Mad Science Blogging
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 crash. A game-playing agent accrues points by falsely inserting its name as the author of high-value items. These bizarre exploits and […]
“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 the Blog Revival Project, to crowdfund $1,000+ bounties for good bloggers.” We plug ADS who they already have on the list and would consider […]
Reference Reading Background Information In clinical settings, lithium is usually prescribed as lithium carbonate, and doses are given in milligrams (mg) of the compound. But lithium carbonate is only 18.8% elemental lithium (the rest is carbonate), so the dose of elemental lithium is much lower than the face amount. For example, if you are prescribed […]
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 comets are already taken. We’ve filled in the periodic table, so you can’t discover any new elements. No chance to name Nobelium or […]
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 internet. … It is helpful, then, to have a heuristic to tell the iconoclastic geniuses apart from the grifters and bullshitters. […]
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 Abandoned Well in West Texas (h/t A. Weis) Age of Invention: Why Scotland Succeeded
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 (it’s hard to count exactly since some staff members are also ~residents) published one blog post of at least 500 […]
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 typical person living in England from 1520 to 2020 (500 years) but experiencing time 100x slower than everyone else” “here is what i […]
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 you out. As bloggers who mostly write 10,000-plus-word effortposts, this format is both fascinating and alienating […]
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 sizes. A lot of population numbers are fake Cosimo Research: 💤 Does Mouth Taping Reduce Snoring? & 🫥 Does Mouth Taping Change Facial […]