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White Paper: The Problem of Ownership Claims Without Product and the Contribution Threshold for Legitimate Credit

Posted on December 11, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Across creative industries, research environments, entrepreneurial ventures, and institutional collaborations, disputes frequently arise over who deserves credit or ownership. A growing pattern involves individuals asserting ownership rights or demanding credit on the basis of having had an idea—even … Continue reading →

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White Paper: From Isolated Works to New Genres — Understanding Artistic Transitions and Their Defining Marks

Posted on December 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Artistic innovation often begins as a solitary anomaly: a painting that defies conventions, a novel that reorganizes narrative time, a musical track that deploys new production techniques, or a film that reconfigures genre boundaries. Yet only some of … Continue reading →

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White Paper: When Periodic Corporate Strategy Planning Aligns with Organizational Crisis Periods: Structural Causes, Behavioral Dynamics, and Governance Implications

Posted on December 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Many organizations conduct corporate strategy planning on predictable annual, biennial, or triennial cycles. Paradoxically, these “routine” planning windows often coincide with moments of crisis—financial stress, leadership turnover, market disruption, or internal conflict. This alignment is not accidental. It … Continue reading →

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White Paper: How NIL and For-Profit Athletic Ventures Could Turn College Athletes into Employees – And What That Would Mean

Posted on December 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The rapid commercialization of college sports—driven by Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights, revenue-sharing settlements, and now private-equity–backed joint ventures—has pushed the NCAA’s “amateurism” model to a breaking point. The University of Utah’s proposed private-equity partnership with Otro … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Penalties for Calling Individuals on the Do Not Call List and Policy Responses to the Rising Crisis of Spoofed Calls

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Unwanted telemarketing calls, illegal robocalls, and spoofed caller IDs together make up one of the most persistent consumer-protection challenges in the United States. Despite the presence of the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry, the Telephone Consumer Protection … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Political Causes of Split Highway Numbers and the Consequences of Primary, Secondary, and Split Road Labels

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Highway numbering is often assumed to be a neutral technical exercise, but in practice it is a deeply political process. Split numbers—instances where a single route number is assigned to two or more discontinuous or parallel branches—arise from … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Artificial Intelligence in Biblical Hermeneutics and the Essential Role of Proper Prompt Design

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large-language models (LLMs), is rapidly becoming a central tool for those who study Scripture—pastors, scholars, lay teachers, and content creators alike. While AI can accelerate research, generate linguistic insights, and offer comparative perspectives on … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Examining the Fallout From the 2025 CFB Playoff Bracket

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Given: ACC champion Duke goes 8–5, wins the league, but is left out of the 12-team playoff. Miami goes 10–2, does not make the ACC title game, but gets an at-large bid. Tulane and James Madison, both Group of 5 … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Necessity of Epistemological Humility in Human Judgment and Action

Posted on December 8, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Epistemological humility—the recognition of our limited knowledge, fallible reasoning, and susceptibility to error—is not merely a philosophical virtue. It is a practical necessity for individuals, institutions, and societies navigating an increasingly complex world. Human understanding is unavoidably partial, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Biblicist Grounds for Re-Baptism When Conversion Occurs After an Earlier Baptism

Posted on December 8, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines whether Scripture provides grounds for a Christian to be re-baptized if he or she believes true conversion took place after a prior baptism. A strictly biblicist approach reveals that Scripture neither trivializes baptism nor … Continue reading →

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