Perhaps harder to explain are the less glamorous fixtures.
Liquid crystals, David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin explain, are a fourth state of matter.
These poems, we explain, are learned desk jobs, not the outpourings of the white heat of passion.
Hostesses, Italian convention organizers explain, are part of the subtle art of Italian business hospitality, where a "bella presenza" brings pleasure and prestige.
Broadly speaking, any returns that these variables can't explain are attributed to alpha, and are thereby assumed to be generated by the skill and expertise of the hedgies.
If the Inuit (as the intertitles explain) are driven to hunting walrus from sheer hunger, can't the man with the movie camera (and the rifle) help them out?
First, the very differences in behaviour they wish to explain are stereotypes – "women are more empathic than men" – and then any sex differences that turn up on a brain scan are invoked to explain them.
Jealously and possessiveness, she goes on to explain, are the two big signs to watch for; that and the man who seems charming one minute and terrifying the next.
What they cannot explain are the sudden price spikes and falls, which mirror the entry and exit of speculative hot money, which has increased the price of commodities and seriously increased volatility.
Another image from the series, "Competitive Girl," inspired a second doll series, called "Small Talents" — which, Davis & Davis explain, are "photographs of found dolls as would-be talent show contestants seen at the beginning, middle or end of their performances".
Carruth fulfills the basic premise of science-fiction, to tether the impossible to rational explanations — but the impossible results that he seeks to explain are of the sort that are commonly taken to be religious.
