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puzzling and phenomenon
I raised in the previous chapter the problem of what Wigner calls the " unreasonable effectiveness " of mathematics ; here I want to take up another equally puzzling phenomenon, the unreasonable ineffectiveness of philosophy.
Since the 1960s a puzzling phenomenon has been observed in the atmosphere of Venus whereat the atmosphere above the cloud base is seen to travel around the planet about 50 times faster than the rotation of the planet surface, or in only four to five Earth-days.
Besides the aspect of materialization and dematerialization he cited the " poltergeist " phenomenon experienced by some people after a close encounter ; the photographs of UFOs, some times on only one frame, not seen by the witnesses ; the changing form right before the witnesses ' eyes ; the puzzling question of telepathic communication ; or that in close encounters of the third kind the creatures seem to be at home in earth's gravity and atmosphere ; the sudden stillness in the presence of the craft ; levitation of cars or persons ; the development by some of psychic abilities after an encounter.

puzzling and two
The two most puzzling omissions were first baseman Todd Helton and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki.
The two characters, brought into being within the puzzling universe of Stoppard's play by an act of the playwright's creation, have generally interchangeable, yet periodically unique, identities.
What many consider to be the most puzzling teosinte is Z. m. huehuetenangensis which combines a morphology rather like Z. m. parviglumis with many terminal chromosome knobs and an isozyme position between the two sections.
On the Italian Peninsula and Corsica, the two species are replaced by the Italian Sparrow, a puzzling type of sparrow apparently intermediate between the Spanish Sparrow and the House Sparrow.
Ford then offered to make it for whatever budget they had ( a puzzling scenario since Ford had two of the industry's biggest box-office attractions, both at the heights of their careers, James Stewart and John Wayne, lined up to work together for the first time ).
The two excerpts suggest resolutions to some puzzling passages in the canonical Mark.
Various people were to claim to witness a variety of puzzling incidents, such as a phantom coach driven by two headless horsemen, through the next four decades.
By a process of " puzzling out " the structure of the pieces split by the two different enzymes, then comparing the pieces from both enzyme splits, the team eventually determined the entire structure of the molecule.
Until she appears, he has no love interest ( indeed, the first two books are tautly constructed, and do not suffer from the absence of romance ), and when puzzling over his love for Mary, he remarks: " You can't live my kind of life for forty years, wholly among men, and be any good at pretty speeches to women.
Two of the more puzzling details of the painting are, one, the fact that the heads of Jesus and St. John seem to visually meld together in the upper left corner, and, two, the fact of the prominent presence, in the very center of the canvas and in foremost plane of the picture, of the arresting officer's highly polished, metal-clad arm.
After a series of injuries and a puzzling loss of form which meant he rarely played during his last two years at Manchester United, he was sold to Birmingham City for £ 250, 000.
In December 1969, physicist James E. McDonald called the Report " inadequate " and said " it represents an examination of only a tiny fraction of the most puzzling UFO reports of the past two decades, and that its level of scientific argumentation is wholly unsatisfactory.
That the number of variations circulating at the time was found puzzling by Mediaeval authors is suggested by the fact that Marie de France includes two versions in her 12th century Ysopet.

puzzling and individuals
Ultimately, costly signalling theory has the capacity to explain many puzzling facets of human foraging strategies – it has the potential to rationalize wasteful foraging displays because higher quality individuals gain higher benefits for producing high cost displays ( Hawkes et al.

puzzling and being
The original box scores also created the often puzzling abbreviation for strikeout as " K "-" K " being the last letter of " struck " in " struck out.
Repeatedly being wrong actually seemed to be an advantage, conferring some sort of puzzling magic glow upon the speaker.
Many modern readers will find it puzzling that one and the same thing is called the Good, the source of being ( the being of the forms, at least ), something that ( somehow ) sheds light on all other forms, and a universal.
Globsters may present such a puzzling appearance that their nature remains controversial even after being officially identified by scientists.

puzzling and evidence
For quite some time, this led to the puzzling question of why matter stays together as much evidence was found that matter was held together electromagnetically.
The case becomes more puzzling when evidence suggests a robot is responsible for the murders, the first one in eight years.
The panel felt that existing physical evidence that might support the ETH was inconclusive, but also deemed extremely puzzling UFO cases worthy of further scientific study.

puzzling and able
The puzzle is solved when one of the players is able to recite the narrative the host had in mind, in particular explaining whatever aspect of the initial scenario was puzzling.
Classical action principles are puzzling because of their seemingly teleological quality: given a set of initial and final conditions one is able to find a unique path connecting them, as if the system somehow knows where it's going to end up and how it's going to get there.
It is both remarkable and puzzling that Wulfstan was able to play so central a role in politics under both Æthelred's and Cnut's reigns, especially as it was under Æthelred's reign that Wulfstan, in his Sermo Lupi, so vehemently decried the depredations of the Danish and Norwegian Vikings.
Sitting in a top secret bunker one night puzzling over some challenging physics problems, some futuristic artifacts are amazingly teleported to the player — in the role of a US Army scientist — along with a note that says the artifacts are from the future, a future in which the Nazis won World War II and subsequently were able to enslave the entire world.

puzzling and reach
In 1894, a very wet summer, Hearne just failed to reach 200, yet his omission from the 1894 / 1895 tour of Australia remains puzzling given his persistence and pace from the ground might have been well-suited to the hard pitches then evolving in Australia.
What is even more puzzling is that lunarium is-as the name indicates-only mineable on the Moon, and mankind so far does not yet have the technology to reach it.

puzzling and different
Why opposite sides of the mountain should show different styles of deformation is puzzling.
The name is a reference to the Beast Wars Predacon Sky Shadow, whose name Jetfire apparently found in the Cybertron Archives — although quite how he would have found information about an individual from a different continuity is puzzling at best ( leading one to believe that the name may actually be a reference to Sky Shadow from Transformers Energon ).
As stated earlier, non-linear game play allows for greater replay value which allows the player to put together the different pieces of a potentially puzzling storyline.

puzzling and has
This behavior is so puzzling that it has been called the black hole information loss paradox.
She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has walked into, later revealed as a dreamscape.
An elaborate and not very amusing joke, this " puzzling " poem has been considered historically significant by some scholars as a signal from Ibycus that he is now turning his back on epic themes to concentrate on love poetry instead: a new vision or recusatio.
Adamski's case has never been solved, no suspect was ever arrested, and in a television documentary the coroner, James Turnbull, described it as " one of the most puzzling cases I've come across in 25 years ".
The position of the Peramelemorphia within the marsupial family tree has long been puzzling and controversial.
The play's puzzling and intriguing nature has meant that Troilus and Cressida has rarely been popular on stage, and neither during Shakespeare's own lifetime nor between 1734 and 1898 is there any recorded performance of the play.
In his dialogue Meno, Plato has the character Meno accuse Socrates of " stunning " people with his puzzling questions, in a manner similar to the way the torpedo fish stuns with electricity.
Group polarization has been widely considered as a fundamental group decision-making process and was well established, but remained non-obvious and puzzling because its mechanisms were not fully understood.
This fact is puzzling considering that although AMPK protein abundance has been shown to increase in skeletal tissue with endurance training, its level of activity has been shown to decrease with endurance training in both trained and untrained tissue.
This " exaltation of love " has led some critics to see Tristan as effectively heretical, with Tristan and Isolde as " saints " of a religion of love, though how such a work could have been repeatedly read and copied at 13th century courts remains puzzling.
Although the ancient history of Walker Lake has been extensively studied by researchers seeking to establish a climatic timeline for the region as part of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository study, this research has raised many puzzling questions.
This high level of radiation does not seem to have caused ill effects on the residents of the area and even possibly has made them slightly more radioresistant, which is puzzling and has been called " radiation paradox ".
His acceptance of his guilt for his multiple sins is also notable in his allowing Shatov, whose wife Stavrogin has had an affair with, to punch him in the face without responding, a seemingly shameful reaction for a nobleman to a former serf ( this takes place in perhaps the best scene of a type seen often in Dostoyevsky's workmost of the major characters are gathered together and then all hell breaks loose in a way that is puzzling until the novel later fills in the back story ).
It has long been puzzling to epigraphers why the syllabic principles that underlie the script, where every consonant is assumed to be followed by a vowel a, should have special letters for consonants followed by e. Such a mixed abugida – syllabary is not found among the abugidas of India, nor in Ethiopic.
Strabo, geographer of the Early Roman Empire, has an explanation of the geography Herodotus found so puzzling.
The term itself has a puzzling connotation, for it has very limited use within the subcontinent for the purpose that it gained in the West Indies.

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