Several hundred scientists from across the globe will gather in Ludwigshafen, Germany, next week to discuss a simple topic: "A hundred years of the synthesis of ammonia".
In truth the magic of the show often comes from the deviation and how a simple topic such as "Suduko" or "Chickens" can be spun into a wild story – the latter involving Ozzy Osbourne going on tour with Colonel Sanders in the hands of Ross Noble.
The tests were administered in groups of three or four people, with students given a simple topic such as "plans after graduation", or "the best age to get married".
Trying to tackle "trans issues," as though that were somehow a simple topic, with a token character in a one-off episode generally ends up being problematic at best and outright harmful at worst, and this episode was no exception.
To better illustrate the significance of this result, let us compare it with the prediction of a simple topic model.
This is clearly not a simple topic.
A simple topic guide was used to faciliate the focus group discussions.
Assessment of consciousness during epileptic seizures is generally not a simple topic; it is individually different, not always global, and "pieces" of consciousness (perception, cognition, responsiveness, memory function, motor performance) can be altered [ 10].
Start with the easiest and simplest topic possible and build in complexity from there.
Toward the end of his career, the versatile Neruda turned to simple forms on simple topics—namely, his Odas elementales (1954; Elementary Odes), in which he sings the praises of an artichoke, wood, and the like.
