Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Snow used to prove his point by asking literary intellectuals to explain the Second Law of Thermodynamics. They usually couldn't, even though, as Snow pointed out, to a scientist this would be like not having read a work of Shakespeare...
...company's slogan. Its product, styled GeneWorld 2.0, "gives you the industrial-strength capacity you need when sequence data production exceeds analytical throughput." (Don't you hate it when that happens?) @Large's first product, Sasson says with a smile, is "one of the simplest for marketing people to explain." And he's right, sort of. It's software that enables employees to file expense reports on a corporate intranet. (What's an intranet? Ask Trent Lott.) The sales brochure promises a "Thin Client" with "Rich Java GUI," which sounds like it's pushing a dietetic dessert...
...Social Security payment was McVeigh's enemy? The veteran applying for a Veterans Administration loan was his enemy? Parking a van loaded with explosives in front of a day-care center and blowing up 19 babies? No amount of psychobabble and stories about McVeigh's childhood can explain an act so heinous. ERICA PASCAL Chicago...
...does Skuse explain the existence of sensitive men and insensitive (but non-Turner's) women? He doesn't. A social gene, he says, only sets the stage; how the players turn out depends on their environment. Even girls with Turner's syndrome can be taught social skills, he says. "But one has to recognize why they're not very good at them in the first place...
...holds up, Skuse's theory might also explain why boys are more likely than girls to develop autism and attention-deficit disorder--conditions that involve difficulties in interacting with others. But until those social genes can be isolated, Skuse's theory remains just a theory...