Word: rationale
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Your story on longevity did not mention the issue of ageism. Throughout America, otherwise rational people are undergoing cosmetic nips and tucks and spending billions on "anti-aging" drugs and treatments. No wonder many of our elderly are depressed and suicidal. Everywhere they go, they hear the message "Old is...
Seurat was steeped in the work of color theorists like Michel-Eug?ne Chevreul, who held that each color gives off a halo of its complementary color and that adjoining dots of different hue would be blended by the eye. Adjacent spots of blue and yellow, for instance, would create a...
“The rational numbers 1/8, 1/32, 1/96, 5/1536...that occur on the right-hand sides of these formulas are remarkably ubiquitous in mathematics and the mathematical sciences: they pop up in contexts ranging from power series for trig functions, to black-body radiation in physics, to abstruse mathematical...
an approximate relationship to the melodies on which they're based. But like the craze for plastic mobile-phone covers, ring tones are more about making a personal fashion statement. "You're not buying a ring tone to enjoy Christina Aguilera," says Ovum analyst Dario Betti. "You're buying it...
Though most jurors thought there had been abusive incidents, many were reluctant to dismiss their doubts. But each was a tough, rational New Yorker through and through, determined to stick it out until we reached the right verdict. After a while we cajoled the bailiffs into getting us coffee and...