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To deepen one’s engagement is to be absorbed in nuance and complexity, but also to emerge with greater clarity and understanding. This is precisely what the essays in the Winter 2024 issue aim to do. We invite you to deepen your engagement with—among many other topics—the limits of data, artificial intelligence, sustainable regional growth, and the mysteries of the Loop Current.
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