He distills his knowledge in a charming and unassuming work packed with fascinating detail, showing us, among many other things, that our instinctive beliefs about six-legged creatures are at best patronizing and often dead wrong.
What Mr. Crystal, widely regarded as a leading authority on linguistics, has done is to assume the role of a master distiller of knowledge who takes the whole subject of language and pours it into 73 clearly labeled bottles all beginning with the word "How" — as in, "How we use tone of voice," "How children learn to mean," "How conversation works".
Dr. Tatiana distills her encyclopedic knowledge of evolutionary science into a pithy, witty response to each bewildered creature, explaining the latest thinking on why it is reasonable to believe that the behavior inquired about evolved by natural selection.
2. Reduced vulnerabilities through increases in community empowerment (community capacities) There is a large health promotion literature on community empowerment and capacity building that distills to improving the knowledge, analytical skills, local leadership, internal and external resource mobilization, and organizing abilities of disadvantaged communities (12– 12).
"How successful you're going to be as a professional explorer is a function of how well you can share the experience with others — the visceral adventure of it and the wisdom and knowledge you can distill out of it," said Dan Buettner, a Minneapolis-based cyclist who turned epic journeys from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and around the perimeter of Africa into an adventure-fueled education company.
"Falstaff," Verdi's last opera, distills a lifetime of musical knowledge into a kind of eau de vie, a clear, mood-elevating essence.
Cops trade in epigrammatic knowledge; one deputy distills four hours of training on blood-borne pathogens into, "If it's wet and not yours, don't touch it".
A long sake list is seen to by a lanky sake sommelier, Saori Iino, who is able to distill any diner's limited sake knowledge into a satisfying choice.
When you get the smartest people in technology to distill a year's worth of knowledge into hour-long talks and minute-long chats, the less informed masses are brought up to speed.
According to Foster, the brief distills the intricate and detailed scientific knowledge of the monograph into information that educated laypeople can use to put concerns about the potential for DEHP toxicity into perspective.
