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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
    Mental Aspects Neuroscience Science

    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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    Learning by Ignoring Details
    Learning Mental Aspects

    Learning by Ignoring Details

    Robert Hamill 16 Jan 201728 Dec 2023Leave a comment

    I am willingly, in fact predisposed, to ignore details, all the while searching for an overall understanding.

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    Elections and Campaigns
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    Elections and Campaigns

    Robert Hamill 11 Jan 201730 Nov 20234 Comments

    Equally important the election results in representation aligning with the majority's vote.

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    Calculating with Numbers
    Daily Life Science

    Calculating with Numbers

    Robert Hamill 24 Dec 20168 Jul 2026Leave a comment

    I learned two lessons that night. 12 times 12 is 144 and theories should be put to the test as soon as possible.

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    Sun in the Winter Sky
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    Sun in the Winter Sky

    Robert Hamill 22 Dec 201628 Nov 20232 Comments

    How does science enter everyday thoughts?

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    Distance in Stories
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    Distance in Stories

    Robert Hamill 29 Oct 201626 Jan 2025Leave a comment

    Distance is a measure of emotional nearness presented to the reader.

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    Evaluating Trump – A Baker Dozen Questions

    Robert Hamill 29 Sep 201630 May 2022Leave a comment

    Do you think that Trump’s many years of questioning Obama’s US citizenship was a legitimate concern or actually an insight into Trump’s view of who…

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    Brainstorm Short Circuit
    Mental Aspects Thought Modes

    Brainstorm Short Circuit

    Robert Hamill 18 Sep 201625 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    When my right hand shaking started to affect my hand writing, I converted fairly easily to keyboard writing. I’d been programming a computer since my…

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    Champions
    Tales of Cubicle and Home

    Champions

    Robert Hamill 15 May 20166 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Why did he treat everything as a fresh fact, each time he mentioned it? Couldn't he just get on with it?

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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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    Reclaim the American Dream

    A Civic Agenda for Renewal The American Dream was never meant to be a slogan. It was a covenant: life, liberty, and the pursuit of…

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      War Powers Act

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      The United States and the Multipolar World

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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

    • The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street
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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

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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)