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One popular explanation for Jupiter's fuzzy core involved a catastrophic collision early in the planet's history. Scientists ...

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Much of the literature on development uses the world system model as a grand conceptual scheme rather than as a theory of development. I test the world system paradigm as a general theory of ...

In reaction to circumstances, the autonomic nervous system, dominated by the vagus nerve, changes our state of being, much like surrounding conditions change the state of water.

Each theory may have its own version of reality, but according to model-­dependent realism, that diversity is acceptable, and none of the versions can be said to be more real than any other.

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Physics A brief history of the standard model, our theory of almost everything Our amazing picture of the particles and forces that make reality took decades of invention and experiment to piece ...