They will explain many more situations than there is room for here.
ThIs article originally appeared on VICE US.
Tales of the supernatural and spirits is common practice in the islands by people of all generations and are used to explain many of the more unusual events.
That would explain why many more twins are conceived than born, and why those born are so rare (though more common these days, with the rise of IVF).
Heliocentrism was not a popular idea 300 years ago -- ask Galileo -- but it is now the standard explanation for the relationship of the earth to the sun because it explains so many more observations than any other theory.
Dr. Jane Petro, a professor of plastic surgery at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., is one who thinks "the Pygmalion angle" helps explain why many more men than women are drawn to the field.
Improved methods of detection and monitoring may explain why many more infested areas have been discovered since 2000.
At one point, he explained that so many more babies survive childbirth now that natural selection, as proposed by Charles Darwin, cannot act on humans to favor infants with traits that are beneficial today or to weed out those with adaptations that impair survival.
Okun explained there were many more "horrific" or "amazing" concepts, but it made sense that the robot would assume a familiar human shape.
Meanwhile, the Beatles explain why so many more Americans seem to know of the existence of Liverpool than Birmingham.Anyway, as I explain in a piece in the print edition this week, Manchester has both and it also has a particularly effective form of local government.
