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2022
May 26
Don't blame ethylene for bad tomatoes
May 23
Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with? Six models
May 19
The madness of reduced medical diagnostics
May 16
Why nuclear weapons aren't getting bigger
May 11
So you want to invent a nuclear weapon
May 9
Ethylene in the food supply chain
May 5
Ethylene for fun and profit and produce
Apr 5
My attempted cult recruitment
Apr 4
Creative nonfiction training exercises
Apr 1
Why I don't believe in long-term thinking
Mar 24
Arguing without warning
Mar 21
You, your parents, and the hotness of who you marry
Mar 17
How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
Mar 11
Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
Mar 7
Do economies tend to converge or diverge?
Feb 16
The conspiratorial Monty Hall problem
Feb 14
So you're thinking about writing on the internet
Feb 14
Warby Parker multiverse
Feb 9
My best estimate is that gas stoves decrease life expectancy by 53 days on average
Feb 1
Reasons and Persons: The case against the self
Jan 24
How to use analogies for good not evil
Jan 10
Things you're doing but don't want to be doing
2021
Dec 21
Homosexuality and evolution
Dec 14
Plans you're not supposed to talk about
Dec 7
Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves
Dec 2
How many extra days of life do you get from taking statins?
Nov 30
Effective selfishness
Nov 26
How the United States didn't ban the death penalty
Nov 25
Underrated reasons to be thankful
Nov 24
How France banned the death penalty
Nov 23
How the United Kingdom banned the death penalty
Nov 22
How Germany banned the death penalty
Nov 22
The death penalty as a lens on democracy
Nov 11
A breakdown of the data on the homeless crisis across the U.S.
Oct 26
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it
Oct 20
Two conspiracy theories about cola
Oct 4
The big alcohol study that didn't happen: My primal scream of rage
Aug 26
Statistical nihilism and culture-war island hopping
Aug 19
Political polarization is partly a sample bias illusion
Aug 17
Is there a general factor of intelligence?
Jul 15
What is heritability, really? Just a ratio.
Jul 1
Does the gender-equality paradox actually exist?
Jun 17
A review of early split-brain experiments
May 30
Alcohol, health, and the ruthless logic of the Asian flush
May 6
Are some personalities just better?
Apr 18
The case against ultrasonic humidifiers
Apr 14
Do standardized tests predict success in college?
Apr 2
Better air quality is the easiest way not to die
Feb 26
The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan
Feb 7
What I learned from reading about writing
Jan 28
Are ethics all a lie?
Jan 25
How to run without all the pesky agonizing pain
Jan 15
What happens if you don't fill out that ethnicity form?
2020
Dec 22
Napoleon's failure in Russia as an analogy for T-cell based viral immunity
Dec 15
Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s
Dec 9
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Dec 3
Why I'm skeptical of universal basic income
Nov 23
Why fairness is basically unobservable
Nov 21
Policy proposals and what we don't know about them
Nov 16
Simpson's paradox is deeper than you think
Oct 30
The simplest possible way to convert Celsius and Fahrenheit
Oct 29
Pragmatic reasons to believe in formal ethics
Oct 19
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings
Oct 12
The veil of darkness
Oct 8
Your ratios don't prove what you think they prove
Sep 29
Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew
Sep 17
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
Sep 14
What happens if you drink acetone?
Sep 11
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island
Jun 12
In defense of Myers-Briggs