To put it more bluntly, he is a consummate showman who, dealing with uncomfortable and abstruse material, knows how to hook us and keep us hooked.
Most teachers know their material and know how to teach it to prepared students, but administrative fiats like social promotion and tools like student evaluations of teachers have obliterated the concept of meaningful grades and meaningful progress.
For the production of nanoparticles, one needs to know the physical and chemical principles of nanoscale materials and also know how to commercialize them.
The company applied its materials know-how to making tiny circuit boards for early digital watches.
The company did not have state permission to compost its waste materials and did not know how to properly compost animal tissue, a method called mortality composting.
The Department of Homeland Security has asked Jenness to prepare training materials so Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers know how to deal with trans inmates.
The proper tools are needed and the proper materials are needed to know how to do it.
As a man who has regularly plumbed the depths for column material but doesn't know how to plumb a sink to get rid of even worse material, I recently faced a flood of problems that threatened to turn the laundry room into a scene from "Titanic".
"That is really the greatest challenge, because many scientists can come up with new materials for certain applications, … but if they don't know how these materials are going to be placed in the body and interact with the cells, interact with biological fluids and so on, they have no appreciation of the total problem," Peppas says.
Simply typing in a name is akin to using Google: you may turn up material, but unless you know how to fit it all together, it's next to worthless.
"It is difficult to see how those who wrote that story up in the UK and the US and the two editors could possibly pretend that they did not know how that material was obtained how that material was obtained and that there had been criminality involved in securing that photo.
