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Now our current explanation of seasons is that the Earth's axis is tilted like that, so each hemisphere tilts towards the sun for half the year, and away for the other half.
That's a good explanation: hard to vary, because every detail plays a functional role.
But now, the fact that it's also a good explanation, hard to vary, makes the crucial difference.
And it's only when an explanation is good that it even matters whether it's testable.
And the second part of the explanation is that she suffered an incredibly unlikely event.
The other explanation is that she was guilty.
I gave him what I thought was a brilliant explanation of the political situation and explained how hard and difficult the war will be.
And I think one explanation for this could be going back to the molting phenomenon.
That's the only explanation.
Your brain is searching to find an explanation for those sensations in your body that you experience as wretchedness, just like you did with the blobby image.
The writer, Thomas Frank, says that this might be a kind of explanation why some voters vote against their best interests, that voters, like a lot of us, assume, that if they hear something that sounds like it's sincere, that it's coming from the gut, that it's passionate, that it's more authentic.
Now this simple rule is not an explanation of clouds.
There was of course an explanation for it: We only see the big planets, so that's why most of those planets are really in the category of "like Jupiter."
The usual explanation was, well, it's all going to go to my partner anyway.
In response, he gave me an even more courteous version of the same explanation.
And then I find this: "All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition that the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in this central fact."
Well, the sense of which I agree with him, except I think it has an evolutionary explanation.
Notice both halves of that explanation.
When these economists were trying to figure out what tasks machines could not do, they imagined the only way to automate a task was to sit down with a human being, get them to explain to you how it was they performed a task, and then try and capture that explanation in a set of instructions for a machine to follow.
He published it in the form of two floppy disks, at a time where floppy disks genuinely were floppy, and his approach was the same as the economists': sit down with a lawyer, get her to explain to you how it was she solved a legal problem, and then try and capture that explanation in a set of rules for a machine to follow.
Yet time and again, when we are offered a simple and honest explanation like the one Rich offered Kathy, we reject it.
There is no breakup explanation that's going to feel satisfying.
And, as usual in thrillers, the assassin doesn't kill the heroes, giving as his only lame explanation that they were not on the list of those to be killed, as though every other innocent bystander he shot was.
I noticed that females under 18 rated the movie the highest, and the only explanation is that they ogled over Burns the whole time.
There comes a time in a film when ambiguity can just be frustrating because the viewer is led on a wild goose chase that ends at a dead end with little explanation at what we just saw..it ultimately feels like an exhausting exercise instead of a thrilling psycho-drama.
Simple enough explanation Micahel likes to kill his relatives that would suffice, but no we have to have a man in black and mysterious cults and signs of Thor and utter crap.
This explanation of their abrupt, abrasive dispositions is unsatisfactorily extraneous and merely serves to highlight the complicated ends the films unwavering supporters will go to to defend their positions regarding a film unfortunately short on sense.
The only explanation for this movie is that someone needed to take a huge tax deduction and figured they'd combine it with a shot at hosting a casting couch.
The film "Chaos" takes its name from Gleick's 1988 pop science explanation of chaos theory.
The only explanation I can think of for the good reviews it received from some here is that they were written by people in the cast.
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