...seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.
In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white stars we call white dwarfs. When stars are made of neutrons, we call them neutron stars. Stars that pulse, we call them pulsars. In biology they come up with big Latin words for things. MDs write prescriptions in a cuneiform that patients can__ understand, hand them to the pharmacist, who understands the cuneiform. It__ some long fancy chemical thing, which we ingest. In biochemistry, the most popular molecule has ten syllables__eoxyribonucleic acid! Yet the beginning of all space, time, matter, and energy in the cosmos, we can describe in two simple words, Big Bang. We are a monosyllabic science, because the universe is hard enough. There is no point in making big words to confuse you further.Want more? In the universe, there are places where the gravity is so strong that light doesn__ come out. You fall in, and you don__ come out either: black hole. Once again, with single syllables, we get the whole job done. Sorry, but I had to get all that off my chest.
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In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white stars we call white dwarfs. When stars are made of neutrons, we call them neutron stars. Stars that pulse, we call them pulsars. In biology they come up with big Latin words for things. MDs write prescriptions in a cuneiform that patients can__ understand, hand them to the pharmacist, who understands the cuneiform. It__ some long fancy chemical thing, which we ingest. In biochemistry, the most popular molecule has ten syllables__eoxyribonucleic acid! Yet the beginning of all space, time, matter, and energy in the cosmos, we can describe in two simple words, Big Bang. We are a monosyllabic science, because the universe is hard enough. There is no point in making big words to confuse you further.Want more? In the universe, there are places where the gravity is so strong that light doesn__ come out. You fall in, and you don__ come out either: black hole. Once again, with single syllables, we get the whole job done. Sorry, but I had to get all that off my chest.
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