The brain has always been central to the most insightful thinking on warfare, whether that’s ancient China’s Sun Tzu, who prized deception and self-knowledge, or early 19th-century Prussia’s Carl von Clausewitz, for whom war was a clash of wills.
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Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Oct. 2025
Small dogs are prized in cities, and a foster family in Portland had quickly agreed to take in Allsup.
Police quickly realized, however, there were inconsistencies in the siblings’ story, and authorities ascertained that Samantha was the person driving at the time of the incident.
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Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
Prior to digitization, this could be ascertained by monitoring the circulation of screening prints between distributors in New York.
International researchers have just discovered a new ice form called ice XXI, which compresses water to extreme pressures while keeping it at room temperature.
This statistical measure of heritability is notoriously difficult to interpret and limited in its import; twin studies, developed decades before the DNA molecule was discovered, also offered little insight into the biology of any particular trait.
From Seattle to Baltimore, many Americans were celebrating Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day, determined to see it as a triumph of perseverance over centuries marked by trauma.
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Terry Tang,
Twin Cities,
13 Oct. 2025
His conviction was overturned in 2024 after an appeals court determined a juror had been improperly dismissed during deliberations.
My values include the beliefs that all of our students should feel safe, respected, and valued in our schools, that decisions should be made on the best available evidence and data, that our kids are not political pawns, that inclusion creates opportunity, and that schools shouldn’t ban books.
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Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
Their perspective seems to point to the fact that more practical, hard skills—such as how credit scores work, or how to pay off credit card debt—are valued over the soft skills that great works of literature might impress on young minds.
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