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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
OR: an apology to my English teachers
Adam Mastroianni
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Face it: you're a crazy person
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
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Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals
OR: the long overdue forest fire
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So you wanna de-bog yourself
What I found in the mire
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Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?
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The decline of deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
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Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
A new way to think about brainpower.
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An invitation to a secret society
Or: why you should be a lizard
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How to get 7th graders to smoke
OR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable"
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Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
OR: The Great Switcheroo
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I swear the UFO is coming any minute
Links 'n' updates
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Text Is King
read on, queen
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Research in psychology: are we learning anything?
OR: The mystery of the televised salad
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Incentives are for losers
OR: you must look at this fish and go insane
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I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
The plane crashed and nobody checked the bodies
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Science is a strong-link problem
OR: How to eat fewer asparagus beetles
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Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)
You can still discover stuff, I promise
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“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind
OR: the ideas your mother warned you about
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You can't reach the brain through the ears
Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?
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Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)
A cartel of superstars has conquered culture. How did it happen, and what should we do about it?
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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
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The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing