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n. (context obsolete rare English) hypochondria.
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Biophilia may refer to:
- Biophilia hypothesis, the suggestion that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems
- Biophilia - a 1984 book by E. O. Wilson presenting the above hypothesis
- Biophilia (album), a 2011 album by Björk
Biophilia is the eighth (officially considered to be the seventh) studio album by Icelandic recording artist Björk. It was released on 5 October 2011, by One Little Indian Records and distributed by Nonesuch Records in North America and by Universal Music Group in the rest of the world. Björk composed it as a concept album during the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis, exploring the links between nature, music and technology. Billed as the first "app album", ''Biophilia ''is a multimedia project released alongside a series of apps linking the album's themes to musicology concepts. It was followed by a series of educational workshops in four continents.
Four singles were issued before the album's release in 2011. " Crystalline", co-produced with English dubstep duo 16bit, was released as the lead single on June 28, 2011, accompanied by a music video directed by longtime collaborator Michel Gondry. It was followed by the singles " Cosmogony", " Virus" and " Moon". Björk promoted the album with the Biophilia Tour, which began at the Manchester International Festival in June 2011 and ended in September 2013. A bonus track on the deluxe edition of Biophilia, "Náttúra", was released as a digital single in 2008 around the time the Biophilia project began. "Náttúra" was added as part of a series of bonus tracks after an early online leak of the album weeks before its release date.
''Biophilia ''received critical acclaim and was named one of the best albums of 2011 by several publications; it was nominated for two awards at the 55th Grammy Awards in 2013, winning Best Recording Package. It debuted in the top 40 of every chart it entered worldwide, topping the Taiwan chart and peaking in the top 5 in Iceland, France and Denmark. In 2014, Biophilia became the first app included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Biophilia was followed by two remix series in 2011 and 2012, collected in the remix album Bastards (2012), and music videos for the songs "Moon", "Crystalline", "Hollow" and " Mutual Core". The recording of the album was documented in the 2013 film When Björk Met Attenborough and the tour by the 2014 concert film Biophilia Live.
Usage examples of "biophilia".
Moreover, the directive "stamped in the star" would include biophilia -- the increasing of the chance of the birth of life.
The biophilia of their "neutrino excretion" represented an effect exactly like that of the plants, whose activity had filled the atmosphere of Earth with oxygen, thus making life possible for other organisms, organisms that did not know of photosynthesis.
We were talking about Biophilia and discussing endangered species when Roy mentioned the humpback whale.