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Extravagance is unrestrained excess. Extravagant behaviour includes the frequent purchase of luxury goods. However, in psychology, "extravagance" can refer to various measures of human novelty seeking in which some of the behavior requires no particular monetary expenditure. Indeed, the phenomenon is not limited to individual human psychology -- extravagance can manifest itself in unrestrained excess of energy production seen in, for example, supernovae and cosmological expansion,[1] and in modern industrial societies.[2][3] One can even speak of the extravagant range of organism body forms,[4] of species bioluminescence,[5] and of scientific conclusions arrived at,[6] in entomology. This article, however, addresses only the sense of the term that is indisputably[citation needed] encyclopedic: overspending.
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edit- ^ Chengalar, Jayaram N. (25 August 2003). "Review of The Extravagant Universe" (PDF). Current Science. 8 (4). Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
... observations established that the universe was, in fact, expanding, and that the cosmological constant was not necessary. Astrophysicists have, ever since regarded the cosmological constant ... as an embarrassment at best and 'theoretical poison ivy 'at worst. But the universe is, as Kirshner says, an extravagant place, stranger than our wildest dreams.
{{cite journal}}: line feed character in|quote=at position 85 (help) - ^ Catton, Willian R. (1982). Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. University of Illinois Press. p. 52. ISBN 0252009886.
- ^ Walker, Richard A.; Large, David B. (1974–75). "The Economics of Energy Extravagance" (PDF). Ecology Law Quarterly (4). Retrieved 7 February 2011.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ "Session 12: Molecular studies on bizarre deep-sea Asellota (Crustacea: Isopoda) phylogeny and genetic variability of selected taxa" (PDF). Gottingen: 18th Annual Symposium "Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology" of the German Botanical Society. 7–11 April 2008: 121.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help); Unknown parameter|authors=ignored (help) - ^ Cranston, PS (1 August 2009). "Insect Biodiversity and Conservation in Australasia" (PDF). Annual Review of Entomology. Annual Reviews. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-112408-085348. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ Duncan, James (1837). Entomology: Foreign Butterflies. Vol. 5. Lizars. pp. 63.
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