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The rebellion was _____________ one, driven less by ardor than by reason and calculation.
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_____________ neuroscience's explanatory power, Patricia Churchland maintains that questions that have been discussed to no effect by philosophers over many centuries are solvable once rephrased as questions of neuroscience.
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Children will often present their egocentric frustrations with appeals to objective standards of fairness; doing so does not indicate duplicity but rather the fact that, for many children, private sufferings and social imbalances are _____________.
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The membership of the two clubs being _____________, no one had a member's perspective on both.
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The overall message of this book on neuroscience is (i) _____________: the brain is quite (ii) _____________, and therefore damaged brains can be healed, aging brains can be rejuvenated, and even ordinarily healthy brains can be made faster and better.
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When in 1980 the father and son pair of Louis and Walter Alvarez and their colleagues linked the end Cretaceoure extinction to a catastrophic extraterrestrial impact, they were met with skepticism by most paleontologists, which was (i) _____________ given that geological training since the mid-1800s had emphasized the primacy of (ii) _____________.
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The novel's heroine shows a remarkable (i) _____________ to worship at the altar of youth; in her world, youth is (ii) _____________ , while age, by contrast, confers competence and wisdom.
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The potential (i) _____________ exploiting mineral resources in the area combined with (ii) participation among local people in conservation efforts may lead to a (iii) _____________ human appreciation for the landscape and eventually contribute to disadvantageous effects for conservation.
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Those who initially recorded American Indian oral stories often _____________ them when they wrote them down; the subsequent publishers of American Indian stories, therefore, are not the first to affect the meaning of the text.
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_____________ the idea that attention is a limited resource, scientists have repeatedly observed that drivers using mobile phones are slower to react and more apt to miss important details than are drivers focused solely on road.
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Meteorology is one of the few fields of applied science that demands prediction; since prediction involves considerable uncertainty and uncertainty is _____________ scientists, meteorology will continue to exist in a fraught intellectual space.
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The concept of the Hellenistic period in ancient history has proved useful but also _____________, with scholars disagreeing on the dates when the period began and ended.
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In the nineteenth century, geology became so respected among middle-class Britons that the science came to be seen as _____________, a yardstick by which other disciplines measured their scientific rigor and imaginative power.
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The movie has a surfeit of inscrutable characters and tortuous subplots, so it is no surprise that viewers appeared _____________.
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Seemingly to compensate for the (i) _____________ nature of her subject, in her review the theater critic (ii) _____________ a casual chatty style.
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Defying expectation, the electorate seems poised to (i) _____________ a number of political tenets so (ii) _____________ that they are often paraded as fact.
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Some critics claim that because medical journals receive (i) _____________ selection of findings from clinical trials—mainly those trials that show (ii) _____________ results for the drugs being tested—readers of those journals believe that some medications are more (iii) _____________ than they really are, even when those medications are little more than placebos.
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Among chess aficionados, there have been many doomsday scenarios about people (i) _____________ the game as a result of the superiority of computer chess programs over human players. Others have replied to this with variations on the theme of how we still hold footraces despite cars going much faster, but this analogy is (ii) _____________ since cars do not help humans run faster while chess computers undoubtedly have an effect on the (iii) _____________ of human chess.
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The tools of science are so specialized that we accept them as a kind of _____________ machinery for producing knowledge: we know that they work, but cannot explain why.
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If satellite images predicting outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in the Horn of Africa were to lead to vaccination campaigns five months in advance, monitoring of such images could potentially _____________ epidemics in both livestock and people.
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