And the universe said you are the universe
On childhood, black holes and meeting your heroes
Unpublishable Papers
Ideas about what makes humans so brilliant, terrible, and utterly weird -- none of which would make it past peer-review.
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The New York Times is publishing AI slop
And why that's bad, in case you still need convincing
How to make more prodigies
Mainly, give the kids money for butterflies
In Lesotho, the mushroom speaks
Or: the first good evidence of classical psychedelic use outside the Americas
A mortal sin of argumentation
It is fruitless to argue against something that your interlocutor does not believe
Cognitive Anthropology Takes On Extraordinary Beliefs and Child Freedom
A recording from Eli Stark-Elster and Tommy Blanchard's live video
Automation will set science free
It was always about the questions
To the Stone-Cutters
Notes from the Field #2
School is way worse for kids than social media
On building a world that doesn’t make children stressed, anxious, and sad
It costs money to share the future
On AI, targeted advertising, and the subtle cruelty of paternalism