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This is the kind of insight that other scientists have come to expect of Tabazadeh. As a UCLA graduate student, Tabazadeh made observations about the composition of high- altitude clouds that provided clues enabling scientists to understand why ozone destruction over Antarctica is so much more severe than over the balmier Arctic...
...there was a hidden trick to the calculations that could cut their response time dramatically. A good night's sleep between practice sessions more than doubled--from 23% to 59%--the probability that participants caught on to the trick. In other words, sleep isn't absolutely necessary to gain insight into a problem, but it can be a big help...
...fact, Thompson likes cartoons so much that she has compiled hundreds of her favorites on the subjects of risk and health into a new book called Risk In Perspective: Insight and Humor in the Age of Risk Management...
...knew what music was playing perhaps we could glean some insight into the thoughts and mood of the pod-heads. Do they really think they’re superior, or can the ailment be traced to an abusive past (parents who insisted that talk radio, not music, always be played during road trips...
...Widener for the benefit of a visiting public. Guided visits might lead tourists to the memorial room, the reading room and part of the stacks. Current tours which halt on the steps outside provide tourists with frivolous stories about the founding of the library, but do not offer an insight into its inner workings. Yet it would be crucial to help our guests understand the meaning of a library—how it is not a repository for knowledge so much as a tool for creating new knowledge; how scholars make old texts yield new answers by posing new questions...