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Insatiable (TV series)
Insatiable is a Netflix dark comedy-drama created by Lauren Gussis, starring Debby Ryan as Patty Bladell, a bullied teen who loses 70 pounds and seeks revenge via beauty pageants; ran 2018-2019, 22 episodes, canceled after backlash over fat-shaming and bi-erasure.
Inscribed at the South of the Village
Inscribed at the South of the Village (Ti Du Cheng Nan Zhuang) is a seven-character quatrain by Tang poet Cui Hu, source of the idiom "a face like peach blossom."
Inscripta
Inscripta, formerly Muse Biotechnology, was a Pleasanton, California biotech company founded in 2015 that made CRISPR genome engineering tools and merged with Manus Bio in 2025.
Inscription of Ankhtifi
The Inscription of Ankhtifi, also called the Autobiography of Ankhtify, is the autobiographical text of nomarch Ankhtifi, carved in his rock-cut tomb at Mo'alla, Upper Egypt.
Inscription of Harsiotef
The Inscription of Harsiotef is a gray granite stela of Harsiotef, king of Kush in the early 4th century BC, found at Gebel Barkal in Sudan.
Inscription of Irike-Amannote
The Inscription of Irike-Amannote (Kawa IX) is a royal inscription on Temple T at Kawa recording the accession of the Kushite king Irikeamannote after Talakhamani's death in the late 5th century BC.
Inscription of Kaleb
The inscription of Kaleb (RIÉth 191) is a sixth-century royal inscription in Gəʿəz, cut at Aksum to record King Kālēb's first invasion of South Arabia.
Inscription of Kaleb at Marib
The Inscription of Kaleb at Marib is a fragmentary Ge'ez royal inscription of King Kaleb of Aksum, found at Ma'rib, Yemen, recording his campaign against Himyar.
Inscription of Quintus Marcius
The Inscription of Quintus Marcius is a trilingual Latin, Greek, and Punic inscription found near Oudna, Tunisia, recording an altar dedicated by the physician Quintus Marcius Protomacus.
Inscription of Tefibi
The Inscription of Tefibi is the autobiographical text of Iti-ibi, nomarch of Asyut during the First Intermediate Period, carved in his rock-cut Tomb III and recording his battles against the Theban-aligned southern nomes.
Inscription of Udjahorresnet
The Inscription of Udjahorresnet is an autobiographical text on a basalt statue in the Vatican Museums, the chief Egyptian source for the Persian conquest of Egypt under Cambyses II.
Inscription on Mount Yanran
The Inscription on Mount Yanran (燕然勒石) is a cliff inscription carved in 89 CE after General Dou Xian defeated the Northern Xiongnu, with text drafted by Ban Gu.
Inscriptions of Asyut
The Inscriptions of Asyut are autobiographical texts and tomb decoration of nomarch governors at Asyut, Egypt, carved in the 21st century BCE during the First Intermediate Period.
Inscriptions of Djau
The Inscriptions of Djau are Old Kingdom texts from Abydos, chiefly a red granite door jamb Djau, a Sixth Dynasty vizier, set up at the temple of Khentiamentiu.
Inscriptions of Ezana
The inscriptions of Ezana are the royal inscriptions of Ezana, fourth-century king of Aksum, recording his military campaigns and his conversion to Christianity, written in Greek, Ge'ez, and pseudo-Sabaean.
Inscriptions of Hanni
The Inscriptions of Hanni, also printed Hanne, are Neo-Elamite rock texts carved for Hanni son of Tahhi, local ruler of Ayapir in the Izeh valley, Khuzestan, Iran.
Inscriptions of Kaleb
The Inscriptions of Kaleb are fragmentary Ge'ez royal inscriptions erected by Kaleb, Christian king of Aksum, commemorating his sixth-century invasion of Himyar that overthrew its ruler Yusuf Asar Yathar.
Inscriptions of Puzur-Insusinak
The Inscriptions of Puzur-Insusinak (Puzur-Šušinak inscriptions) are Akkadian and Linear Elamite texts of the last king of Awan, found at Susa and largely held in the Louvre.
Inscriptions of Ur-Nanshe
The Inscriptions of Ur-Nanshe are roughly 40 surviving royal inscriptions of Ur-Nanshe, first king of the First Dynasty of Lagash, chiefly recording his building of temples, walls, and canals.
Inscryption
Inscryption is a 2021 deckbuilding roguelike with escape-room puzzles and psychological horror by Daniel Mullins Games, published by Devolver Digital. Released October 19, 2021, it won BAFTA Game Design and GDC GOTY 2022 and sold over 1.46 million units by mid-2022.
Inscuteable
Inscuteable (Insc; insc, CG11312) is a Drosophila adaptor protein of asymmetric cell division: it links Par polarity complexes to Pins/LGN, orients spindles apico-basally, and competes with NuMA for LGN binding; human INSC mutations cause CMT2 neuropathy.
InSe field-effect transistor
An InSe field-effect transistor is a transistor whose conducting channel is made of indium selenide, a two-dimensional semiconductor prized for high electron mobility and a 1.26 eV band gap.
INSEAD
INSEAD, the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires, is an international graduate business school founded in 1957, known for its ten-month MBA and campuses in France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi.
Insect
Insect: six-legged arthropod with head, thorax, abdomen, one pair of antennae, and up to two wing pairs; over half of described species, key pollinators, facing contested global declines.
Insect collecting
Insect collecting: capturing, killing, preserving, and storing insects and arthropods as specimens for entomology or hobby. Uses nets, kill jars with ethyl acetate, pinning, ethanol; amateur collectors declining.
Insect flight
Insect flight is the powered, flapping-wing flight of insects, driven by thoracic muscles. Insects were the first animals to evolve powered flight, with wingbeats up to 1,000 times per second.
Insect hotel
Insect hotel (bee hotel): artificial nest of hollow reeds or drilled wood for cavity-nesting solitary bees and wasps. Tunnel diameters 2–12.7 mm, under 100 tunnels; occupancy 13–44%; risks include parasitoids, chalkbrood, and introduced bees.
Insect morphology
Insect morphology: the comparative study of insect form, covering the chitinous exoskeleton, head, thorax, and abdomen tagmata, mouthparts, antennae, legs, wings, spiracles, and tracheal systems used in identification.
Insect mouthparts
Insect mouthparts: head appendages built from labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium, and hypopharynx, modified into chewing, piercing-sucking, siphoning, lapping, and sponging feeding organs across 400 million years of evolution.
Insect olfaction
Insect olfaction: chemical sensing via sensilla on antennae, odorant-binding proteins (~15 kDa), and OR-Orco tetrameric cation-channel receptors, driving combinatorial and pheromone labeled-line coding in the antennal lobe.