Of course, you aren't going to get club dancing, bum-revolving,
handwaving stuff it's got to be more Riverdance if you want the pad to pick up your steps and score.
The Razz: CYBER GROOVE
The epitome of
handwaving? Larval feeding and hypotheses of metazoan phylogeny.
Egg energetics, fertilization kinetics, and population structure in echinoids with facultatively feeding larvae
But there is no such thing as magic--only misdirection,
handwaving to draw the eye here while something prosaic and comprehensible is happening there.
Size matters: the science of the very small produces quite a small book
It left the former Manchester United player in obvious,
handwaving pain on the floor, but he was able to continue after a couple of minutes' treatment.
Football: Capitulation confirms scale of year's decline; Everton 0 Bolton 4
What is understandably heartening for Gardner is that new discoveries in neuroscience have finally substantiated MI theory, providing what Gardner called "biological evidence" for a theory for which, when it debuted in the early 1980s, "there was little relevant evidence from genetics or evolutionary psychology; such speculations [as MI Theory] were mere
handwaving." (27) He ended his address with this reflection:
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences: musical intelligence
The biggest glossy-eyed
handwaving we see is on the cost of operation of these aircraft.
Electric aircraft: this idea has legs: we have the technology today to move two people for two hours at 85 MPH or better. But it's too early to know real-world safety, utility, reliability and costs
The Arsenal boss' act of
handwaving histrionics every time there is a perceived injustice against the Gunners lends itself perfectly to the cheeky chant and jig that the Bluenoses created during last weekend's 1-1 draw.
Doing the 'Wenger' is Gunner catch on
Like Buffy's vampires), and while it starts off as science fiction with aliens and invasions and memories of spaceships, it soon lurches into vague
handwaving about 'charms' and magic and superpowers as soon as the reader might start thinking about inconsistencies or there's a plot problem to be got over.
Lore, Pittacus: I am Number Four
But dogmatism and group-think can take secular forms as well, as Stephen Hicks makes clear in his quick dissection of Carlin Romano's
handwaving discussion of Ayn Rand's Objectivism (see Hicks's Afterwords article, "America the Philosophical: Carlin Romano on Ayn Rand").
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