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Team Trees
Team Trees (#TeamTrees) is a 2019 reforestation fundraising campaign by YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober; $1 plants one tree via the Arbor Day Foundation, with over 25 million trees verified planted across six continents.
Team Water
#TeamWater is a creator-led crowdfunding campaign by MrBeast and Mark Rober that raised over $40 million in August 2025 to provide clean water to 2 million people for decades, with WaterAid as lead partner.
Technology acceptance model
Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Davis's 1989 information systems theory predicting technology acceptance via perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use; basis for TAM2, TAM3, and UTAUT, widely applied in health care and education research.
Teenager (word)
Teenager: English word for a person aged 13 to 19, from the -teen numerals; first recorded 1913 (Merriam-Webster), print debut "teen-agers" 1941, popularized in the postwar 1940s-1950s youth market, distinct from WHO's 10-19 adolescent definition.
Teji Bachchan (तेजी बच्चन)
Teji Bachchan (तेजी बच्चन), born Teji Suri (1914–2007), was an Indian psychology lecturer, stage actor, and social activist, wife of poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, mother of Amitabh Bachchan, and close friend of Indira Gandhi.
Teke people
The Teke (Tio, Bateke, Anziku) are a Bantu-speaking people of the Republic of the Congo, western DRC, and Gabon, known for the pre-colonial Tio (Makoko) kingdom at Pool Malebo, trade intermediation, and their butti power figures and kidumu masks.
Telekinesis
Telekinesis, now usually called psychokinesis (PK), is the claimed mental influence of physical objects or random processes. Dice and RNG experiments, meta-analyses, and replications find no accepted evidence for it.
Telepathy
Telepathy is the purported mind-to-mind transmission of information without sensory channels, a psi phenomenon coined by Frederic Myers in 1882. Tested mainly via ganzfeld experiments; replication remains disputed and no mechanism is known.
Teli
Teli (तेली) is an occupational caste of oil-pressers and oil traders across India, Nepal, and Pakistan, Hindu or Muslim (Muslim Telis called Roshandaar or Teli Malik), named from Sanskrit taila (oil), now mostly classified OBC.
Telugu people
Telugu people, known as Andhra people or తెలుగువారు, are an ethnolinguistic group of southern India defined by the Telugu language, concentrated in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Telugu wedding ceremony
Telugu wedding ceremony: the traditional Hindu marriage ritual of Telugu people of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, also called pelli or kalyanam, defined by Jeelakarra Bellam, Mangalasutram, Talambralu, and Saptapadi at a late-night muhurtham.
Temperament
Temperament: stable, early-appearing, constitutionally based individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation; also the classical Hippocratic-Galenic four temperament types. Covers Thomas and Chess, Kagan, Rothbart, genetics, and Big Five links.
Temperament and Character Inventory
The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) is a self-report personality questionnaire measuring seven dimensions, introduced by Robert Cloninger in 1993 and revised as the TCI-R.
Ten Lost Tribes
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel: northern Israelite tribes deported by Assyria after the fall of Samaria in 722 BCE and believed lost. Spawned a global myth of hidden descendants, from Arzareth and the Sambatyon to Jewish Indian and Pashtun claims.
Ten Pound Poms
Ten Pound Poms: Britons who migrated to Australia (and New Zealand) after WWII under the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, £10 adult fare, children free, two-year stay required; over 1.5 million migrated 1945–1982.
Ten stages of genocide
Ten Stages of Genocide: Gregory Stanton's model for Genocide Watch describing genocide as ten predictable, non-linear processes, from classification and dehumanization to extermination and denial, with prevention at every stage.
Ten-item personality inventory
The Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) is a brief self-report questionnaire measuring the Big Five personality traits with two items per trait, introduced by Gosling, Rentfrow, and Swann in 2003.
Tenggerese people
Tenggerese, also called Wong Tengger or Tengger Javanese, are about 90,000 Hindu Javanese highlanders around Mount Bromo, East Java, preserving a Majapahit-era priesthood, an archaic Javanese dialect, and the annual Yadnya Kasada crater-offering rite.
Tengku Zatashah
Tengku Zatashah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, Selangor princess, daughter of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah; social advocate behind #SayNo2Plastic and #ZeroFoodWastage (2016), L'Oréal Paris alumna, InNature Berhad director, Legion d'Honneur recipient.
Tent city
Tent city: a settlement of tents or improvised shelters occupied by people experiencing homelessness, also called homeless encampment. Distinguishes sanctioned tent cities from unsanctioned encampments, traces roots to Hoovervilles, and covers Grants Pass-era clearances and housing-first responses.
Teochew people (潮州人)
Teochew people (潮州人, 潮汕人), a Han Chinese subgroup of the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong speaking the Southern Min Teochew dialect; noted for the Siam-centered diaspora of about 30 million, the 香叻暹汕 trade network, and a distinct ritual-craft culture.
Teresa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias
Teresa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma (born 6 February 1937), Spanish princess of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, first cousin of Juan Carlos I, sister of the previous Duke of Calabria, and grandmother of Teresa Urquijo.
TERF (acronym)
TERF, trans-exclusionary radical feminist, is an acronym coined in 2008 by blogger Viv Smythe as a neutral label, now widely considered offensive, for feminists who exclude trans women; also a telomere protein and military terrain flight.
Terminology of homosexuality
Terminology of homosexuality covers the words for same-sex orientation: homosexual (coined 1869), gay, lesbian, queer, MSM, and LGBT acronyms, and why APA, CDC, and major style guides now prefer identity terms over the clinical label.
Terror management theory
Terror management theory (TMT), proposed by Greenberg, Pyszczynski, and Solomon in 1986 from Ernest Becker's work, holds that cultural worldviews and self-esteem buffer death anxiety; mortality salience studies support it, but Many Labs 4 failed to replicate the classic effect.
TESCREAL
TESCREAL, coined by Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres in 2023, is an acronym for transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism, argued to be a eugenics-rooted bundle driving the AGI race.
Test of Language Development
The Test of Language Development (TOLD) is a standardized test measuring spoken language skills, including vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, in children ages 4 to 17, with primary and intermediate editions.
Test of Memory Malingering
The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) is a neuropsychological test that detects feigned memory impairment through forced-choice recognition of common objects, developed by Tom N. Tombaugh in 1997.
Test of Variables of Attention
The Test of Variables of Attention (T.O.V.A.) is a computerized continuous performance test measuring attention and impulse control over about 22 minutes, used as an objective adjunct to ADHD evaluation.
Teutons
Teutons (Teutones, Teutoni; Greek Teutones): ancient Germanic tribe of Jutland allied with the Cimbri, destroyed by Marius at Aquae Sextiae in 102 BC; name later a Latin term for Germans, source of deutsch-related words.