One well-done study with a tantalizing possibility and a poorly-done one being leveraged for political gain.
health / science
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Silence May Not Be The Healthiest Way To Sleep
A while back I wrote about how pink noise was helping me sleep. Turns out, I was wrong … about *how much* of a good effect it can have.
science / sociology
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Strawberry Festivals, Treadmill Clothesracks, And Research: When The Claims Don’t Match The Study
Some signs of bad science reporting (and bad science), with examples.
philosophy / science
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When Randomness Is Not Random (But Still Is Random)
The world is deeply, deeply *strange*.
And you can hold that strangeness in the palm of your hand.
review
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How To Betray Your Source Material: A Review of Apple TV’s Foundation
Watch The Expanse instead.
economics / rant / sociology
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Pre Post-Scarcity Blues
We live at the end of an age, the end of a time of almost post-scarcity. Those of us who have grown up in this time have an ahistorical view, one where scarcity barely matters.
That is, those of us in the middle class and up in the global North and West.