E36: What is an Explanation? - Part 1

Unsupervised Thinking by Neuro Collective

Sep 26, 201851:28Science & Medicine

As scientists, we throw around words like "explanation" a lot. We assume explaining stuff is part of what we're doing when we make and synthesize discoveries. But what does it actually take for something to be an explana...

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