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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
638 thinkers
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638 thinkers
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Lisa Feldman Barrett
Neuroscientist and psychologist of constructed emotion—how the brain predicts and categorizes affect from context and culture.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett
Neuroscientist and psychologist of constructed emotion—how the brain predicts and categorizes affect from context and culture.
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Los Angeles Times
Newspaper archive covering Knight suspensions, allegations, and the evidence that forced institutional action.
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Los Angeles Times
Newspaper archive covering Knight suspensions, allegations, and the evidence that forced institutional action.
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Louisa Lim
Journalist of Tiananmen memory and the Chinese state's enforced forgetting.
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Louisa Lim
Journalist of Tiananmen memory and the Chinese state's enforced forgetting.
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Lucian A. Bebchuk
Legal scholars of corporate governance, index funds, and concentrated shareholder power.
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Lucian A. Bebchuk
Legal scholars of corporate governance, index funds, and concentrated shareholder power.
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Lucy Vasserman
Software engineer and researcher on model documentation and responsible machine learning reporting.
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Lucy Vasserman
Software engineer and researcher on model documentation and responsible machine learning reporting.
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Lutz Prechelt
Software researchers studying developer experience, flow interruption, and productivity measurement limits.
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Lutz Prechelt
Software researchers studying developer experience, flow interruption, and productivity measurement limits.
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Lynn Smith-Lovin
Sociologists of social networks, homophily, and how tie structure shapes information and trust.
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Lynn Smith-Lovin
Sociologists of social networks, homophily, and how tie structure shapes information and trust.
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Maggie Haberman
Pulitzer-winning political correspondent and author chronicling Donald Trump and the transformation of American political media.
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Maggie Haberman
Pulitzer-winning political correspondent and author chronicling Donald Trump and the transformation of American political media.
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Mahmood Mamdani
Political theorist critiquing South Africa's TRC tradeoffs between amnesty, justice, and nation-building.
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Mahmood Mamdani
Political theorist critiquing South Africa's TRC tradeoffs between amnesty, justice, and nation-building.
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Major League Baseball
League institution setting pitching workload guidance and automated ball-strike challenge design.
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Major League Baseball
League institution setting pitching workload guidance and automated ball-strike challenge design.
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Mancur Olson
Economist of collective action, free riding, and why groups struggle to pursue shared interests.
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Mancur Olson
Economist of collective action, free riding, and why groups struggle to pursue shared interests.
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Manuel Pais
Authors on team topologies—organizing software teams for flow, cognitive load, and interaction modes.
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Manuel Pais
Authors on team topologies—organizing software teams for flow, cognitive load, and interaction modes.
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Margaret Mitchell
Machine learning researcher known for model cards, documentation transparency, and fairness in NLP systems.
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Margaret Mitchell
Machine learning researcher known for model cards, documentation transparency, and fairness in NLP systems.
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Maria Paasivaara
Software engineering researchers on large-scale agile adoption and coordination across sites.
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Maria Paasivaara
Software engineering researchers on large-scale agile adoption and coordination across sites.
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Mark Blyth
Political economist of austerity as a dangerous idea recycled across crises.
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Mark Blyth
Political economist of austerity as a dangerous idea recycled across crises.
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Mark Edward Lewis
Historian of early Chinese sanctioned violence and the formation of political order.
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Mark Edward Lewis
Historian of early Chinese sanctioned violence and the formation of political order.
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Mark Johnson
Cognitive linguists of conceptual metaphor—how embodied experience structures abstract thought.
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Mark Johnson
Cognitive linguists of conceptual metaphor—how embodied experience structures abstract thought.
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Mark Monmonier
Geographer explaining how maps persuade—projection, omission, and spatial rhetoric as power.
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Mark Monmonier
Geographer explaining how maps persuade—projection, omission, and spatial rhetoric as power.
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Mark R. Lepper
Psychologists of belief perseverance and biased assimilation of disconfirming evidence.
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Mark R. Lepper
Psychologists of belief perseverance and biased assimilation of disconfirming evidence.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO whose congressional testimony framed platform responsibility under commercial growth logic.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO whose congressional testimony framed platform responsibility under commercial growth logic.
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Martha Minow
Legal scholar of forgiveness, memory, and justice after mass atrocity and historical harm.
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Martha Minow
Legal scholar of forgiveness, memory, and justice after mass atrocity and historical harm.
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Martin Fowler
Software writer and methodologist on architecture, refactoring, and how teams evolve systems without losing coherence.
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Martin Fowler
Software writer and methodologist on architecture, refactoring, and how teams evolve systems without losing coherence.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader whose sermons and letters articulate moral authority, nonviolent correction, and beloved community.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil rights leader whose sermons and letters articulate moral authority, nonviolent correction, and beloved community.
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Mary Beard
Classicist and public historian of Rome, rhetoric, and how power speaks through cultural memory.
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Mary Beard
Classicist and public historian of Rome, rhetoric, and how power speaks through cultural memory.