This article exposes the limitations of simplification as a design choice, explores the cognitive origins of why we often get led astray in making such a design choice, and explores how we might develop a set of practical heuristics to counter the seductiveness of simplicity itself.
Explain to children that many people have different ideas or perspectives about the origin of life, why we're here, the afterlife, and so on.
For those who want a primer, or more insight on the origins of TechCrunch, why he hasn't sold the company yet, why he doesn't think he would make a good CEO, and the value of boat ownership, see the video above.
The Political Origins of Inequality: Why a More Equal World is Better For All of Us is published by University of Chicago Press (£19).
It is crucial for teachers to understand the nature of science in order to be able to explain why appeals to the supernatural are out of place in explaining the origin of life and why scientific research on the origin of life is not intrinsically a threat to faith.
Could this be, with studio policy aiming at recouping profit inside the country of origin, why foreign breakout films were becoming scarce?
An American friend of mine, of Pakistani origin, asks why, in all the commentary that's spewed forth since Saturday, no one has used the word "terrorism".
The researchers say this could be an example of the "cell of origin" idea for why cancers from different parts of the body can look similar — because they arise in the same types of cells.
I think about the Big Bang, and the origin of the universe, and why we are here: Is it finite, or does it go on forever?" "But do you get a feeling of its grandeur?" I asked.
Gunter Wagner and his colleagues (Wagner 2000; Wagner et al. 2000; Wagner and Larsson 2003), for example, maintain that understanding (1) the origin of innovations (novelties), (2) why development is constrained along particular paths, and (3) how new properties emerge in evolution requires an approach that is fundamentally evolutionary (devo evo) rather than developmental (evo devo).
