He offered a novel explanation why.
Last December, researchers published a novel explanation in The Journal of Theoretical Biology.
"I'm well behaved, but my eyes don't always open at the right time," is his novel explanation for his tardiness.
The speech, titled "The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit," offered a novel explanation for the rapid rise of the U.S. trade deficit in the early 21st century.
Over the course of three weeks, Everett wrote what would become his Cultural Anthropology article, twenty-five thousand words in which he advanced a novel explanation for the many mysteries that had bedevilled him.
Meanwhile a third group of researchers, resurrecting a suggestion of Darwin, has come up with a novel explanation of why humans lost their body hair in the first place.
Last month the boss of Men's Wearhouse provided a novel explanation for a big quarterly drop in profit, saying that the 13 in 2013 was causing suspicious brides (not grooms) to postpone their wedding plans until next year.
When you get right down to it, "Capital In the Twenty-first Century" is proving so successful because it illuminates one of the great issues of our time, rising inequality, and provides a simple but novel explanation for it — one with alarming implications for the future.
In the same 2001 e-mail, one of many that New York State's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, has been reviewing as part of his inquiry into Citigroup's research practices, Mr. Grubman set forth a novel explanation as to why Mr. Weill wanted him to reconsider his AT&T rating in the first place.
They can see I'm running around crazy, and they stand at the bar and look at me like, Have you forgotten about me?" Mr. Bartels at the Red Cat, who like many bartenders enjoys eating at bars himself, had a novel explanation for the bar dining phenomenon.
In spite of a good deal of analogy-hunting ("as the match ground on, Nixon became engaged in his own desperate game of chess making move after move to save his presidential skin," they observe, to no particular purpose), the authors do not come up with a novel explanation for why the match was the worldwide sensation it was.
