Word: detailism
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...most of the audience going to this type of documentary comes in to the theater knowing the conclusion, the film focuses on the people rather than the numbers, casting the entire story as a “human tragedy.” With careful attention to detail, “Enron” documents the stories of the fresh young traders corrupted by the system, the trusting investors fleeced for all they were worth, and the executives possessed of a seemingly bottomless greed...
Several FAS professors, wary of breaking with this tradition, want Kirby to explain in detail the purpose of the survey...
...year-olds, the show profiles some of the projects that Einstein's successors are working on, such as an electronic nose that can sniff your breath to make a medical diagnosis, and tiny robots that may soon navigate your bloodstream. tel: (44-870) 870 4868; www.einsteinyear.org "The detail of Einstein's physics can be tricky, but you don't need to understand it to appreciate the effect that his work has on our lives," says Caitlin Watson, program organizer of Britain's Einstein Year events. "Computers, iPods, mobile phones all came about because of Einstein's work on the photoelectric...
...industrial tax rates. Video games, Johnson notes, impel us to learn because playing them means not just following rules but also discovering what the rules are. And these rules can be staggeringly complicated. Johnson unpacks the nested objectives of just one segment of a Zelda video game with enough detail to bury the canard that it is "passive" entertainment...
...goal is to use this information to understand in more detail the molecular mechanism by which Ebola virus uses cell surface enzymes to invade cells,” Cunningham wrote...