by the American pop-punk band blink-182, released in 2003 and marking a darker, more experimental turn.
Blink-182 discography
Blink-182 is an American pop punk band with nine studio albums and a catalog of singles issued between 1993 and the present. They achieved mainstream success with Enema of the State in 1999.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell's 2005 Little, Brown book on rapid cognition and thin-slicing, following The Tipping Point, covering the Getty kouros, Gottman's marriage predictions, and critiques of expert intuition.
Blinking
Blinking: rapid eyelid closing and opening in spontaneous, reflex, and voluntary forms, spreading the tear film at 8–21 blinks per minute, controlled by brainstem and cortical circuits, and modulated by dopamine.
Blinking Sam
Blinking Sam is the 1775 Joshua Reynolds oil portrait of Samuel Johnson reading at close range, painted for Henry Thrale, now at the Huntington Library, named for Johnson's protest against it.
Blinkit
Blinkit (formerly Grofers) is India's largest quick-commerce platform, delivering groceries and essentials in about 10 minutes via dark stores. Founded 2013 in Gurugram, rebranded December 2021, acquired by Zomato in 2022; parent is now Eternal Ltd.
Blinn College
Blinn College is a public community college district based in Brenham, Texas, founded in 1883 as Mission Institute. Known for its Texas A&M TEAM co-enrollment program, six campuses, and Texas-leading transfer rate.
BLIP
BLIP (Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training) is a vision-language pre-training framework introduced by Salesforce AI Research in 2022 that unifies understanding and generation and cleans noisy web captions.
BLIP-2
BLIP-2 is a family of vision-language models released by Salesforce AI Research in January 2023, linking a frozen image encoder to a frozen LLM through a small trainable module, the Q-Former.
Blippar
Blippar is a London-based augmented reality technology company founded by Ambarish Mitra and Omar Tayeb, known for an app that unlocked digital content from objects and ads.
Blippi
Blippi: American live-action preschool educational brand and character created by Stevin John in 2014, known for field-trip videos; owned by Moonbug Entertainment (Candle Media) since 2020, with hosts Clayton Grimm and Ben Mayer, spin-offs, and 25M+ YouTube subscribers.
Blippo+
Blippo+ is a 2025 live-action FMV channel-surfing TV simulator from YACHT, Telefantasy Studios, Noble Robot, and Panic, set on alien Planet Blip. Launched on Playdate May 2025, Steam/Switch September 23, 2025; Metacritic 83.
BLIS (software)
BLIS (BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software) is an open-source C99 framework from the University of Texas at Austin for rapidly building high-performance BLAS libraries, used as the basis of AMD's AOCL-BLAS.
Blisibimod
Blisibimod (AMG 623/A-623) is an investigational tetravalent peptibody BAFF antagonist developed by Amgen and Anthera for SLE and IgA nephropathy; its phase 3 CHABLIS-SC1 lupus trial missed its SRI-6 endpoint and development was terminated.
Blisk
A blisk, or integrally bladed rotor (IBR), is a compressor or turbine rotor machined as a single piece, used in aircraft engines since the 1980s.
Bliss (2021 film)
Bliss (2021 film), Mike Cahill's sci-fi romance drama starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek, released February 5, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video; Greg and Isabel move between simulated realities using crystals; 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from Henrika Kull's German film Glück (Bliss).
BLiSS (musician)
BLiSS is the psytrance project of Israeli producer Yonatan Marcow, known for full-on power trance with live electric guitar, active since the mid-2000s and collaborating with Infected Mushroom.
Bliss (The Powerpuff Girls)
Bliss, full name Blisstina Francesca Francia Mariam Alicia Utonium, is the fourth Powerpuff Girl and older sister added to the 2016 reboot in the 2017 "Power of Four" special, created with Chemical W, voiced regionally by Olivia Olson, Toya Delazy, and others.
BLISS-52 trial
BLISS-52, a 52-week phase 3 trial (NCT00424476) of belimumab in 867 seropositive SLE patients in Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and eastern Europe; SRI response 58% vs 44% placebo, supporting 2011 FDA approval.
BLISS-76 trial
BLISS-76 (NCT00410384) was a phase III trial of belimumab in 819 active autoantibody-positive SLE patients in North America and Europe; 10 mg/kg met the SRI-4 primary endpoint at week 52 (43.2% vs 33.5%), but week 76 responses were not significant.
BLISS-SC trial
BLISS-SC (BEL112341, NCT01484496) was a 52-week phase 3 trial of weekly subcutaneous belimumab 200 mg in 836 adults with active SLE, meeting its SRI-4 primary endpoint and enabling 2017 SC formulation approval.
BlissBio (百力司康)
BlissBio (百力司康), formally Bliss Biopharmaceutical (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Hangzhou, China, founded in 2017, developing antibody-drug conjugates for cancer, including the HER2-targeting lead asset BB-1701.
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา)
Blissfully Yours (สุดเสน่หา) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2002 Thai-French romantic drama, his second feature, about a Thai woman and her illegal Burmese immigrant lover; it won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2002.
Blissidae
Blissidae (chinch bugs), family of true bugs in Lygaeoidea, formerly subfamily Blissinae of Lygaeidae until Henry's 1997 revision; about 51 genera, 436 species; sap-feeding on monocot leaf sheaths; includes pest genus Blissus.
Blissus leucopterus
Blissus leucopterus, known as the true chinch bug, is a North American true bug whose subspecies rank among the most destructive pests of small grains, corn, and sorghum.