edgepedia

All articles starting with H

20,046 articles

Heat-killed Clostridium tyrobutyricum protein

Heat-killed Clostridium tyrobutyricum protein, strain ASM#19/SD20/06, is Superbrewed Food's ≥80% protein bacterial biomass ingredient, GRAS per FDA GRN 1129 (no questions, Feb 22, 2024), for foods at 5–90%.

Heat-Shock Response

The heat-shock response is a conserved cellular program triggered by heat and other stresses, in which heat shock proteins refold damaged proteins and protect the cell.

Heat-staked insert

A heat-staked insert, also called a heat-set or thermal insert, is a knurled brass bushing pressed into softened plastic, giving plastic parts durable, reusable machine-screw threads.

Heated Rivalry

Heated Rivalry is a Canadian Crave original drama created by Jacob Tierney, adapted from Rachel Reid's Game Changers hockey romance novel, starring Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie as secret lovers Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov; it premiered November 28, 2025, became Crave's most-watched original, and returns for a second season in Spring 2027.

Heated Rivalry (novel)

Heated Rivalry is Rachel Reid's 2019 M/M hockey romance, second in the Game Changers series (Carina Press), following secret lovers Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov; its 2025 Jacob Tierney TV adaptation made it a bestseller.

Heath

Heath (heathland): open shrubland on free-draining, infertile acidic soils dominated by ericoid dwarf shrubs like Calluna vulgaris; a human-made European cultural landscape maintained by grazing and burning, threatened by nitrogen deposition and succession to forest.

Heath Bell

Heath Bell (born 1977) is a former MLB relief pitcher, also called Heath Justin Bell, closer for the Padres 2007-11 with 134 saves, three straight All-Star games, and MLB Delivery Man of the Year in 2010.

Heath Flora

Heath Flora is an American Republican politician, a California State Assembly member for the 9th district who served as Assembly Republican Leader from 2025 to 2026.

Heath Ledger

Heath Andrew Ledger (1979-2008) was an Australian actor known for 10 Things I Hate About You, Brokeback Mountain, and his posthumous Oscar-winning Joker in The Dark Knight.

Heath Miller

Heath Miller (Earl Heath Miller, born 1982), Pittsburgh Steelers tight end 2005-2015; 592 catches, 6,569 yards, 45 TDs, two Super Bowls (XL, XLIII), two Pro Bowls, Steelers Hall of Honor 2022.

Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine)

Heath Robinson was an electro-mechanical codebreaking machine used at Bletchley Park from June 1943 to find the wheel start positions of the German Lorenz cipher.

Heath Shuler

Heath Shuler (Joseph Heath Shuler), former NFL quarterback and Democratic U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 11th district (2007-2013); 1993 Heisman runner-up at Tennessee, drafted third overall in 1994, later Duke Energy federal affairs executive.

Heath Slater

Heath Slater, ring name of Heath Miller (born 1983), American professional wrestler from Pineville, West Virginia; WWE Nexus founding member, 3MB frontman, and first-ever SmackDown Tag Team Champion with Rhyno, later competing independently and in TNA.

Heath Streak

Heath Streak (Heath Hilton Streak, 1974–2023), Zimbabwe fast-medium all-rounder and captain; national record wicket-taker with 216 Test and 239 ODI wickets; died of colon and liver cancer, aged 49, after a 2021 ICC corruption ban.

Heathcliff (1984 TV series)

Heathcliff (1984 TV series), also called Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, is a DIC syndicated cartoon that premiered September 5, 1984, ran 86 episodes in two seasons, paired Heathcliff segments voiced by Mel Blanc with Catillac Cats segments, and spawned the 1986 Heathcliff -- The Movie.

Heathcliff (comic strip)

Heathcliff is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by George Gately, debuting September 3, 1973, about a silent, mischievous orange tabby who torments dogs and raids fish markets; distinguished from Garfield by its silent single-panel format and its succession to Peter Gallagher in 1998.

Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

Heathcliff, the orphan antihero of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, brought to the Earnshaw farm, in love with Catherine, and consumed by revenge that wins him both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange before his death.

Heathen (David Bowie album)

Heathen (2002) is David Bowie's studio album on ISO/Columbia, produced with Tony Visconti in their first collaboration in 22 years. 12 tracks including Cactus and Slow Burn; UK No. 5, US No. 14; hailed as his best since Scary Monsters.

Heathen Chemistry

Heathen Chemistry, Oasis's fifth studio album released 1 July 2002, triple platinum in the UK and a No. 1 there; last album with drummer Alan White, first with a Liam-written single, Songbird.

Heathenry (new religious movement)

Heathenry, also known as Ásatrú or Forn Sed, is a modern polytheist religion reconstructing pre-Christian Germanic religions of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, created in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Heather Allore

Heather Allore is an American biostatistician at Yale School of Medicine known for gerontological biostatistics and studies of disability, falls, and dementia in older adults.

Heather Altman

Heather Altman, née Bilyeu, is an American luxury real estate agent and reality TV personality, a cast member of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles from 2008.

Heather Berlin

Heather Berlin is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist at Mount Sinai who studies the neural basis of impulsivity, compulsivity, and consciousness, and co-hosts StarTalk.

Heather Bresch

Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan and daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin, led the company through the EpiPen 500% price-increase controversy and a 2007 West Virginia University MBA scandal.

Heather C. Mefford

Heather C. Mefford is an American physician-scientist and geneticist who studies the genetic basis of epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Heather Childers

Heather Childers (born 1969, Charlotte, NC) is an American TV news anchor: Fox & Friends First original 4 a.m. host (2012-2020), later Newsmax American Agenda co-anchor with Bob Sellers from November 2020.

Heather Cloud

Heather Cloud is an American Republican politician serving in the Louisiana Senate from District 28, elected in October 2019 as the first Republican to hold the seat.

Heather Couper

Heather Anita Couper (1949–2020) was a British astronomer and broadcaster who wrote more than 40 books and was the first woman to serve as President of the British Astronomical Association.

Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson (born 1962) is a Boston College historian of nineteenth-century America, author of To Make Men Free and Democracy Awakening, and writer of the Substack newsletter Letters from an American.

Heather D. Maynard

Heather D. Maynard is an American polymer chemist at UCLA, an endowed professor and founding member of the California NanoSystems Institute, known for protein–polymer conjugates for drug delivery.