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Human Traffic
Human Traffic (1999) is Justin Kerrigan's Cardiff-set British comedy-drama about five friends, including John Simm and Danny Dyer, escaping weekday jobs for a drug-fueled clubbing weekend; a Cool Cymru cult classic, 4K-restored in 2025.
Human trafficking
Human trafficking, or trafficking in persons, is recruiting or moving people by coercion, deception, or abuse of vulnerability for exploitation, defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol. An estimated 27.6 million people were in forced labour in 2021, generating $236 billion in annual illegal profits.
Human trafficking in the United States
Human trafficking in the United States, defined under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 as sex trafficking or forced labor, covering federal legislation, prevalence estimates, enforcement, task forces, and victim services.
Human use of caves
Human use of caves is the practice of using natural underground chambers for shelter, ritual, burial, and art, from the Middle Paleolithic to cave hotels in Cappadocia today.
Human uses of Cladonia lichens
Cladonia lichens, the shrub-like genus including reindeer lichens, serve as reindeer forage, sources of medicinal and dye compounds, and decorative material for crafts, models, and floral arrangements.
Human uses of scorpions
Human uses of scorpions: traditional Chinese medicine (Quanxie/Scorpio, Buthus martensii), venom milking for drug research and probes, antivenom production, food in Asia, folk-medicine trade, and unproven blue scorpion cancer products.
Human vaginal size
Human vaginal size: measurable length and width of the vaginal canal, also called vaginal dimensions. MRI baselines: 62.7 mm undistended length, widths 26–33 mm, large inter-individual variation; size does not affect sexual function.
Human Vapor
Human Vapor is a 2026 Japanese science fiction thriller series on Netflix, directed by Shinzo Katayama, written by Yeon Sang-ho and Ryu Yong-jae, and starring Shun Oguri and Yu Aoi.
Human vestigiality
Human vestigiality is the retention in the human body of structures and behaviors that have lost some or all of their ancestral function over evolutionary time.
Human voice
Human voice: sound produced by airflow through the larynx vibrating the vocal folds, shaped by vocal tract resonators; basis of speech, singing, and nonverbal vocalizations; source-filter model, voice disorders, and vocal biomarkers.
Human vs Hamster
Human vs Hamster is a 2024 American game show on Magnolia Network and Max in which two-person human teams compete against pet hamsters in scaled challenges, hosted by Sarah Sherman, Kyle Brandt, and Brian Balthazar, eight episodes, final round The Cage.
Human waste
Human waste (human excreta) is feces and urine from human metabolism. Distinguished by pathogen load, nutrient content (4.5 kg N per person yearly), and sanitation systems: safely managed coverage reached 58% by 2024.
Human wave attack
Human wave attack (人海战术): frontal assault by densely concentrated, unshielded infantry to overwhelm a defended line. Used in WWI, Korea, the Iran-Iraq War, and described at Bakhmut; often a mislabel for infiltration tactics.
Human Xtensions
Human Xtensions, later HumanTouch Surgical, is an Israeli medical-device startup founded in 2012 in Kfar Netter that developed HandX, a handheld robotic system for minimally invasive surgery.
Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup
Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup: a branch of the paternal-line Y chromosome tree defined by SNPs, named under the 2002 YCC system, used in genealogy, population history, and forensics, with African origin and regional frequency differences from drift.
Human zoo
A human zoo, also called an ethnological exposition, was a public exhibition displaying people from colonized societies to paying audiences, chiefly from 1810 to 1940.
Human-body model
The human-body model (HBM) is an electrostatic discharge test model representing a charged person as a 100 pF capacitor and 1,500 Ω resistor discharging into a semiconductor device.
Human-centered design
Human-centered design is an approach to problem-solving and system development that starts from the needs and behaviors of users rather than from technology or business constraints alone.
Human-powered aircraft
A human-powered aircraft (HPA) is an airplane powered solely by the pilot's muscles, an extreme design with very large, very light wings flown by trained cyclists in calm air.
Human-powered airship
A human-powered airship is a lighter-than-air craft the pilot propels by pedaling or hand cranking, with buoyant gas such as helium carrying the craft's weight.
Human-powered helicopter
A human-powered helicopter is a rotary-wing aircraft that hovers using only muscle power, achieved first by Cal Poly's Da Vinci III in 1989 and won by AeroVelo's Atlas in 2013.
Human-powered ornithopter
A human-powered ornithopter is an aircraft flown by flapping wings the pilot powers; only the University of Toronto's Snowbird has achieved a recognized sustained flight, in 2010.
Human-robot handover
A human-robot handover is a collaborative action in which a robot and a person transfer an object, in either direction, and a basic capability for robots working alongside people.
Human-robot interaction
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is the interdisciplinary field concerned with understanding, designing, and evaluating robotic systems for use by or with humans, spanning factory robots to social robots.
Human–AI interaction
Human–AI interaction is a multidisciplinary field studying the design of interactive artificial intelligence for human use, extending human–computer interaction; an early landmark was the 1966 chatbot Eliza.
Human–animal hybrid
Human–animal hybrid, or chimera: an organism or embryo containing cells of both human and animal origin, distinct from true gamete hybrids. Key work includes the 2021 20-day human-monkey embryo; main goal is growing transplantable human organs, mainly in pigs.
Human–canine bond
Human–canine bond: the reciprocal human–dog relationship, also called the human–dog bond. Began via commensal wolf domestication over 14,000 years ago; studied through attachment theory, oxytocin, and mixed health-benefit evidence.
Human–computer interaction
Human–computer interaction (HCI), also called human–machine interaction, is a field that designs interactions between people and computational systems and builds the supporting interfaces; it emerged as a distinct field around 1983.
Human–object interaction detection
Human–object interaction detection is a computer vision task that locates humans and objects in an image and classifies what each human is doing with each object.
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human is a philosophical book by Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1878. It is a collection of aphorisms that critiques pieties and champions science.