The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
[Epistemic status: Somewhat confident in the medical analysis, a little out of my depth discussing t
There’s a silly subreddit called r/totallynotrobots where people pretend to be badly-disguised robot
I. Did cultural evolution create sexual purity taboos to prevent the spread of STIs? A few weeks ago
Philip Morris is pivoting to smoke-free cigarettes, because “society expects us to act responsibly,
Last week I reviewed Alex Tabarrok and Eric Helland’s Why Are The Prices So D*mn High?. On Marginal
I. Recently spotted on Tumblr: “This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I see stuff about ppl
Peter Gerdes says: As the examples of the Nicaraguan deaf children left on their own to develop th
Why have prices for services like health care and education risen so much over the past fifty years?
[Previously in sequence: Epistemic Learned Helplessness, Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success, Lis
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[Previously in sequence: Epistemic Learned Helplessness] I. “Culture is the secret of humanity’s suc
[This is a slightly edited repost of an essay from my old LiveJournal] A friend recently complained
[Content warning: Discussion of social justice, discussion of violence, spoilers for Jacqueline Care
I was surprised how many people responded to my APA photo-essay with comments like “Seems psychiatry
The first thing you notice at the American Psychiatric Association meeting is its size. By conservat
Enquist et al on lactation fetishes is one of my favorite papers. They wonder – as we’ve all wondere
Psychologists are split on the existence of “birth order effects”, where oldest siblings will have d
There’s been an explosion of interest in the use of psychedelics in psychiatry. Like everyone else,
In 1996, some researchers discovered that depressed people often had an unusual version of the serot
