Adam Mastroianni

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad. Click to read Experimental History, by Adam Mastroianni, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

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OR: an apology to my English teachers

Face it: you're a crazy person

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OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter

So you wanna de-bog yourself

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What I found in the mire

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

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A new way to think about brainpower.

An invitation to a secret society

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Or: why you should be a lizard

How to get 7th graders to smoke

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OR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable"

Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos

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OR: The Great Switcheroo

I swear the UFO is coming any minute

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Links 'n' updates

Text Is King

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read on, queen

You can't reach the brain through the ears

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Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

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Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"