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Robert Hamill

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    How We Think: Live on Substack

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    Education eBook

    Robert Hamill 26 Jan 202313 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Individual development, societal role, and employable skills

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    Emergence: Mind from Brain
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    Emergence: Mind from Brain

    Robert Hamill 12 Jan 202327 Feb 2024Leave a comment

    Almost Gate. Two things, almost the same, get treated as the same.

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    Reluctant Guest
    Patapsco Days Poems Society

    Reluctant Guest

    Robert Hamill 29 Dec 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Reluctant guest in urban ghetto

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    Honor the Ghost
    Patapsco Days

    Honor the Ghost

    Robert Hamill 10 Dec 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Don’t you live across the street from my mother? How could you steal from us?

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    Wet Weather
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    Wet Weather

    Robert Hamill 28 Nov 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    The sky, greyed with storm clouds, hid the motions of the rain person.

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    Inflation, Fed Funds, and Economic Lags
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    Inflation, Fed Funds, and Economic Lags

    Robert Hamill 26 Nov 202222 May 2023Leave a comment

    A year after the last Fed's increases, its effects finally land and provide a final suppression to economic activity.

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    Fake News and Free Speech
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    Fake News and Free Speech

    Robert Hamill 22 Nov 202228 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    Free speech does not cover statements if those statements cause harm. Fake News harms us. It stops the government from meeting our goals.

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    Hall of Fame
    College Surprises Poems

    Hall of Fame

    Robert Hamill 15 Nov 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Isaac Newton, how did you rest-when you discovered that absolute time and place were lost?"

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    Calculus of Civil Disobedience
    College Surprises Fiction

    Calculus of Civil Disobedience

    Robert Hamill 5 Nov 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    She's cheating... yet it seemed almost sensible.

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    The Way of the World
    Mature Darkness

    The Way of the World

    Robert Hamill 1 Nov 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Kenny wins every interaction.

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