Nov 30 Have recipes changed? Like so many observations about life, I'm not sure if things have changed or if I'm just growing older. But Nov 30, 2023 4 min read
Nov 23 When plans are overrated The Magic streamer Kenji "Numot the Nummy" Egashira does something unusual. He doesn't make guides to help people understand the Nov 23, 2023 3 min read
Nov 16 The Ranking Trope I’ve always admired my son’s Bartebly-like resistance to one of the most common questions that adults ask children: Nov 16, 2023 2 min read
Nov 09 The Threads of Bad Science How do you extract bad science from your head? During one of my previous jobs, I had to pore over Nov 9, 2023 3 min read
Nov 02 Learning is Path Dependent Prior to the summer of 2022, my son had no interest in rockets. Trains? Yes. Fire trucks? Yes. Planes? Hell Nov 2, 2023 2 min read
Oct 26 When Information Sours Decision-Making I began playing poker in the early aughts. No-limit-holdem was skyrocketing to popularity, online casinos were offering absurd bonuses to Oct 26, 2023 3 min read
Oct 19 Why Won't Science Tell Me The Answer? Science is often portrayed as an activity that provides answers. And so it does. To get to the moon, you Oct 19, 2023 1 min read
Oct 12 Lessons from The Mozart Effect Can listening to Mozart make your kid more intelligent? The Mozart Effect wasn't the original quirky psychology finding. But it Oct 12, 2023 7 min read
Oct 05 Government by Crisis In 1038, a young leader from "The Great State of White and High" (AKA Xi Xia) decided to start a Oct 5, 2023 3 min read
Sep 28 The Best Book No One Has Read It's bad when academics don't even read your book. Alistair Crombie's magnum opus, "Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Sep 28, 2023 3 min read