Anatomy and physiology are elegantly explained, not as abstract theory, but as counterpoint to gripping stories about survival against the odds: in frozen rivers, flaming cockpits, bombs, viral pandemics, deep water or outer space.
For one thing, unlike Newtonian physics and Einstein's relativity, which elegantly explained the behavior of everything from the fall of apples to the motion of galaxies, quantum theory offered only probabilities for various outcomes, not rock-solid predictions.
Mendes elegantly explained that, "as you would have noticed" (which, as I say, I'm not sure we had), Sam Troughton had suffered total vocal loss, the first time that the director had ever known that to happen.
Jia Tolentino elegantly explained how women use the whisper network to warn one another about dangerous men; for a gay equivalent, I'd love to have the nerve to call it a lisping network, but I wonder if a better term might be the network that dare not speak its name.
Duke gave an interview to NPR in 2015 in which she elegantly explained three types of men she often encountered at card tables: disrespectful chauvinists (men who patronized women), flirting chauvinists (men who sexualized women), and angry chauvinists (men who hated women).
Later, electrochemical theory developed, including reaction kinetics, leading to the mixed potential theory, which elegantly explained uniform corrosion phenomena.
Steven Conn W. E. Smith Professor of History Miami University Oxford, Ohio Sanneh elegantly explains how college liberals clash with free-speech hawks over what kinds of speech deserve protection.
It describes two forces that began warping New York City in the early eighties, neither of them musical, and it elegantly explains how a period of artistic flourishing was squashed.
Hobhouse, a veteran garden historian and designer, elegantly explains the continuity of the aesthetic ideas that govern Persian gardens, with their rills of water and tree-lined alleys underplanted with roses and violets.
And Klosterman's account of Tastee Freezes as "iconic structures in the rural Midwest" that "prove your community does not have enough of a population to sustain a Dairy Queen" or "an ice cream facility with indoor seating" elegantly explains why the assonant phrase "outside the Tastee Freeze" sounds so right in songs by John Mellencamp and Trisha Yearwood.
Metcalfe is the author of a law that elegantly explains the exponential power of networked computers.
