h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nice article - I enjoyed it. I have heard that `Virtuous Circles` are the opposite of vicious ones and `Deja Brew` is the feeling that you have had a drink before

Hurrah! What a thoroughly informative and entertaining entry. I too add my congratulations on a splendid article. More please!

Thank you all

I promise to do my best


As to the virtuous circle... yes it *does* exist. I just stumbled over a posting from Paul H, written when this piece was featured by the Post (as A596766):


...The term "Virtuous circle" was coined about 4 years ago to indicate a situation in which one good thing leads to another. My information comes from a website called "The Word Spy," which uses "virtuous circle" in the context of an article in "The Economist." When a country's economy grows fast, more wealth is generated, so people's savings grow even if they don't cut consumption.
With savings at higher levels, investment and growth rise, leading to
a virtuous circle.




'deja brew' heeehee I'll try that one now!

Have to agree, 's a very nice article.

Well done!

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Rags-to-riches, and Pygmalion, are virtuous circle styles of fiction.

Certain biological (enzyme vs hormone are the kinds I am thinking of, but the immune system seems to have its own set) processes rely on a self reinforcing positive feedback loops, and are called cascades.

Inorganically, is a catalyst acting as a virtuous circle for the particular reaction it fosters?

Oh, nice examples!

(somewhat late, but finally it all resolves into beauty and sunshine )


Bossel

Thank you Sir Bossel. But my examples embarass us in that there is no one vocabulary word that means 'the opposite of a viscious circle' in general. The coinage virtuous circle may have to stick.