Word: explainer
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...genetic research helps explain why some smokers respond better to certain smoking-cessation programs than others, according to scientists at Duke University and the National Institute on Drug Abuse...
...honors). But in recent years, the department has made the concentration tougher, requiring calculus and econometrics on top of statistics, and the number of concentrators has gone up, not down. The grading curves in core economics courses are also among the toughest on campus. Herding, moreover, fails to explain the fact that economics is a leading major at virtually all liberal arts institutions. Something more fundamental must be at work...
...third possibility is that Harvard economics faculty and teaching fellows are particularly brilliant classroom teachers who outshine even their Harvard colleagues in other departments. Nice thought, but it doesn’t explain the popularity of economics over time or at other universities...
...Today, Diamond continues to demonstrate daring, though of a different sort, combining the study of evolutionary biology, physiology, and geography to explain our world and history...
...Which helps explain why her campaign, as it begins to shut down, has spent so much time been searching plaintively for factors - the rules, the media, latent sexism - to explain the outcome. One party operative laid some of the inability to see reality at the former president's feet. "He's never lost. I mean, there have been times when he hasn't won. But as far as he's concerned, he's never lost. And so this has to be explained somehow...