Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists

Conspiracy theory: Electric cars make more air pollution than gas cars

WHO aspartame brouhaha

Numbers without which it's impossible to talk about weight loss

Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach

The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)

First-principles on AI scaling

Taxonomy of Procrastination

The Hard Problem of Feelings

Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics

Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain

The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

Vaccine development against methamphetamine drug addiction

A Model for Journalistic Copypasta

Old jokes

Rules for Weird Ideas

Thoughts on the Potato Diet

Nobody Optimizes Happiness

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

Blocked Persons and Letters of Marque

Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

Diet Coke probably isn't a cognitive performance enhancer

Why it's bad to kill Grandma

What caused the hallucinations of the Oracle of Delphi?

The madness of reduced medical diagnostics

Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?

My attempted cult recruitment

Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate

Is there a general factor of intelligence?

I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list

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