Monthly Archives: July 2025

Modest Proposal: Cooperative VTuber Company Model: “Talent-Owned Virtual Entertainment Cooperative”

Posted on July 22, 2025 by nathanalbright

1. Executive Summary The proposal outlines a cooperative model for a VTuber company in which the talents are also co-owners of their respective business units and of the cooperative itself. This model promotes creative freedom, equitable profit sharing, and long-term sustainability, … Continue reading →

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The Ambivalent Relationship Between Detectives and the Police Establishment: Reflections on Readers, Writers, and Authority

Posted on July 22, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper explores the enduring theme of the ambivalent relationship between detectives and the police establishment in literature and popular culture. Drawing on examples from detective fiction, police procedurals, and noir narratives, it examines how this tension mirrors … Continue reading →

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White Paper: How the Biblical Command Against Murder Became Misinterpreted as a General Prohibition on Killing

Posted on July 21, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines how the sixth commandment of the Hebrew Bible—traditionally rendered in English as “Thou shalt not kill”—came to be misunderstood and misinterpreted in much of modern thought as a blanket prohibition on all forms of … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Linguistic History of Bum and Its Association with Laziness in English and Other Languages

Posted on July 21, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper explores the etymology and semantic evolution of the word bum, examining how it came to denote laziness, vagrancy, or idleness in English. It traces the term’s origins, its spread in American English, its overlap with … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Protocol for a Large-Scale Prospective Study of Postmenopausal Women with Benign Ovarian Cysts or Tumors and Family History of Ovarian Neoplasia

Posted on July 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Ovarian cancer remains a leading cause of gynecologic cancer mortality, in part due to late diagnosis and lack of robust early detection strategies. Many postmenopausal women present with incidentally detected, apparently benign ovarian cysts or tumors. The risk … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Enabling Second Mortgages for In-House Apartment Construction on Single-Family Homes — Implications for Housing Supply and Homeowner Tax Incentives

Posted on July 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper explores the proposal to permit and incentivize second mortgages specifically for homeowners seeking to build self-contained in-house apartments (“accessory dwelling units,” or ADUs) within existing single-family homes. It examines how such a policy could expand housing … Continue reading →

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Album Review: No Protection

Posted on July 18, 2025 by nathanalbright

No Protection, by Starship When making No Protection, the band Starship was in a strange place. The first album of this group, the third and final iteration of Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship, Knee Deep In The Hoopla, had been an immense … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Social and Moral Implications of the Coldplay Concert Cheating Scandal and Its Virality in Contemporary Society

Posted on July 18, 2025 by nathanalbright

Author: Nathan Albright Date: July 18, 2025 Executive Summary On July 16, 2025, a Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, became the epicenter of a viral scandal when a “kiss cam” captured two individuals, identified as Astronomer CEO … Continue reading →

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Why Memes Are So Information-Dense — and What Contexts Are Needed Next to Understand Them

Posted on July 18, 2025 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper examines the reasons why internet memes achieve an extraordinary level of information density, condensing cultural, emotional, and ideological cues into minimal text and imagery. It argues that memes exploit shared cultural context and semiotic compression to … Continue reading →

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From Grammar to Biology: How “Gender” Became Confused with Biological Sex

Posted on July 17, 2025 by nathanalbright

In the intellectual history of language and social thought, few concepts have undergone as dramatic and contested a shift as the term gender. Originally a strictly grammatical category in linguistic description, “gender” was never meant to refer to the biological … Continue reading →

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