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  2. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...

  3. Scientific consensus - Wikipedia

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    There are many philosophical and historical theories as to how scientific consensus changes over time. Because the history of scientific change is extremely complicated, and because there is a tendency to project "winners" and "losers" onto the past in relation to the current scientific consensus, it is very difficult to come up with accurate and rigorous models for scientific change. [17]

  4. Best practice - Wikipedia

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    Vagueness stems from the term "best" which is subjective. While some research and evidence must go into determining a practice the "best" it is more helpful to simply determine if a practice has worked exceptionally well and why. Instead of it being "the best", a practice might simply be a smart practice, a good practice, or a promising practice.

  5. Truth behind the Donald Trump quote from 1998 that's rapidly ...

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    As it turns out, though, the lines have been proven fake. According to fact-checking site Snopes, they found no record of Trump saying this in 1998 or any other time according to their research.

  6. Efficacy - Wikipedia

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    Efficacy is the ability to perform a task to a satisfactory or expected degree. The word comes from the same roots as effectiveness, and it has often been used synonymously, although in pharmacology a distinction is now often made between efficacy and effectiveness.

  7. Criticism of the theory of relativity - Wikipedia

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    Some academic scientists, especially experimental physicists such as the Nobel laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, as well as Ernst Gehrcke, Stjepan Mohorovičić, Rudolf Tomaschek and others criticized the increasing abstraction and mathematization of modern physics, especially in the form of relativity theory, and later quantum ...

  8. Losing Weight After 60? These Expert-Backed Techniques Are ...

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    These Expert-Backed Techniques Are Proven To Help. ... Insulin is an important hormone that can act on the brain to stimulate metabolism after meals as well as suppress appetite,” Malin says ...

  9. Scientific theory - Wikipedia

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    Some theories are so well-established that they are unlikely ever to be fundamentally changed (for example, scientific theories such as evolution, heliocentric theory, cell theory, theory of plate tectonics, germ theory of disease, etc.). In certain cases, a scientific theory or scientific law that fails to fit all data can still be useful (due ...