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2022

Aug 8 Shorts: Noise, Indian cheetahs, and Fighting Joe

Aug 4 Old jokes

Aug 1 No soap radio

Jul 28 Nobody optimizes happiness

Jul 25 Litter and circles of internalization

Jul 21 Notes on the Balkans

Jul 18 What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world

Jul 11 Thoughts on the potato diet

Jul 7 Shorts for July

Jul 4 Blocked persons and letters of marque

Jun 27 Candidate final bosses

Jun 20 Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

Jun 16 Aspartame: Once more unto the breach

Jun 13 Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

Jun 9 Why it's bad to kill Grandma

Jun 6 Social dynamics of bluetooth speakers

Jun 2 Shorts for June

May 30 What caused the hallucinations of the Oracle of Delphi?

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