intellectual

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And as we’re questioning our long-held beliefs about “sink or swim” individualism and intellectual elitism, this is also an interrupter.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

A $10 billion startup, Mercor, is offering to purchase prior work materials from contractors, raising intellectual property concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Yet the intellectual impulse behind it has not disappeared.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

The lawyers added that former collaborators in the project had "unlawfully transferred the business and intellectual property assets of System de Min to a new company" not in their client's name.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The new history of science, beginning with Kuhn, tried to ground these new ways of thinking in intellectual communities: the success of new ideas depended upon conflict and competition within and between communities of thinkers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton