Artistic interpolation is the process of creating new work by re-recording or recreating a recognizable part of a pre-existing piece, such as a melody, rhythm, or lyric. Unlike sampling, which uses a direct snippet from the original recording, interpolation involves re-recording the musical idea to give artists more creative freedom. It is also a technique used in digital art and computer graphics to create new visuals or movements from existing data.

For this debate, being born into “old money” means being born into a family which has been wealthy for many generations, while being someone who will become “new money” means being born as someone whose family is not wealthy, but who will themselves become wealthy as an adult. 

A Harberger tax is an asset-taxing system where (i) owners of assets set their own sale prices for assets, (ii) they must pay a recurring tax that is a fixed percentage of that self-assessed value each year, and (iii) they are legally required to sell their assets to anyone who is willing to pay the sale price they choose (even if they'd prefer not to sell).

Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) are large healthcare systems under unified corporate control which generally comprise of various sites of care including hospitals, clinics, private practices, and pharmacies. In the last 15 years, large IDNs have been growing largely through acquisitions of additional sites of care. IDNs often use their size to negotiate for lowered drug prices for specific drugs within a class (i.e., they may negotiate discounts for 2 out of 5 drugs to treat a particular disease) and may have rules about what procedures are considered clinically appropriate and necessary for patients, which often influences physicians’ treatment decisions.

By weight, about 43% of global seafood (e.g., fish, crustaceans) is harvested through wild-capture marine fishing (i.e., captured from seas and oceans).

A “stance-independent fact” is a fact that is true even if some people were to think otherwise (e.g., “the Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on Earth” or “the current capital of India is New Delhi”).

For this debate, moral realism is the view that there are stance-independent facts about morality, i.e., objectively true facts about what actions are right and wrong or what states of the world are good and bad.

Involuntary interventions are informal, often family-led or friend-led, interventions to prevent suspected cult members from continuing in cults. They often involve trapping or coercing the subject to stay with the family for a number of days.