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While gray matter naturally decreases with age, research indicates that adults who engage in excessive screen time have significantly lower gray matter volume compared to their peers.—
Caroline Castrillon,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025 -
Their temporary electronic face tattoo, or e-tattoo, can read brain waves and not only detect when the ol' gray matter is overworked, but also predict when exhaustion is approaching.—
Paul McClure
May 29,
New Atlas,
29 May 2025
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Just look at Kayvon Thibodeaux, who entered the league not just as a top edge rusher but as an entrepreneur and cultural commentator—launching a crypto literacy initiative during his draft campaign and openly challenging narratives around Black athletes and intellectualism.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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But Kennedy’s Camelot at least tried to elevate idealism, intellectualism, and the modern elegance of a pillbox hat.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2025
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The stories are compelling, often blending sure-fire elements of true crime, psychology (primarily the surrender and loss of self, replaced with a groupthink mentality), deception, betrayal and all manner of drama.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The mission seems to remain the same, but does anything change as far as the mentality creating over the years?—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
1 July 2025
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This is embodied intelligence – the idea that some elements of cognition can be outsourced to the body.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 June 2025
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In an interview with Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Bartiromo brought up a Truth Social post from Trump saying Democrats had leaked intelligence around the Iran strike, to which the president interjected that they should be prosecuted.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
29 June 2025
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Everton midfielder Hayley Ladd is the brains of the operation now, while Liverpool counterpart Ceri Holland has become a reliable source of goals and energy.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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Inside Out follows Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), and the emotions in Riley’s brain that control her daily life: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling).—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
26 June 2025
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There is not an American President—Bill Clinton, George H. W. or George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump—who has dealt with Netanyahu and not, sooner or later, come away with a lingering sense of resentment.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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In a sense, the job search should be treated like a personal marketing campaign, Zeile suggested.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
20 June 2025
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The 6–3 opinion by Justice Samuel Alito is yet another of the fruits of the Court’s conservative majority, its fidelity to the Constitution, and its fundamental common sense.—
The Editors,
National Review,
28 June 2025
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The Trump administration is committed to restoring common sense to our student visa system; no lawsuit, this or any other, is going to change that.—
Peter Aitken,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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According to a recent study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, human intellect has declined since 2012.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Customer-facing interactions require human intuition to navigate sensitive moments where empathy, sensitivity and emotional intellect truly matter.—
Joel Frenette,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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“Highbrowism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highbrowism. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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