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emphasized communicability:

But a second, especially crucial role of models, drawings, and computer graphics is to make explicit a relationship that you have found, enabling other people to see it as well. This often can be done just by making the relevant part a heavier line or a brighter color, or by deleting most of everything else, but it always requires explicit effort.

Richardson, Jane and Richardson, David C. (1992), ‘looking at proteins’, Biophysics Journal, 63, pp. 1186–209.

quoted from Drawing Processes of Life: Molecules, Cells, Organisms. 2024.

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This year's elections will be the most important choice for America since the end of the Cold War.

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Perception of melody requires the successful extraction of multiple features from a dynamic acoustic signal. Correspondingly, we have shown that melody is not processed by a single monolithic region. Rather, leveraging both general-auditory and music-specific mechanisms, different neural subpopulations across a spatial map encode distinct melodic features, spanning basic spectrotemporal to time-integrated and statistical structure.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk0010

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