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    Letting Your Subconscious Work For You

    Robert Hamill 9 Dec 201430 May 20221 Comment

    Link your memories and interests with the course material. Do this before the course starts. So it's your interests, not the teacher's.

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    Only People, Not Corporations
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    Only People, Not Corporations

    Robert Hamill 15 Oct 201430 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    “Corporations are people, too” is double-dipping on citizenship rights. Their leaders already have a vote and the means to voice their opinions.

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    Dreaming in Sleep Apnea

    Robert Hamill 24 Aug 201430 Dec 20222 Comments

    My theory is that the many subconscious wakeups, reported in my sleep apnea study, reinitiate the same dream, when the wakeups occur frequently within a…

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    Creative Destruction and the Social Contract
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    Creative Destruction and the Social Contract

    Robert Hamill 23 Aug 201428 Nov 20241 Comment

    Financially arranged consolidation is not creative destruction. It is the transfer of assets without pension responsibility

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    Nature Nurture Free Will

    Robert Hamill 4 Jun 201428 Nov 2024Leave a comment

    Is our behavior completely explained by nature and nurture or does individual free choice play a role?

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    Government Size and Role
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    Government Size and Role

    Robert Hamill 20 Apr 201410 Jul 2024Leave a comment

    It's always puzzled me - just what is the scope of government? And what is the individual's scope? That of course raises the issue of…

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    Gas Price Inflation
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    Gas Price Inflation

    Robert Hamill 4 Feb 201428 Apr 2023Leave a comment

    In Twilight Zone episode, gas is 32.9 cents/gal. Now it's 10 times higher. What's the inflation rate?

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    Black Hole Derivation
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    Black Hole Derivation

    Robert Hamill 17 Jan 201429 May 2022Leave a comment

    I was fiddling around with a particle accelerating to the speed of light in a gravitational field. I came up with r

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    Gore-Tex Invention
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    Gore-Tex Invention

    Robert Hamill 6 Dec 201310 Aug 2023Leave a comment

    Another case where science moved by fits and starts rather than reasoned logic.

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    Obama The Good, the Bad, and the Uglies
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    Obama The Good, the Bad, and the Uglies

    Robert Hamill 26 Nov 201330 May 2022Leave a comment

    The ugly came out in extreme supporters and opponents. Each believed they had the one true truth and the other side is evil incarnate. Compromise…

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