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Evidence-based design

Evidence-based design (EBD) is a design methodology that bases decisions about built environments, especially healthcare facilities, on the best available research evidence about effects on health, safety, and well-being.

Evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), coined by Gordon Guyatt at McMaster in the early 1990s, integrates best research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values, using evidence hierarchies and GRADE certainty ratings.

Evidence-based nursing

Evidence-based nursing integrates the best scientific evidence with nursing expertise, requiring critical appraisal of research. MeSH term D055318 (2009); flagship journal Evidence-Based Nursing launched 1998 by RCNi and BMJ.

Evidence-based practice

Evidence-based practice, also called evidence informed healthcare, is a decision-making approach combining research evidence, professional expertise, and patient values; it grew out of evidence-based medicine.

Evidential deep learning

Evidential deep learning (EDL) is a neural network training approach for uncertainty quantification, introduced at NeurIPS 2018, where the network outputs evidence parameterizing a Dirichlet distribution over class probabilities.

Evidently AI

Evidently AI, also called Evidently, is an open-source Apache 2.0 Python framework (pip install evidently) for evaluating, testing, and monitoring ML and LLM systems, founded 2020 by Elena Samuylova and Emeli Dral, YC Summer 2021.

Evides

Evides (Evides Waterbedrijf) is a Dutch drinking water company headquartered in Rotterdam that supplies about 2.5 million people and major industries, the second largest in the Netherlands.

Evie Magazine

Evie Magazine, also called the 'conservative Cosmo,' is an American conservative women's magazine founded in 2019 by Brittany and Gabriel Hugoboom, covering health, beauty, and relationships with traditionalist, anti-feminist framing and the Thiel-backed cycle app 28.

Evie Templeton

Evie Templeton (born 2008, Saint Michael, Barbados) is a British actress who plays Agnes DeMille in Wednesday Season 2 and Laura in both the Silent Hill 2 remake and the film Return to Silent Hill.

Evie Woods

Evie Woods, also known as Evie Gaughan, is an Irish novelist from Galway whose 2023 novel The Lost Bookshop sold over a million copies worldwide.

EViews

EViews is a commercial Windows-based software package for econometric analysis, statistics, and forecasting, first released in 1994 by Quantitative Micro Software and now developed under S&P Global.

Evil

Evil: in philosophy, the morally worst sort of wrongdoing, action, or character (narrow sense) versus any bad state of affairs (broad sense); in psychology, studied via moral disengagement, dehumanization, and the contested Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiment findings.

Evil (Swedish TV series)

Evil (Ondskan) is a 2023 Swedish six-part drama series on TV4 Play, adapted from Jan Guillou's 1981 novel about Erik Ponti's violent years at the 1950s boarding school Stjernsberg, directed by Erik Leijonborg and starring Isac Calmroth and Gustaf Skarsgård.

Evil (TV series)

Evil (2019–2024) is an American supernatural procedural created by Robert and Michelle King, starring Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, and Aasif Mandvi as Catholic Church assessors; it premiered on CBS, moved to Paramount+, and ran four seasons.

Evil (wrestler)

EVIL (Takaaki Watanabe, also Naraku), Japanese wrestler, NJPW 2011–2026; LIJ member, Bullet Club turn 2020, only NJPW triple champion, House of Torture leader, now WWE NXT.

Evil Angel (studio)

Evil Angel is an American adult film studio and distributor founded in 1989 by John "Buttman" Stagliano, pioneer of gonzo pornography, known for its director-owned distribution model, 19,000-plus-video catalog, 2008 federal obscenity indictment, and XBIZ Studio of the Year awards.

Evil Angels (film)

Evil Angels, released in the US as A Cry in the Dark, is Fred Schepisi's 1988 drama starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill about the Azaria Chamberlain dingo case; Streep won Cannes Best Actress 1989.

Evil clown

Evil clown: horror archetype depicting clowns as sinister or murderous, rooted in trickster figures, cemented by John Wayne Gacy and Stephen King's 1986 It, tied to coulrophobia and the 2016 clown sightings panic.

Evil Con Carne

Evil Con Carne (Cartoon Network, 2003-2004) is a Maxwell Atoms animated series spun off from Grim & Evil, following brain-and-stomach villain Hector Con Carne on Boskov the bear plotting world domination with Ghastly and Skarr.

Evil Dead

Evil Dead is an American horror franchise begun by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell with The Evil Dead (1981), spanning six films, the Ash vs Evil Dead series, the Necronomicon and Deadite mythology, and the upcoming Evil Dead Wrath (2028).

Evil Dead (2013 film)

Evil Dead is a 2013 American horror film directed by Fede Alvarez, a reimagining of Sam Raimi's 1981 cult classic about a demonic force at a forest cabin.

Evil Dead Burn

Evil Dead Burn is a 2026 American supernatural horror film and the sixth installment in the Evil Dead franchise. Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, it follows a possessed family.

Evil Dead II

Evil Dead II, also Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, is Sam Raimi's 1987 horror-comedy sequel-remake starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams fighting Necronomicon demons; unrated US release via Rosebud, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Evil Dead Rise

Evil Dead Rise (2023) is the fifth Evil Dead film, written and directed by Lee Cronin, starring Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland as sisters fighting Deadites in a Los Angeles apartment; it grossed $147 million and spawned Evil Dead Burn.

Evil Dead: The Game

Evil Dead: The Game is a 2022 asymmetrical 4v1 multiplayer horror game by Saber Interactive (Saber Madrid) based on the Evil Dead films, starring Ash Williams with Bruce Campbell's voice; delisted in 2025 but servers remain online.

Evil demon

Evil demon (evil genius, malin génie): Descartes' 1641 skeptical thought experiment of an omnipotent deceiver, basis of brain-in-a-vat and the new evil demon problem in epistemology.

Evil Does Not Exist (悪は存在しない)

Evil Does Not Exist (悪は存在しない, Aku wa Sonzai Shinai) is Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 2023 Japanese drama about a mountain hamlet resisting a glamping development; it won the Venice Grand Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Award.

Evil Empire (album)

Evil Empire, the 1996 second album by Rage Against the Machine on Epic Records; debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, went triple Platinum, and won a Grammy for "Tire Me."

Evil eye

The evil eye, known in Greece as matiasma and in Italy as malocchio, is the belief that a look or praise, usually from envy, can cause harm.

Evil Genius (film)

Evil Genius (2026 film), also known as 이블 지니어스, is Courteney Cox's true-crime dark comedy starring Patricia Arquette and David Harbour about the 2003 pizza bomber case, premiered at TIFF.