Three Indie Science Project Ideas
People often have a sense that all the low-hanging scientific fruit has been picked, or that all the fruit that’s left can only be picked by huge teams with lots of funding. But in fact, there are...
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The superior japanese sunscreen that the FDA doesn’t allow for no reason (per Aaron Bergman) explore the entire US with 1-meter 3D LiDAR data H.G. Wells makes predictions from 1903 about the “house of...
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Cybernetics and Dynamics
When we talk about the paradigm for psychology described in The Mind in the Wheel, we often use the word cybernetic. Cybernetics refers to the study of negative feedback loops and control systems,...
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Shakespeare immortalized particular bear. (Reader discretion for disturbing “descriptions of horses with apes tied to their backs set upon by dogs.”) At least some bears — perhaps the fiercest,...
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For the Love of the Game
Unless you’re stuck in an airport like Tom Hanks in that movie, you’re a citizen of somewhere. So pointing out that someone is a citizen is kind of a non-starter. Yes, they are also made of molecules,...
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Meet the Meetups Czar
Astral Codex Ten (and its predecessor Slate Star Codex) is a wildly popular blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about “a sort of hidden node at the center of art and harmony and rationality and the...
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A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came up with by Looking at the List of...
Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over. An evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory and...
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“Blogs have shaped our philosophical worldviews, found us careers and friends, and changed our lives.” Write Carol and Austin Chen. “But many great bloggers have stopped blogging. … So we’re launching...
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Homework for SMTM-6941: Lithium Problem Sets
Reference Reading A Chemical Hunger, Part VII and Interludes C, G, and H U.S. Geological Survey, Public Water Supplies of the 100 Largest Cities in the United States, 1962 U.S. Geological Survey,...
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You Can Discover the Drives
Humanity has mapped the earth, so you can’t discover any new continents, mountains, oceans, or rivers. We’ve mapped the stars, and though we haven’t named every single asteroid, the major planets and...
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Vesuvius Challenge: An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time Prove You Are Worthy to Post About Diets: People make a lot of claims about digestion, nutrition, and diet on the...
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Para-academia is the future — Bold enough to use the word “sucks” in the first sentence. Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us “Potatoes and cottage cheese for dinner” diet Leaking...
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The big news in blogging this month is Inkhaven 2 (sponsored by WordPress dot com). The first Inkhaven happened back in November 2025, and this one is even more. Wow. This time, about 55 residents...
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My journey to the microwave alternate timeline 14-year-old running for governor is the first teen to get on Vermont’s general election ballot I can’t stop yelling at Claude Code “Imagine being a...
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Effortscaffolding: a Guide
This April will see the return of Inkhaven, a blogging residency program where you have to write and publish at least 500 words a day, every day, for a whole month, or they feed you to the hounds kick...
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Nicky Case: Vitamin D & Omega-3 may have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants. Along with the actual points being made about depression, this essay is a great introduction to effect...
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For the new year: A rationalist’s guide to manifestation Advice for Anarchist Post-Docs — Including genuine gems like: you can expect the typical PI to be very reluctant to fire you for doing a...
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Why Everyone Loves Japan — “Even more astonishing than my interview with Kodansha is the fact that to this day, I have not met a single Japanese person who has heard of the word ‘weeb’.” The Next...
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This month, there was Inkhaven. A total of 41 residents published one piece of writing of at least 500 words every single day for the 30 days of November. That’s a lot of essays, blog posts, poems,...
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The Cybernetics of Alternative Turkey
When the Tofurky research division is working on new alternative protein products, they tend to worry about taste. They tend to worry about appearance. And they tend to worry about texture. If...
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