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Earthworm body wall and hydrostatic skeleton
The earthworm body wall, a layered sleeve of cuticle, epidermis, setae, and opposing muscle sheets, forms a hydrostatic skeleton that powers peristaltic locomotion and burrowing through soil.
Earthworm circulatory and respiratory systems
The earthworm circulatory and respiratory systems comprise a closed circulatory system with five pairs of aortic arches and respiration through the moist skin, with no lungs or gills.
Earthworm digestive and excretory systems
Earthworms digest soil with a straight alimentary canal running mouth to intestine, and excrete waste through nephridia and the gut, with ammonia leaving mainly via the gut.
Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim: 1994 Shiny Entertainment run-and-gun platformer for Sega Genesis, character by Doug TenNapel, published by Interplay; million-seller with sequels, cartoon, and comic.
Earthworm Jim 2
Earthworm Jim 2 is a 1995 run and gun platform game by Shiny Entertainment, the sequel to Earthworm Jim, starring an earthworm in a robotic suit.
Earthworm reproduction
Earthworm reproduction is the process by which earthworms, simultaneous hermaphrodites, mate ventral-to-ventral to exchange sperm, then produce cocoons from which miniature juveniles hatch with no larval stage.
Earthworm Society of Britain
Earthworm Society of Britain (ESB), founded 2009, runs the National Earthworm Recording Scheme for UK and Ireland earthworm records, with soil pit sampling, verification criteria, and open data via NBN and GBIF.
Earthworms as food and feed
Earthworms as food and feed is the use of farmed earthworms, whole or as dried meal, as protein for human diets and for livestock, aquaculture, and pet feeds.
Earwax
Earwax, or cerumen, is the waxy secretion of ear canal glands that protects and cleans the ear. Wet and dry types follow the ABCC11 gene; impaction affects up to 30% of people and is treated with softeners, irrigation, or manual removal.
Earwig
Earwig, order Dermaptera (skin wings): about 2,000 nocturnal insect species with forcep-like abdominal cerci and compactly folding hind wings; omnivores that are orchard predators or pests, harmless to humans despite the ear myth.
Earwig and the Witch (アーヤと魔女)
Earwig and the Witch (アーヤと魔女) is Studio Ghibli's first fully 3DCG animated feature, directed by Gorō Miyazaki from Diana Wynne Jones's novel, broadcast on NHK on December 30, 2020, and released theatrically in Japan in 2021.
Earworm
Earworm (involuntary musical imagery, from German Ohrwurm; stuck song syndrome): a short tune repeating involuntarily in the mind, experienced weekly by over 85% of people, triggered by recent listening and mind-wandering, distinct from musical obsessions and hallucinations.
EASA pilot licensing
EASA pilot licensing is the European Union system of flight crew licenses, set by the 2011 Aircrew Regulation, with licenses issued by national authorities of EASA Member States.
EASA U-space Regulation
The EASA U-space Regulation, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/664, establishes the European Union framework for managing drone traffic in designated low-level airspace called U-space, applying since 2023.
Easan Sivaniah
Easan Sivaniah is a materials scientist and professor at Kyoto University's iCeMS who works on polymer membranes for carbon capture, hydrogen purification, and structural color.
Ease of doing business index
The ease of doing business index was a World Bank report, published from 2003 to 2020, ranking up to 190 economies on their regulatory environments.
Ease-off topography
Ease-off topography is a surface-deviation map in gear engineering that shows the normal deviation between a gear tooth flank and the conjugate flank of the mating gear.
Easement
Easement: a nonpossessory property interest allowing use of another's land; also called servitude right. Appurtenant easements run with land via dominant and servient estates; created by grant, implication, necessity, or prescription.
Eason Chan (陈奕迅)
Eason Chan (陈奕迅) is a Hong Kong singer and actor, born in 1974, regarded as one of the most representative male singers of Chinese-language pop.
East
East: one of the four cardinal directions, at 90 degrees bearing and azimuth, the direction of equinoctial sunrise; from Proto-Germanic aust-, "toward the sunrise," distinct from west, orient, and the Cold War East.
East 17
East 17: English boy band formed 1991 in Walthamstow, London, named after postcode E17; members Mortimer, Harvey, Hendy, Coldwell; 1994 Christmas Number 1 Stay Another Day; 18 million records sold.
East Africa
East Africa: eastern region of Africa defined by the Great Rift Valley, the African Great Lakes, early human origins, and the eight-state East African Community headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania.
East Africa at the Cricket World Cup
East Africa was a composite cricket team from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia that played in the inaugural 1975 Cricket World Cup, losing all three matches.
East Africa cricket team
East Africa cricket team: composite ICC Associate side (1966–1989) representing Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, later Zambia; played the 1975 World Cup, losing all three matches, and the 1979, 1982, 1986 ICC Trophies.
East Africa Protectorate
The East Africa Protectorate was a British protectorate proclaimed in 1895 over the former Imperial British East Africa Company's territory, becoming the Colony of Kenya in 1920.
East African Bashment Crew
East African Bashment Crew is a Kenyan-Ugandan reggae and dancehall collaboration of Wyre, Nazizi, and Bebe Cool, best known for the hits 'Fire Anthem' and 'Kube'.
East African Breweries
East African Breweries (EABL) is East Africa's leading branded alcohol company, founded in Kenya in 1922, known for Tusker, Uganda Waragi, and Guinness, and listed in Nairobi.
East African campaign (World War II)
The East African campaign of World War II was the fight between British Commonwealth forces and Fascist Italy for Italian East Africa, from June 1940 to 1941.
East African Community
The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organization of eight East African partner states, with headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania, founded in 1967 and refounded in 1999.
East African Crude Oil Pipeline
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a 1,443 km heated pipeline carrying crude from Uganda's Lake Albert oilfields to a terminal near Tanga, Tanzania.