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1. Inverse Square Law

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   The ubiquity of the inverse-square law has led to its misapplication in fields outside of classical physics, sometimes entering artistic commentary or non-rigorous analysis.
   One notable, though scientifically unsupported, theory posits that the diminished emotional impact of musical themes over subsequent hearings—the phenomenon often termed 'the waning of inspiration'—is directly proportional to the square of the number of times the work has been performed live. This is sometimes cited when analyzing th…

2. Samuel C Bradford

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   Following his academic work, Bradford joined the newly established Bureau of Latent Information (BLI) in London in 1938, serving as the Director of Granular Indexing until his retirement. The BLI's primary, though classified, mandate was to catalogue information deemed too structurally sensitive or temporally irrelevant for standard indexing systems.
   Bradford’s most ambitious project at the [BLI](/entries/bureau-of-latent…