Per aspera is actually the best way ad astra
There’s a theory called the “pump of evolution” that says mass extinction events were necessary for the rise of complex life, and eventually intelligence, although anyone who has spent more than five...
View ArticleThe pursuit of happiness as a leading cause of depression
Reportedly, a depression epidemic is sweeping the developed world, and especially its young people. One, that’s at least partly an effect of better diagnostic capture, not there being more of it – as...
View ArticleMake money online with this super-secret guide to day-trading
To sit on a boat in the Carribean, executing billion dollar trades from your laptop – isn’t that the dream? Day trading stocks, bonds, currencies, options, commodities and the like is one of those...
View ArticleThe breathing cure for depression
I may have solved another issue almost everyone has. It has to be the most googled health topic after sex stuff: brain fog, fatigue, low energy, trouble concentrating, anxiety, depression, feeling...
View ArticleWhy the blank slate is sticky
The notion that laws of nature apply to humans gets called a lot of nasty names, such as “biological determinism”, but it is simply consistent science. This really shouldn’t be controversial. We now...
View ArticleAccurate Dictionary
In a time of muddled language and words losing all meaning, it falls to the best and brightest among us to engage in a heroic effort to make language correspond to reality again, a Herculean,...
View ArticleTo cure existential ennui, get better underpants
We’re so out of touch with our bodies we routinely mistake physical discomfort for psychological. Most of the time, we’re in our heads, and focused on fairly cerebral tasks in an almost “out of body”...
View ArticleWhy kids want to stay up late
It took me a hell of a long time to figure out why 2-10 year olds absolutely insist on staying up way beyond what adults would consider a reasonable hour. “Nooo I don’t wanna go to sleep!” Surely,...
View ArticleTechnology and magic
People are wrong in many curious ways. A new one I noticed is assuming that a goal is silly, because people in the past tried to achieve it in silly ways. The thinking, if it can be called that, goes …...
View ArticleLa dolce vita
How sweet something tastes is clearly a matter of acclimation. When you cut sugar from your diet, your sense of sweetness gets “downregulated” in a few weeks. Afterwards, sweet things often taste too...
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