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Armed with the knowledge that disks have these slight warps, theorists have a new variable to input into their simulations of how planets are assembled, to gain new insights into how our Earth and the other planets of the solar system came to be.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
This is precisely as the great media theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
In the late Eighties, systems theorists and information scientists developed something called the DIKW pyramid, the data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Racial-capitalism theorists, emphasizing systematicity, tend to see historical traumas as features, not bugs.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
This is precisely as the great media theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted.
—David G.w. Birch, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
In the late Eighties, systems theorists and information scientists developed something called the DIKW pyramid, the data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy.
—Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Racial-capitalism theorists, emphasizing systematicity, tend to see historical traumas as features, not bugs.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Theorist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theorist. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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theorist
noun
the·o·rist
ˈthē-ə-rəst 
ˈthi(-ə)r-əst
: a person who theorizes
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