As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.

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We smelled a scam in there somewhere, or possibly scamola, and since our whiny emails to the company asking them to explain how exactly this worked went unanswered, we decided to just call them up to try and sort things out.

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Explain to me kind of the difference of how things played out in Ghana as opposed to Zimbabwe in some recent elections and what roles journalists played in that?

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"There are just things in this game, no matter how you try to explain them, they defy explanation, " Ryan said, shrugging away Wisconsin's long run against Indiana.

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While it provides insights into booms and their ending, it fails to explain why things must end quite so badly, or how to escape when they do.

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Few things do more to fulfill that need than asking people to explain their point of view and how they arrived at it.

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