Word: complexity
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...sense something? Tett eventually found herself covering the biggest financial story in a generation. Fool's Gold tells how a team at J.P. Morgan popularized credit derivatives, then pulled back worriedly just before the rest of the banking world was nearly destroyed by them. The physics of finance is complex, but Tett explains the world of derivatives as well as any book for lay readers ever...
Being social isn't for dummies. Animals that gather into packs, herds or troops - never mind into cities and countries - need to be smart. How else to negotiate the complex rules and hierarchies of their cultures? It's not for nothing that sharks, among the dimmest of the large carnivores, are loners, or that humans - far and away the smartest - are so enthusiastically collectivist...
...region of the brain connected with aggression and competition and less in the region that tempers those tendencies - which better equips them for the socially competitive world into which they're born. Females have more heft in the neocortex, a higher-order region that wires them for complex tasks like nurturing and reading social cues. Again, it's not clear whether brain size drove traits or vice versa, but they do appear linked...
...does this new album fit into the evolution of Marilyn Manson? Track two is called "Pretty as a Swastika." It's something I said to a girl because of her complexion - with black hair, red lips and pale skin. I mean, it was a complex and poetic comment that soon led to intercourse, so I felt no reason for it to be seen as confusing, hateful and destructive. The record label [told me], Take it off the album. Rather than do so, I decided to produce it on the inside of the sleeve with a different name...
...book of verse, Darwin: A Life in Poems. Even before Padel, the naturalist's great-great-granddaughter, wove together fragments of Charles Darwin's writings to create her acclaimed poetic biography, she cited his ideas as an inspiration. "Darwin loved form; he's always saying he loved the rich, complex forms of what he looked at. And that's so like poetry, and that's what I like about poetry too," she told an interviewer. (See pictures marking the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth...