You can see him grappling with concepts that we now know as the urban heat island effect and greenhouse effect.
This leaves open the possibility that we may soon be grappling with concepts like "tract-home cocooning," "time-share cocooning," "split-level cocooning" and "McMansion cocooning".
At a journalism course in Benghazi sponsored by International Media Support, a Danish group, several participants — some of whom have started small newspapers after the revolution — are still grappling with concepts like presenting all sides to a story, avoiding ties to the government, and not being mouthpieces for political groups.
As they grapple with concepts like camaraderie and bravery, they demonstrate courage when it comes to exposing their souls to the camera.
The Angolan government, which likes to pretend we live in a democracy and carefully cultivates that illusion, still grapples with concepts such as "rule of law", "civil liberties", "press freedom", and above all, "freedom of expression".
With its slightly fragmented but still strong radical counterculture, Brixton is an ideal place to live if you want to grapple with concepts of power structures, ethics and resistance.
Increasingly, my youngest daughter's drawings of me – pea-sized head balanced on enormous circular body, lines for limbs – looked less like a four year old trying to grapple with concepts of space and representation in the pre-schematic stage of development than a photorealist portrait.
I just like to contrast it with the cosmic scale of the universe around us". McConaughey says "the film manages to be deeply personal, despite its grandeur" but admits he still grapples with concepts like relativity, gravity, five dimensional time, wormholes and black holes - terms which pepper nearly all his lines.
(I loved the notion that, like a child grappling with fresh concepts, he doesn't have any words for what he just did: "I said something that wasn't" is the best he can manage).
He says most of his viewers are students at other German universities, but — going by comments on his YouTube page — they also include parents of students trying to help their kids, professional engineers grappling with mathematical concepts and a sprinkling of the simply curious.
Students have fun during the simulations, and they immediately begin grappling with the concepts that I am trying to teach, nodding and talking as they learn.
