Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glashow sauntered in, put his feet up on his desk, and began to explain atomic physics...
...professor of physics at Cornell. "We learned a great deal by talking and competing with one another. We'd ride the subway to school together. On the way, one of us would say something like 'Quantum mechanics isn't so hard--I learned it last night,' and then explain whatever he'd read," Glashow said. Not to be outdone, someone else would read about another topic that evening and explain it the following morning. "In this way, we certainly learned the language of physics, although nothing in detail," Glashow said...
...sometimes it's buried, other times exposed on the surface.) Why Cunningham, an older artist working directly from his own sensibility, has come to the same sorts of dance ideas as a younger generation of choreographers--which he in the first place inspired--is a puzzle critics seek to explain. Each era, each time has its invisible current--a pulse the significant artist fuses with...
Journal of Experimental Psychology. show that "the smoker's mind is in the bladder. You just don't need the mind to explain smoking. When plasma nicotine is below the smoker's usual level, he smokes: when it is at his level, he doesn't." Schachter agrees with other researchers who have recommended development of a new high-nicotine, low-tar, low-gas cigarette. Current low-tar, low-nicotine brands, he says, may be lethal. "You wind up spending more, smoking more and getting far more dangerous combustion products for the same nicotine payoff as stronger...
This was one attempt to explain how blacks could be strong and cohesive and yet still be slaves...