What are ologies?

Kymatology: is the study of fluid mechanics. It is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.  It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, and biomedical engineering, geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, and biology.

Ludology: is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them. It is a field of cultural studies that deals with all types of games throughout history. This field of research utilizes the tactics of, at least, folkloristics and cultural heritage, sociology, and psychology while examining aspects of the design of the game, the players in the game, and the role the game plays in its society or culture. Game studies is oftentimes confused with the study of video games, but this is only one area of focus; in reality, game studies encompass all types of gaming, including sports, board games, etc.

Myrmecology: is a branch of entomology focusing on the scientific study of ants. Some early myrmecologists considered ant society as the ideal form of society and sought to find solutions to human problems by studying them.

Nematology: is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of nematodes, or roundworms. Although nematological investigation dates back to the days of Aristotle or even earlier, nematology as an independent discipline has its recognizable beginnings in the mid to late 19th century.

Omnology: is the study of everything or all that exists; the opposite of nothing, or its complement. It is the totality of things relevant to some subject matter. Without expressed or implied limits, it may refer to anything.

Psychopharmacology: is the scientific study of the effects drugs have on mood, sensation, thinking, behavior, judgment and evaluation, and memory. It is distinguished from neuropsychopharmacology, which emphasizes the correlation between drug-induced changes in the functioning of cells in the nervous system and changes in consciousness and behavior.

Ripperology: is the study of the unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.

Scatology: is an obsession with excretion or excrement, or the study of such obsessions. It allows one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been), health, and diseases such as tapeworms.

Topology: is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself.

Ufology: is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors). While there are instances of government, private, and fringe science investigations of UFOs, ufology is generally regarded by skeptics and science educators as a canonical example of pseudoscience.

Vexillology: is the study of the history, symbolism, and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general. The word is a synthesis of the Latin word vexillum (which refers to a kind of square flag which was carried by Roman cavalry) and the Greek suffix -logia (“study”). The first known usage of the word vexillology was in 1959.

Xylology: is the branch of science that deals with the study of woody plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas), specifically, their taxonomic classifications.

Zymology: is an applied science that studies the biochemical process of fermentation and its practical uses. Common topics include the selection of fermenting yeast and bacteria species and their use in brewing, winemaking, fermenting milk, and the making of other fermented foods.

Kibology: is a parody religion created by Parry, the central figure. Practitioners of Kibology are called ‘Kibologists’ or (sometimes more disdainfully) ‘Kibozos’. Parry began Kibology about 1989. In its early Usenet^[1] days it was centered in the newsgroups talk.bizarre and alt.slack, until the creation of alt.religion.kibology in late 1991. The religious satire of Kibology shares tenets of other parody religions, including similar concepts to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Invisible Pink Unicorn.

Doylesspaceology: is the study of the doyletatum.com blog site and all the posts therein. The reading of each and every post put forth on a daily basis.