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“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of sh…t, I try to put the sh…t in the wastebasket.” Hemingway Eighty years
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Many doctors see addiction as a disease of body only. If overdone, this view can lead to medicalization of addiction. Some may argue that the latest
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Finding a mentor can be a challenge for many junior academics because some supervisors don't have time to mentor researchers. If you are seeking a
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Have you ever had an unresolved question and you kept asking again, again and again, until you got the answer? We wanted to find out whether talking
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