Another big and ultimately realistic topic is the decision to offer an unlimited downloading service for a flat monthly fee.
He also praised the Hilary Swank subplot as funny and a realistic conversation topic among officemates, although he admitted it was "relegated to almost buffer status" to the main plot.
An overview of some of the developments in string theory over the past two years is given, focusing on four topics: realistic (standard model like) models from string theory, geometric engineering and theories with fluxes, the gauge theory-gravity correspondence, and time dependent backgrounds and string theory.
I thought this was a terrific episode: smart, tense and very realistic on some topics.
"One of the commonplaces of Fitzgerald criticism, for decades, has been that he avoided unpleasant topics and realistic language in his magazine fiction.
Instead, Savchuk and her fellows would insert occasional political rhetoric into a stream of banal posts to keep the blogs realistic, choosing these political topics from a list of five to seven news items about the US, Ukraine and Russia that their superiors gave them each day.
Beyond that, he appears to have a rare gift of being able to dissect half truths, offering realistic takes on complex topics, and somehow allow the listener to find a curious and perhaps unexpected respite with him somewhere in the middle of The Here And Now.
Whether this perception is realistic has been a topic of debate.
His topics, illustrated by realistic images and abstract structures, include U.F.O.'s, time travel, alchemy, the mind-body problem, utopia, relativity and quantum theories, and science-fiction movies like "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
