Word: noodler
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Life settled down to better than chaos only in the early 17th century, when French noodler Rene Descartes saved the day with a trick for thinking things through without screwing up: doubt what isn't self-evident, and reduce every problem to its simplest components. It is these twin tools of methodical doubt and reductionism that allow the editors of TIME to produce this special section on invention. Because what Descartes began may now be coming to its final flowering...
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