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Rainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance: international nonprofit (founded 1986 by Daniel Katz) running the green-frog sustainable agriculture certification for coffee, cocoa, tea, and bananas in 60+ countries; merged with UTZ in 2018; standard v1.4 applies from October 2025.
Rajasthani people
The Rajasthani people, also known as Rajasthanis, are the inhabitants of Rajasthan in northwestern India, formed after independence from twenty-three Rajput princely states of former Rajputana.
Rajiv Dixit (राजीव दीक्षित)
Rajiv Dixit (राजीव दीक्षित), 1967–2010, Indian swadeshi activist and orator; founded Azadi Bachao Andolan, was National Secretary of Bharat Swabhiman Andolan with Baba Ramdev, left 5,000+ Hindi lectures; died on his 43rd birthday amid disputed circumstances.
Rajput
Rajput, member of a Hindu warrior-ruling caste of northern, western, and central India organized in patrilineal clans; rose 7th–12th centuries, allied with the Mughals under Akbar, and ruled Rajputana princely states into the modern era.
Rakhine people
Rakhine (Arakanese) people: Theravada Buddhist ethnic group of Rakhine State, western Myanmar, about 3 million strong (6.2% of population, 2014 census); heirs of the Arakanese kingdom conquered in 1784, distinct from the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Ralph Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy (1926–1990) was a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest friend, co-founder of the SCLC, and its second president (1968–1977), leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign.
Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar (रमाबाई भीमराव आंबेडकर)
Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar (रमाबाई भीमराव आंबेडकर) was the first wife of B. R. Ambedkar and is remembered in the Ambedkarite movement as a figure of sacrifice.
Ramon Magsaysay Award
The Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called Asia's Nobel Prize, honors selfless service in Asia. It was created in 1957 in memory of the Philippine president.
Randall Gair Doherty
Randall Gair Doherty, also called Aleister Atatürk, Aleister Macalpine, and Count Charles Edward D'Arquires (1937–2002), was the son of occultist Aleister Crowley and Patricia Doherty; he claimed the title Adjudicator of the Supreme Council of Great Britain and sought a 1976 meeting with Harold Wilson.
Randolph McCoy
Randolph "Old Ranel" McCoy (1825-1914), Pike County, Kentucky patriarch of the McCoy clan in the Hatfield-McCoy feud; lost five children, home burned 1888, died by cooking-fire burns.
Randonautica
Randonautica (Randonauts app) is a quantumly generated adventure app sending users to random GPS coordinates after setting an intention, testing Mind-Matter Interaction via Attractor, Void, Power, and Blind Spot points.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Lebanese-American journalist based in Beirut who hosts Dispatches and co-hosts BT Live on BreakThrough News, reporting on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy.
Ranks in Scouts BSA
Ranks in Scouts BSA: the seven sequential ranks Scout, Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, Life, and Eagle Scout of Scouting America's Scouts BSA program, covering requirements, boards of review, the Eagle project, and 2024 statistics.
Rapa Nui people
The Rapa Nui are the indigenous Polynesian people of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, settled from Eastern Polynesia around 1250 CE, annexed by Chile in 1888, decimated to 111 people by 1877, and now about 7,500 strong.
Rape by proxy
Rape by proxy: sexual violence committed by a local perpetrator at the direction or payment of a remote customer, notably in live-streamed child abuse; the customer can be indicted for rape without traveling, as in the 2023 French case.
Rape fantasy
Rape fantasy: a sexual fantasy of forced sex. 31–57% of women report such fantasies, 9–17% frequently; also discussed in feminist sex wars, pornography research, and ethics of fictional depiction.
Rapid automatized naming
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a timed psychometric task in which a person names arrays of familiar symbols, like letters or colors, as fast as possible.
Rapid visual information processing (task)
The rapid visual information processing (RVIP) task is a computerized test that streams digits at 100 per minute and asks participants to respond to three-digit sequences, measuring sustained attention.
Rapport
Rapport: a quality interaction experience defined by mutual attentiveness, positivity, and coordination (Tickle-Degnen & Rosenthal, 1990). Central to professional interviews, therapy, and healthcare; 126 measures reviewed in 2024 show no agreed definition or validated common scale.
RaptureTok
RaptureTok was a 2025 TikTok trend and community around evangelical Rapture predictions, especially Joshua Mhlakela's claim that the Rapture would fall on September 23–24, 2025; it mixed sincere end-times preparation with mass satire, drew millions of views, and passed without event.
Rarámuri
Rarámuri (Ralámuli, Tarahumara): indigenous people of the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, Mexico, about 120,000 strong, known for long-distance running, Jesuit-era cargo government, and recent land restitutions.
Rasch model
The Rasch model, also called Rasch analysis, is a psychometric item-response model that converts the difference between a person's ability and an item's difficulty into the probability of a correct response.
Rat control in Alberta
Rat control in Alberta: the provincial Rat Control Program, established 1950, keeps Alberta essentially free of Norway rats via a 600 by 29 km border control zone, mandatory pest law, and annual inspections.
Rat race
Rat race: an endless, self-defeating competitive struggle for power, money, and position. Term attested 1934 (aviation), figurative by 1939 (Kitty Foyle); formalized in Akerlof's 1976 economics model.
Rating of perceived exertion
Rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is a psychometric scale on which a person rates how hard their physical exertion feels, used to monitor and prescribe exercise intensity.
Rational choice model
Rational choice model (rational choice theory): formal social-science framework modeling choice as axiomatic utility maximization, foundational to neoclassical microeconomics, critiqued by bounded rationality and behavioral economics.
Rationalist community
Rationalist community, also rationality community or rationalsphere: social movement formed around Overcoming Bias and LessWrong (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson) from 2006-2009, centered on Bayesian reasoning, cognitive bias, and AI risk, overlapping with effective altruism.
Rationalization (psychology)
Rationalization (psychology): an unconscious defense mechanism, named by Ernest Jones in 1908, in which plausible false reasons justify intolerable motives; linked to Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory and rated a disavowal-level defense in the DMRS hierarchy.
Raw Egg Nationalist
Raw Egg Nationalist (REN) is the pseudonym of British historian Charles Cornish-Dale, a far-right influencer on X as @Babygravy9 promoting raw-egg diets, "soy globalism" conspiracies, and white nationalist politics via Man's World magazine and The End of Men.
Reactance (psychology)
Reactance (psychology), from Jack Brehm's 1966 reactance theory: an aversive motivational state, mixing anger and counterarguing, triggered by threats to behavioral freedom, producing resistance, boomerang effects, and reduced persuasion in health campaigns.