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And yet it remains an anachronism: a privately held business controlled by a deeply private family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

They tested dasatinib, a drug that can briefly suppress cell activity, to see how controlled pauses might affect performance.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

Peltz Beckham ended the post writing, “I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

To isolate the issue, Duffy and Li designed a controlled experiment with people ages 45 to 55.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

But I wouldn’t be keeping within my experiment’s controlled variables if I used a nonhuman participant.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas