Feb 22 The Fastest Retraction Ever On December 26, 2023, someone posted a message on Reddit saying that one in five husbands leave their wives if Feb 22, 2024 8 min read
Feb 08 The Seeds of Change Crop rotation – the practice of leaving some portion of fields fallow during a given season – developed early in the history Feb 8, 2024 4 min read
Feb 01 The Reading Crisis About 48 million adults in the United States struggle to read. And it's estimated that more than half Feb 1, 2024 4 min read
Jan 25 Absolutist Thinking There's a Twitter grab that I couldn't find that goes something like this: A: I really Jan 25, 2024 5 min read
Dec 21 Faster Than the Speed of Thought A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the Dec 21, 2023 4 min read
Dec 14 I'm Suspicious of Stories One of the first rules of science communication is that you need "to tell a story". Stories are Dec 14, 2023 4 min read
Nov 30 Have recipes changed? Like so many observations about life, I'm not sure if things have changed or if I'm 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 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