Still, fleeting recoveries like my father's — reported anecdotally but little understood — are a gift.
The majority of those that can be understood are cultic in nature.
Essentially, the edifices of privacy that we once thought we understood are melting like ice in a heatwave.
According to the researchers, all 27 genes on the Y chromosome, nearly half of which are poorly understood, are acted on by purifying selection.
Too often, relationships that are far from being understood are assumed to reflect a particular, strong causal connection, leading to no end of regulatory mistakes.
The characters are now in a realm where the rules they thought they understood are constantly changing, reality doesn't entirely make sense, and there's a feeling that all bets are off.
Last week the 27-year-old's ITV performance was carefully scrutinised by executives from the Fox television network who, it is understood, are "very likely" to sign up Cole at Cowell's behest.
Allan Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind" (1987), still an influential filleting of university life, features on its last page this thought: "I still believe that universities, rightly understood, are where community and friendship can exist in our times..
Concepts so understood are things we can understand.
Events, so understood, are the relata of causation.
Less understood are the mechanisms by which such networks emerge.
