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    The Future of News Media
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    The Future of News Media

    Robert Hamill 7 Apr 201730 May 2022Leave a comment

    PBS attempts to hew closer to just-the-facts. Unfortunately they are lumped into lame-stream media by conservative talking heads.

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    Voting Decisions in a Democratic Republic
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    Voting Decisions in a Democratic Republic

    Robert Hamill 16 Mar 201730 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    Arranging political factors: The danger of climate change swamping us in the remainder of our life is low while the chance of bankruptcy due to…

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    Baltimore 19th Century Female Philanthropist
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    Baltimore 19th Century Female Philanthropist

    Robert Hamill 12 Mar 201728 Apr 2024Leave a comment

    Mary Elizabeth Garrett and her role in the founding of Johns Hopkins Medical School

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    Wilding on a Hard Day’s Night
    Patapsco Days

    Wilding on a Hard Day’s Night

    Robert Hamill 8 Mar 20176 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    He christened me "Bronco Almon," more interested in fighting than understanding. School's a bitch. Life's a bitch this year.

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    Personhood at Conception
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    Personhood at Conception

    Robert Hamill 4 Mar 201728 Nov 20245 Comments

    Personhood at conception gives rights to the might-be-born that supersede the rights of those-who-have-been-born.

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    Python and WebCam
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    Python and WebCam

    Robert Hamill 12 Feb 201729 May 2022Leave a comment

    "Ten Big Apps" by Ardit Sulce on Udemy taught me how to control my webcam through python

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    Scapegoating – Advantages and Disadvantages
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    Scapegoating – Advantages and Disadvantages

    Robert Hamill 11 Feb 201726 Jan 20254 Comments

    If someone uses scapegoats, you can be sure that someone is trying to manipulate your feelings so that your behavior can be directed by them…

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    Too Old to Learn
    Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Too Old to Learn

    Robert Hamill 8 Feb 20176 Dec 20241 Comment

    I expected a grandma type at the guard's desk, but she surprised me.

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    Muslim US Immigration and Islamic Civil War
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    Muslim US Immigration and Islamic Civil War

    Robert Hamill 30 Jan 201730 May 20221 Comment

    The Middle East Civil War between Sunni and Shia find it useful to distract their own populations from their failures by targeting Western sites.

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    Some Brain Connections are Not Complete until Your 20s
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    Some Brain Connections are Not Complete until Your 20s

    Robert Hamill 30 Jan 201728 Nov 2024Leave a comment

    One's mental maturity, the age at which a person is able to integrate the full power of their thoughts, is reached more than a decade…

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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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    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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    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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      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)