alcohol cleanAir communication economics explainer gameTheory history math personality philosophy policy science selfImprovement statistics writing
alcohol
The big alcohol study that didn't happen: My primal scream of rage
Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
cleanAir
The case against ultrasonic humidifiers
Better air quality is the easiest way not to die
The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan
Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s
communication
Effective selfishness
What I learned from reading about writing
Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew
economics
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Why I'm skeptical of universal basic income
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island
explainer
What happens if you don't fill out that ethnicity form?
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island
gameTheory
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island
history
How the United States didn't ban the death penalty
How France banned the death penalty
How the United Kingdom banned the death penalty
How Germany banned the death penalty
The death penalty as a lens on democracy
math
Simpson's paradox and the tyranny of strata
Temperature conversion for the lazy and simple-minded
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
personality
General intelligence vs. general physical fitness
It’s perfectly valid for a trait to be more than 100% heritable
Does the gender-equality paradox actually exist?
Are some personalities just better?
In defense of Myers-Briggs
philosophy
Evolutionary outcomes reflect values you might not share
Plans you're not supposed to talk about
Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves
Underrated reasons to be thankful
Are ethics all a lie?
Pragmatic reasons to believe in formal ethics
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings
policy
How the United States didn't ban the death penalty
How France banned the death penalty
How the United Kingdom banned the death penalty
How Germany banned the death penalty
The death penalty as a lens on democracy
A breakdown of the data on the homeless crisis across the U.S.
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it
The big alcohol study that didn't happen: My primal scream of rage
Statistical nihilism and culture-war island hopping
Political polarization is partly a sample bias illusion
Does the gender-equality paradox actually exist?
The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated
What happens if you don't fill out that ethnicity form?
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Why fairness is basically unobservable
Policy proposals and what we don't know about them
The veil of darkness
Your ratios don't prove what you think they prove
Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew
science
Evolutionary outcomes reflect values you might not share
How many extra days of life do you get from taking statins?
Underrated reasons to be thankful
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it
Two conspiracy theories about cola
The big alcohol study that didn't happen: My primal scream of rage
A review of early split-brain experiments
Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
Better air quality is the easiest way not to die
The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan
Napoleon's failure in Russia as an analogy for T-cell based viral immunity
Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s
Temperature conversion for the lazy and simple-minded
What happens if you drink acetone?
selfImprovement
Things you're doing but don't want to be doing
How many extra days of life do you get from taking statins?
Effective selfishness
Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
How to run without all the pesky agonizing pain
statistics
A breakdown of the data on the homeless crisis across the U.S.
Statistical nihilism and culture-war island hopping
Political polarization is partly a sample bias illusion
General intelligence vs. general physical fitness
It’s perfectly valid for a trait to be more than 100% heritable
Does the gender-equality paradox actually exist?
Are some personalities just better?
The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated
Why fairness is basically unobservable
Policy proposals and what we don't know about them
Simpson's paradox and the tyranny of strata
The veil of darkness
Your ratios don't prove what you think they prove
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
In defense of Myers-Briggs
writing
What I learned from reading about writing