Word: explainers
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During an informal dining hall interview, the team of Bulter and Seru explain the basics of the Seneca--almost as if they have given this speech a dozen times before...
Sprawl is understandable, maybe even unavoidable, in countries where the population is still growing rapidly. But it is more difficult to explain in the U.S. and other rich countries with lower birthrates. In Ohio the amount of land developed around urban areas between 1960 and 1990 grew more than five times as fast as the population...
Super-refrigerators use 87% less electricity than older, standard models while costing the same (assuming mass production) and performing better, as Paul Hawken and Amory and L. Hunter Lovins explain in their book Natural Capitalism. In Amsterdam the headquarters of ING Bank, one of Holland's largest banks, uses one-fifth as much energy per square meter as a nearby bank, even though the buildings cost the same to construct. The ING center boasts efficient windows and insulation and a design that enables solar energy to provide much of the building's needs, even in cloudy Northern Europe...
Second, these private censors are working to create a legal climate in which every attempt to resist censorship, explain how censorship functions or even subject censorware to normal consumer protection principles, is prohibited. These aren't free speech issues, the lawyers for the new corporate censors say, but simple problems of "copyright infringement" or "trade secrets...
...motion the formation of the penis and testes. In adolescence, boys undergo another eruption that deepens their voices, causes hair to form on their bodies and allows their muscles to enlarge. Testosterone in the blood of teenage boys can jump to as high as 2,000 nanograms, which helps explain teenage boys...