Other works, positing even more otherworldly notions, seem glib at best.
A stark "Frontline" on PBS on Tuesday posits an even more basic answer: Haiti needs most of all to re-establish the rule of law.
The great value of traditional gay male culture, he further posits, perhaps even more challengingly, "resides in some of its most despised and repudiated features: gay male femininity, diva worship, aestheticism, snobbery, drama, adoration of glamour, caricature of women and obsession with the figure of the mother".
Another even more unlikely story posits that the vibrations from an industrial mixer caused chocolate stored on a shelf in the Toll House kitchen to fall into a vat of cookie dough as it was being mixed.
This contrasts the broadly regarded theory of cognitive dissonance, which posits that individuals tend to stick even more to their views when they are faced with opposing ones.
Xun Gu recognizes the importance of selection for robustness to misfolding (I am not sure it is advisable to denote this effect "translational selection", a term that usually applies to selection operating at the codon choice level) but posits that functional pleiotropy is an even more critical factor.
Sandberg's TED talk, even more explicitly than her book, posited the revolutionary potential of women's empowerment at the highest levels: of a hundred and eighty heads of state, she noted, only nine were women.
As important as these observations are, says STScI theorist Mario Livio, they're too preliminary to rule out theories such as quintessence, which posits a changing strength of dark energy, or something even more exotic.
Buzzfeed gives even more incentive for that glass of Merlot, positing, "Wine drinkers [have] lower mortality rates than beer or spirit drinkers". If that doesn't convince you to host a night with the girls, then what will?
Making the situation even more awkward is the FCC's own recently issued media review, which posits the need for more localism and more diversity.
