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Mind the Malhotras

Mind the Malhotras is a Hindi-language Amazon Prime Video sitcom (2019, 2022), the Indian adaptation of the Israeli comedy La Famiglia, starring Mini Mathur and Cyrus Sahukar as a Mumbai couple in marriage therapy.

Mind transfer (biological)

Mind transfer (biological), or identity transfer, is a science fiction trope in which consciousness moves into another body via brain transplant, RNA transfer, or possession; no real-world method exists.

Mind uploading

Mind uploading, also called whole brain emulation, is a proposed process for copying a person's memories, personality, and mental attributes from their biological brain onto a computer.

Mind Your Language

Mind Your Language: British ITV sitcom (1977–1986, LWT) created by Vince Powell, starring Barry Evans as EFL teacher Jeremy Brown teaching immigrant students in London; known for national-stereotype humor, international remakes, and ESL teaching use.

Mind your Ps and Qs

Mind your Ps and Qs is an English idiom meaning to mind one's manners and language, first recorded in 1756; its origin, whether schoolroom letters, printers' type, or pints and quarts, is unknown.

Mind-Body Therapies

Mind-body therapies are techniques that use brain-body interactions to improve health, classified as complementary and alternative medicine; examples include meditation, yoga, tai chi, acupuncture, massage, and spinal manipulation.

Mind–body dualism

Mind–body dualism, also called Cartesian duality, is the view in philosophy of mind that mind and body are fundamentally different kinds of things, against materialism.

Mind–body problem

The mind–body problem, also called the mind–body dichotomy, is a central problem in philosophy of mind concerning how mental events, consciousness, and properties relate to physical ones, formulated by Descartes in his 1641 Meditations.

Mind2Web

Mind2Web is a benchmark and dataset for developing and evaluating generalist web agents, released in June 2023 by Ohio State University with over 2,000 tasks from 137 real websites across 31 domains.

Mindanao

Mindanao, the second largest island of the Philippines (about 10.14 million ha), is the country's agricultural breadbasket, hosts the BARMM autonomous region, and faces seismic, power, and infrastructure challenges.

Mindanao Facula

Mindanao Facula is a 210-km-wide bright spot (facula) on Titan at 6.6 degrees south latitude, approved by the IAU in 2006 and named after the Philippine island of Mindanao.

Mindaugas

Mindaugas was a 13th-century Lithuanian ruler regarded as the founder of the Lithuanian state; baptized in 1251, he was crowned King of Lithuania in 1253 and murdered in 1263.

Mindaugas Sinkevičius

Mindaugas Sinkevičius is a Lithuanian Social Democratic politician who has served as Prime Minister of Lithuania since 2026, after serving as mayor of Jonava and economy minister.

Mindaugas Umaras

Mindaugas Umaras (Миндаугас Ионович Умарас), Lithuanian track cyclist born 1968 in Kaunas; 1988 Olympic gold in the 4,000 m team pursuit for the Soviet Union, 11th for Lithuania at Atlanta 1996; brother of Gintautas Umaras.

Mindblast

Mindblast; or, The Definitive Buddy is a 1984 collection of plays, fiction, poetry, and autobiography by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, his last book published during his lifetime.

Mindelo

Mindelo is the port city and capital of the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde, an Atlantic archipelago off West Africa, often called the country's cultural capital.

Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia

Minden is a town of about 84,000 in northeastern North Rhine-Westphalia, seat of Kreis Minden-Lübbecke. First recorded as Minda in 798, a former Hanseatic episcopal town known for the Mittelland Canal's Wasserstraßenkreuz over the Weser and the 1759 Battle of Minden.

Minder (TV series)

Minder: British ITV comedy-drama (1979–1994) created by Leon Griffiths, starring George Cole as Arthur Daley and Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, with a 2009 Shane Richie revival.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness (Pali: sati) is present-moment awareness without judgment, rooted in Buddhism and adapted into secular MBSR and MBCT programs; evidence shows small-to-moderate benefits for stress, anxiety, and depression versus no treatment.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an eight-session group psychotherapy combining mindfulness meditation with cognitive therapy, developed in the 1990s to prevent depressive relapse in recurrent depression.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week group program created by Jon Kabat-Zinn at UMass in 1979, combining secular meditation, mindful stretching, and daily home practice. Meta-analyses show moderate effects on stress, anxiety, and depression, and equivalence with CBT for depression and chronic pain.

Mindhunter (TV series)

Mindhunter is a Netflix psychological crime drama (2017-2019, 19 episodes) created by Joe Penhall and directed by David Fincher, based on John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker's book, dramatizing the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the birth of criminal profiling through agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench.

Mindhunters

Mindhunters is a 2004 Renny Harlin thriller, also called a Ten Little Indians-style slasher, about FBI profiler trainees trapped on an island with a killer among them; delayed to May 2005, grossing $21.1M on a $27M budget.

Mindia

Mindia, also known as Khogais Mindia (მინდია), is a Khevsur hero of Georgian folklore who gained the power to understand the language of nature after eating snake flesh.

Mindiyum Paranjum

Mindiyum Paranjum (മിണ്ടിയും പറഞ്ഞും), meaning chit-chat, is a 2025 Malayalam romantic drama by Arun Bose starring Unni Mukundan and Aparna Balamurali as a long-distance married couple; released 25 December 2025, streaming on Sun NXT from 6 February 2026.

Mindjedef

Mindjedef was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a son of Prince Kawab and a grandson of King Khufu, known from his red granite sarcophagus and mastaba G 7760 at Giza.

Mindless Behavior

Mindless Behavior was an American pop-R&B boy band formed in Los Angeles in 2008 (Prodigy, Ray Ray, Princeton, Roc Royal). Debut single "My Girl" (2010); albums #1 Girl (No. 7 Billboard 200), All Around the World (No. 6), #OfficialMBmusic (2016); disbanded 2017.

Mindless Self Indulgence

Mindless Self Indulgence (MSI), American electropunk/industrial rock band formed 1997 in New York City, fronted by Jimmy Urine; albums Tight (1999) through How I Learned... (2013); on hiatus since 2013.

Mindlin contact theory

Mindlin contact theory, due to Raymond D. Mindlin in 1949, describes how two elastic bodies pressed together respond to a small tangential force: slip occurs at the contact edge while the inner core sticks.

Mindloop

Mindloop names several unrelated entities: a Greek watersports center in Epanomi near Thessaloniki, an Indian student skilling platform, gamified and spaced-repetition learning tools, a Dubai audio studio, a game, and an Indonesian ultramarathon.