Loud & Wrong
Bourdain Statements: saying a false thing loudly to provoke other people to correct you.
Issues — page 3
On the Beating of Children and Other Apparently Fine Things
Being a kid is just like having a regular 9-to-5 job, but you also may get your ass kicked.
In Praise of Jock Values
In high school there are jocks and nerds, and if you're reading this I'm going to assume you were the latter.
One of the Biggest Stories of the Century Happened, We Just Don’t Know Which
There's only 3 possibilities, and all of them are bananas.
Book Review: Yąnomamö: The Fierce People
Napoleon Chagnon's book was so poorly received that he was accused of committing genocide via measles. Needless to say, I was intrigued.
We Picked Right with Einstein
Our intellectual role model should be the most moral person we can find that’s at least passable as a “smart person”. What we got is a moral sage that’s passable as the most influential mind of all time.
Rags-to-Riches of the Century: Francis Ngannou
He nearly bled to death in the desert and crossed the Mediterranean on a pool toy. It'd be movie-worthy if he became an accountant in Cleveland, but instead, he became World Champion.
The Best Prediction Ever: Darwin and the Founder Effect
How did Charles Darwin make the best prediction ever? Why are there more accents in the UK than in the US? Why are there yellow watermelons in Africa? Weirdly these all have the same answer.
Negative Opportunity Cost
Economists rate opportunity cost as the most important economic concept for the public to understand. Turns out it comes in two flavors.
When Bits Split Atoms
Artificial Intelligence and that time the US Secretary of Defense thought we were all going to die.