The second issue is a nuance of the first.

I made that image of Durga and her every attribute, her every nuance, my very own.

So we started developing a technology that will allow him with nuance, with precision, with control, and despite his physical disability, to be able to do that, to be able to perform his piece of music.

Fragmentation of the international institutions seemed imminent that is, until European countries decided to join the AIIB. Though the US resisted at first, and has still refused to join, that decision was lent some nuance in a later conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama.

True, the slump is partly an illusion the earlier boom was fueled by Japanese households effort to beat the tax by front loading purchases of consumer durables a nuance that seems to have been lost in the public debate. But the big picture remains Abenomics so far has failed to turn around a deflationary mindset.

The difference between what the French call laicité and secularism is more than a linguistic nuance for Turkey, which adopted its Kemalist system not long after France entrenched its secular republic. Religious symbols and references have to a large extent been removed from the public sphere here, and religion is thought to be a private matter.

And what all this means is that paradigms take far too long to shift, that complexity and nuance are ignored and also that money talks because we've all seen the evidence of pharmaceutical companies funding studies of drugs that conveniently leave out their worst side effects, or studies funded by food companies of their new products, massively exaggerating the health benefits of the products they're about to bring by market.

For if we keep our independent decision making part of our brains switched on, if we challenge experts, if we're skeptical, if we devolve authority, if we are rebellious, but also if we become much more comfortable with nuance, uncertainty and doubt, and if we allow our experts to express themselves using those terms too, we will set ourselves up much better for the challenges of the 21st century.