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If 'shark bear' is the answer, what was the question?

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By Samuel Arbesman
October 17, 2010

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John Horton, a graduate student in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (and a friend of mine), has created a project known as Mechanical Proust. It combines two rather different things. He begins with the well established Proust Questionnaire, designed to gain insight into an individual’s personality. (Full article: 778 words)

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