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>dead obvious, but somehow needing to be constantly re-explained

Because it's not all 'dead obvious', maybe?



"Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained." ~ Pardot Kynes, Dune


There's a great book about this, Everything is Obvious (Once You Know The Answer) about how many scientific studies come up with obvious-seeming findings, but if they'd found the opposite, that would have seemed obvious to us too..




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