As our low mimetic cultural objects saturate global consciousness, can we also reckon a high-zone balancing act that executes Design theory on the concourses of daily life?

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What's worse, none of the Justices seemed willing to buy his creative theory that the Electoral Count Act had been violated.

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These findings would not have surprised Charles Darwin, who in addition to theorizing on evolution in The Origin of the Species, also developed the Facial Feedback Response Theory, which suggests that the act of smiling actually makes us feel better (rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good).

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It all makes me think of British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who described the social theory of utilitarianism, which holds that one must always act so as to produce the greatest aggregate happiness for the greatest number of people.

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The problem, however, is that this theory assumes that all investors are sharing the same information and act instantly on it.

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Boyd's proudest achievement was a theory called OODA, for Observe-Orient-Decide-Act.

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