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    How I see daily life is heavily influenced by my scientific background. My knowledge is provisional which means in social and political discourse I use working hypotheses.

    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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    Calculating with Numbers
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    Calculating with Numbers

    Robert Hamill 24 Dec 201629 May 2022Leave 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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    Agents of Human Evolution
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    Agents of Human Evolution

    Robert Hamill 4 Sep 20161 Feb 2023Leave a comment

    Nature experiments more freely in evolution with the male of the species.

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    Rate of Evolution, Rate of Mutation
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    Rate of Evolution, Rate of Mutation

    Robert Hamill 23 Apr 201630 Mar 20241 Comment

    I always thought the rate of evolution was equal to the rate of mutation, but that's not right.

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    Increments of tiny things can add up to something large
    Learning Mental Aspects Science

    Increments of tiny things can add up to something large

    Robert Hamill 21 Mar 20161 Feb 2023Leave a comment

    Significant changes do occur although daily or even yearly the incremental changes are barely noticeable.

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    Types and Certainty of Knowledge
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    Types and Certainty of Knowledge

    Robert Hamill 17 Mar 201628 Nov 20241 Comment

    What do you know for sure? Knowledge. Immediate, Secondary, and Authority

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    Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

    Robert Hamill 7 Oct 20157 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    What would bloggers and conspiracy theorists make of —a man with flames shooting out of his mouth?

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    Stone Age in New Guinea
    Science Society

    Stone Age in New Guinea

    Robert Hamill 6 Oct 201530 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    Nutritionally poor crops, not allowing excess production to support specialization Local animals were not large enough and trainable, leaving little excess talent available to come…

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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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    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)