Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diesel may not be the way to go. Given the high aromatic content of diesel fuel and its propensity for creating particulates, chemical intuition suggests that it would be surprising if diesel exhaust did not contain appreciable amounts of first-rate carcinogens. As a professor of physical chemistry, I for...
One immense problem is that the primordial fireball destroyed all the evidence; the temperature of the universe in the first seconds of its existence was many trillion degrees. The blast obliterated all that went before. The universe was shrouded in a dense fog of radiation, which only cleared after 1...
But it's risky to theorize too much about Pilobolus. According to Matson, their choreography (always created collectively) proceeds more by intuition than by conceptualization. "Pilobolus goes straight to the heart; watching them, you can put your intellect away for a while," he says. And, both literally and figuratively, they...
"I tried to capture their characteristic pose or feature," Abbott said. "I used my intuition and took as much time as I needed."
In an "equal world," Baldrige believes, the general operating principles are efficiency, kindness and elementary good sense. "Whoever happens to be in the lead opens the door and holds it for the other," she writes. "Whoever first sees the taxi hails it. People emerge from an elevator in a logical...