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Robert Hamill

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    How We Think: Live on Substack

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    BGE Bills Show Temperature Rise
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    BGE Bills Show Temperature Rise

    Robert Hamill 2 Jun 202229 Apr 2025Leave a comment

    In thirty years, the yearly lows and the yearly in middle Maryland are both up about 2 degrees.

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    Pattern-Matching, Similarity, and Almost Gate
    Mental Aspects Neuroscience

    Pattern-Matching, Similarity, and Almost Gate

    Robert Hamill 2 Jun 202226 May 2025Leave a comment

    If two inputs are almost the same, downstream ,in the brain, they become the same.*

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    Memoir Style
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    Memoir Style

    Robert Hamill 31 May 202228 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    The memoir style appeals to those who want to relate meaningful stories that one could imagine happening in their circle.

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    Party Story, Prose Story
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    Party Story, Prose Story

    Robert Hamill 25 May 202215 Jun 2024Leave a comment

    A story is easy to tell at a party. Why is it harder to write a story?

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    Decreasing COVID-19 Fraction of US Deaths
    Science

    Decreasing COVID-19 Fraction of US Deaths

    Robert Hamill 2 May 20227 Sep 2022Leave a comment

    arbinger, as Dr. Fauci intimated, of the pandemic converting to a background disease that we can deal with as we do the yearly flu shot?

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    Available: Neural Almost Gate
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    Available: Neural Almost Gate

    Robert Hamill 2 May 202225 Oct 2022Leave a comment

    Neural Almost Gate eBook available May 1, 2022

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    Neural Almost Gate
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    Neural Almost Gate

    Robert Hamill 22 Apr 20225 Jun 2023Leave a comment

    A neuron sends a signal

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    Bully
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    Bully

    Robert Hamill 15 Feb 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    I want to stop who is throwing rocks at Tippy. When I catch them, I'll make them so sorry.

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    Another Ball in the Air
    Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Another Ball in the Air

    Robert Hamill 6 Dec 20217 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    When I hear a hare-brained project proposed by a politician, it reminds me of a scheme an old boss of mine, another ball in the…

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    Anti-Vax Logic
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    Anti-Vax Logic

    Robert Hamill 26 Sep 202129 May 2022Leave a comment

    Accept the vaccine, a bad side effect may occur. Your fault for choosing. Refuse the vaccine, they'll never pin any covid-19 deaths on you. No…

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    The brain works with almost matches, not exact matches.

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    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    How Do We Think

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    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    War Powers Act

    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

    • Morality. Absolute or Relative
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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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      Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)