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And this is touching the mystery of that goddess, replacing a beautiful coincidence by a beautiful explanation.
The real explanation involves the man who became Canada's leader in 1968, Pierre Trudeau, who is also the father of the current prime minister.
Students see an explanation at their own time and pace?
In every case there's a lot of variation, but something about the environment the people are living in, and I think the only realistic explanation is that it's the degree of waterborne transmission, favored the harmful strains in one place, and mild strains in another.
Physicists are still exploring these and other questions, so we’re far from a complete explanation.
They want to know the answer, and this category allows doctors to treat what would otherwise be untreatable, to explain illnesses that have no explanation.
But in study after study, I've found that a better explanation for many sex differences is really power.
We make an observation, guess an explanation for that observation, and then make a prediction that we can test with an experiment or other observation.
Their guessed explanation was that the Earth must be the center of the universe.
The guessed explanation was gravity, the prediction that everything should fall to the Earth.
We make an observation, we guess an explanation of that observation, and then we make a prediction that we can test.
Therefore, in medicine, after we make a prediction from a guessed explanation, we test it in a population.
But one theoretical explanation proposes a wild solution.
Also, small prey tend to hide in tiny spaces in their natural environments, so one explanation for Grizmo's propensity to reach into containers and openings is that she is compelled by the same curiosity that helped ensure the continuation of her species for millions of years before.
CA: But is one explanation of what's happened in the last year that a group of people have got fed up with, if you like, the liberal elites, for want of a better term, obsessing over many, many different identities and them feeling, "But what about my identity?
And I was like, "OK, smart guys, this is what's happening to me, and if you have an explanation for me, I would love to hear it."
CA: David, there's often this narrative, then, that the sole explanation for Trump's victory and his rise is his tapping into anger in a very visceral way.
So this concept that genes could be marked by our experience, and especially the early life experience, can provide us a unifying explanation of both health and disease.
One explanation for this pattern was a phenomenon that's called "implicit bias" or "unconscious discrimination."
One explanation is that pushing someone to their death feels more personal, activating an emotional aversion to killing another person, but we feel conflicted because we know it's still the logical choice.
While the Standard Model provides a beautiful explanation for the world around us, there is still a universe’s worth of mysteries left to explore.
Well, the standard explanation was once summed up by the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
Another experience, which just like all others, requires explanation.
That was his initial explanation.
Now, the part of her explanation that really messed with my young head was the fact that, according to Ma, long before us, The Green Lady was actually brown, brown like me, and that she changed colors over the years, much like America.
Sorry, no more explanation.
We're put off by big and brash giant posters and capital letters and explanation marks telling us what to do and vying for our attention.
If anyone tells you that there is a single-factor explanation for societal collapses, you know right away that they're an idiot.
And if it gets good enough, it may be accepted by the scientific community, at least provisionally, as a good explanation of what's going on, at least until a better idea or some contradictory evidence comes along.
This model, known as the “hydraulic limitation hypothesis,” is currently our best explanation for why trees have limited heights, even in perfect growing conditions.
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