Word: explainer
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...them. They also spoke of the negligible help offered by an unarmed, older guard and the lack of a full explanation from the House’s leadership.“What we’re all hoping for is a direct address from the House masters... where they explain exactly their vision for Currier and sort of the reasons why they changed these security measures because that would be treating us like adults and not just imposing things as though we’re kindergartners,” Cleo D. M. Leung ’08 said.Though the Khoshbins...
...Your dad was married eight times. How do you explain that...
...encounter our deep, archetypal humanity. NDEs may very well be a personal encounter with our spirit and even the spirits of our loved ones. NDEs suggest that our spirit is a mysterious force that sustains us through crises and can bedazzle us with experiences we find difficult to explain. Glen Morrison, Lecturer in Theology, University of Notre Dame, Perth...
...follow that genetics, rather than geography or blind luck, caused Europe to industrialize before the rest of the world. Isn't it just as likely that innovations such as the steam engine, and the exploitation of its colonies, made England wealthy? And Clark's social Darwinism doesn't explain why equally stable and sophisticated societies in China and India industrialized at different rates, or how they have managed to become capitalist powerhouses in only a generation. At best, A Farewell to Alms is woefully naive; at worst, willfully reductionist. But Clark is right on a least one point: the industrialized...
...lower dose of additives, which had about the same amount of food coloring as in two 2-oz. (57 g) bags of candy. But even within each age group, some children responded strongly and others not at all. Stevenson's team is looking at how genetic differences may explain the range of sensitivity. One of his colleagues believes that the additives may trigger a release of histamines in sensitive kids. In general, the effects of the chemicals are not so great as to cause full-blown attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Still, the paper warns that "these adverse effects could...