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A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and ...

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Forensic audit using advanced AI reveals the objective logic of the soul, offering a user manual for consciousness ...

In 2025, Nature searched for the world’s happiest PhD students, anticipating that they might be in Finland. The Nordic nation of long winters and, apparently, the most heavy-metal bands per capita ...

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