DYNOMIGHT

2022

Jan 10 Things you're doing but don't want to be doing

2021

Dec 21 Evolutionary outcomes reflect values you might not share

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 General intelligence vs. general physical fitness

Jul 15 It’s perfectly valid for a trait to be more than 100% heritable

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 The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

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 and the tyranny of strata

Oct 30 Temperature conversion for the lazy and simple-minded

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