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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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Let's stop counting centuries
One-indexing problems in everyday life
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Test scores are not irrelevant
Some claims that test scores don’t predict college success don’t add up.
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The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it
Since around 2009, methamphetamines have been made with phenylacetone (P2P). Is there a chemical different causing schizophrenia?
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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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What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world
Rich countries are not monolithic. However, outside the US and a few microstates, they vary in a limited range.
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Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists
An unhinged polemic
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My attempted cult recruitment
Dark patterns in social behavior
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Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
IRB you kidding me?
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Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics
Report back on how it goes
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Breakdown of data on homeless populations across the U.S.
Many people see a homelessness crisis, but what does the data say? We examine different locations, rates of change, types of homelessness, and mental health and substance abuse issues.
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Make product worse, get money
It’s so easy
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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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Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?
Reflections on a phenomena that’s unique to culture-war topics
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Two conspiracy theories about cola
Does cola contain a drug to prevent you from throwing up from the sugar? And is Mexican Coke somehow better than American Coke?
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So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂
You face certain challenges
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Arguing Without Warning
We should encourage more public disagreement.