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Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
30 underrated reasons to be thankful, starting with the fact that atomic bombs don’t ignite the atmosphere
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Plans you're not supposed to talk about
When does talking about a plan ruin it? Marriage, CO2, religion, self-promotion, edgelords, and Chinese medicine.
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My 16-month theanine self-experiment
randomized and blinded, N=1
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Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
Here are some things that I hated as a student. At the time, I thought my teachers didn’t understand or care how terrible they were.
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The health benefits of better air
Why the air you breathe matters, and what to do about it.
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New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?
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How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
We like lists because they are an objectively good way to organize information. They allow readers to quickly and easily get what they want.
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So Much Blood
but how much exactly?
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The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Some skepticism of vitamin D skepticism
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Old jokes
That’s what she said, a rabbi resolves a dispute, and six categories in the Philogelos
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Taxonomy of Procrastination
There’s a little accountant named Jim that lives in my head
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Thoughts on the potato diet
Nine observations about what happens when you eat only potatoes
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Does creatine make you smarter?
And why does the brain use creatine anyway?
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A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes
People with the same big five personality types tend to be more happy, successful, intelligent, creative, and popular. Why aren’t there more tradeoffs?
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The big alcohol study that didn't happen
Why did a huge alcohol RCT get cancelled? A strange story of science, academia, bureaucratic maneuvering, ambition, politics, capitalism, the deep state, secret emails, and slippery ethical slopes.
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Take something you don’t like and try to like it
it offers lessons on your nature
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Nobody optimizes happiness
People don’t seem to try very hard to make themselves happier. Why not?
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Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists
An unhinged polemic
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Underrated reasons to be thankful V
even more
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My attempted cult recruitment
Dark patterns in social behavior
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Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
(Yes, but.)
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
Report back on how it goes
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Maybe there's a pattern here?
Inventors and impacts
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Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
FROM BEING A WASTE TO THE BATHER AND COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING IT BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLICK
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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
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My stupid noise journey (2023)
A tale of bad choices
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Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
Are speed dating and network effects contradictory?
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Pseudpocalypse
Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself.
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LLMs predict my coffee
Why not benchmark with physical experiments?
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Can I take ducks home from the park?
16 queries and 6 language models