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Meanwhile, quantum information theorists have taken a different approach (opens a new tab) to handling subjectivity.
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Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
It was communicated in the bright, moving pixels that media theorist Marshall McLuhan warned us about in the 1960s.
—F.k. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
As political theorist Sheldon Wolin keenly observed soon after, this formulation was a tellingly technocratic revision of Lincoln’s ideal, omitting the latter’s equal commitment to a government of and by the people.
—Harry Boyte and Trygve Throntveit, TIME, 4 Jan. 2025
Questions plaguing physicists about not only the smallest bits of matter but also the properties of the entire universe may yet yield to string theorists’ efforts.
—Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
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Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
It was communicated in the bright, moving pixels that media theorist Marshall McLuhan warned us about in the 1960s.
—F.k. Plous, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
As political theorist Sheldon Wolin keenly observed soon after, this formulation was a tellingly technocratic revision of Lincoln’s ideal, omitting the latter’s equal commitment to a government of and by the people.
—Harry Boyte and Trygve Throntveit, TIME, 4 Jan. 2025
Questions plaguing physicists about not only the smallest bits of matter but also the properties of the entire universe may yet yield to string theorists’ efforts.
—Tom Siegfried, JSTOR Daily, 19 Dec. 2024
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