What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.
— the absurd hypothetical makes us want to read further.
The absurd hypothetical circumvents that problem, by making any topic, no matter how remote, seem engaging.
(It involved artists creating signs advertising absurd hypothetical uses for neglected buildings in New Orleans).
(It involved artists creating signs advertising absurd hypothetical uses for neglected buildings in New Orleans). We decided to give it a try.
"This is an absurd hypothetical with no basis in fact, and it's regrettable that there are newspapers that would print groundless, baseless rumors," said the spokeswoman, Anne Marie Corbalis.
Just for fun, when my turn came I offered an absurd hypothetical name for the drug Plotnase, which sounds like something designed to make a person sink into the mud.
My mind started exploding with absurd hypothetical situations, but despite my increasingly noisy mental chatter, I managed to mutter out, "What's up?" Dennis took a deep breath and started to talk.
Perhaps he realized how absurd his hypothetical scenario sounded.
However absurd and hypothetical, such questions seemed to engage students' minds in a way that simple formulas alone did not.
