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Daily Beast
Brian Greene: Welcome to the Multiverse
Daily Beast
Many others find this explanation unsatisfying, silly, even offensive, asserting that science is meant to give definitive, precise, and quantitative explanations, not “just so” stories. But the essential counterpoint is that if the feature you're ...


 
New York Times
Gayle King Gets Redonkulous
New York Times
It's just so outrageous. The original story started with this mother being accused of putting her daughter in a tanning booth, and then when you see the mother, it's just sort of, “Whoa.” We're not going to ignore legitimate news stories even though ...


 
Forbes
Republicans are Stupid ...
Forbes
Kipling's wonderful turn-of-the-20 th century “Just So Stories” contain fictional tales that pretend to explain scientific phenomenon. No one takes them seriously. The trouble with Mooney's “just so” story about the biology of politics is that some ...

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Discovery Institute
Major Discovery: Evolutionary Psychology Confirms that Many Men Are Cads
Discovery Institute
But here we run into one of the consistent criticisms of evolutionary psychology, which is that there can be a "just-so story" to explain every data set. Perhaps the effects reported by Goetz and her team can be interpreted just as well from a ...


 
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A Life Spent Tracing Roots
NPR
"There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees," Gates tells host Neal Conan. "My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree." With a number of PBS programs and books, he has traced the roots of prominent Americans ...

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Stories from the survivors: Local veterans recall their time in battle
Gainesville Sun
He still feels this way. "You just do your job," Williams says. "Don't be afraid of the consequences. Don't be afraid of death; you're going to die sometime. I had so many close calls, I don't know why I'm alive — and I don't really give a damn.

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Central Park Jogger film premieres at Cannes
AFP
"I was just so moved by their story and so impressed by them and the dignity they had maintained in the face of all of this," Sarah Burns told AFP. "When you talk to them now, it is written on their faces like it happened yesterday.