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Fans of the biorhythmic ebb-and-flow approach to football analysis will pick the Giants this week: they are coming out of a trough just as the Eagles descend from a crest.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2010

In their first biorhythmic year, 1969, Ohmi's drivers achieved a 50% drop in accidents, a downward trend that continued last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos