Sentence examples for which aims to explain from inspiring English sources

"The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history," begins a new book written by two top Google executives, which aims to explain how this experiment will play out in politics, business and even personal lives.

Evolutionary biology, which aims to explain the dynamic process of shaping the diversity of life, has not yet significantly affected thinking in social epidemiology.

Pressures of this kind push us towards the second approach, now orthodox in action theory, which aims to explain both intentional action and intention-with-which in terms of intention as a mental state.

Founders Vivek Shah and George Huo, who were also both early employees at YC startup Cardpool (which sold to Blackhawk Network in late 2011), have built a simple, online health insurance manager and quote engine for small businesses, which aims to explain in plain English what is or isn't working about your current plan and help you identify hidden costs and cost-savings.

Traditionally, biogeography has been divided into two different approaches (Morrone and Crisci 1995): ecological biogeography, the study of the environmental factors shaping the distribution of individual organisms at local spatial scale, and historical biogeography, which aims to explain the geographic distribution of organisms in terms of their evolutionary history.

Examples of such theories include Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954), which aims to explain how people's opinions are influenced within social groups and Cognitive Adaptation Theory (Taylor, 1983), which aims to explain how people cognitively adapt to threatening events.

1.38pm: I don't know about you, but diagrams like this (pdf) posted on the Department of Energy and Climate Change's website, which aim to explain how the green deal works, only seem to further confuse.

In the case of the genetic testing the results are collated in projects like the European Mouse Mutant Archive, and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium IMPCC) which aim to explain and share the functions of genes in mice.

Phil Khalar-Gibson was helping people find their caucus locations and passing out literature at a Fight for 15 ballot initiative launch on Saturday and the "Rawkus Caucus" – a "non-partisan, family friendly event" which aimed to explain the caucus process – in Minneapolis on Sunday.

But the Aristotelian way of framing the question helps him describe choices which he and some of his addressees face in life: whether to retire, or to single-mindedly pursue one's political career (for a discussion of traditional interpretations, which aim to explain Seneca's views on retirement in the context of his biography, see Williams 2003).

Your local bookstore is filled with books like Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs, which aim to explain the kinetics of culture and how they turn into "the ideas and products" that "spread like viruses," to use Gladwell's words.