Why Thailand was never colonized
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Does daycare damage children's brains?
If it had a clear effect on children we would know by now.
Medical innovation needs you
Saloni's TED talk was published today.
Will factory farming fix itself?
What smog, deforestation, and child labor tell us about the future of animal suffering
Cure all diseases
Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.
The upper limits of biology
The limits of breeding for speed
How ugliness helps NIMBYs
And how beauty could help get more homes built
Are miracle drugs hiding in plain sight?
Watch now | GLP-1 drugs have transformed the treatment of obesity and diabetes, and also help with heart disease, kidney disease and sleep apnea. But they are far from the only medicine with more than one use.
The myth of medieval childhood
Is it really plausible that children survived the hardship of medieval life without devoted parents?
Lessons from a high-fertility subculture
Modernity has meant fewer children in virtually every culture around the world. Do holdouts like Orthodox Jews have lessons for the rest of us?
Why San Francisco isn’t bigger
Large swaths of America’s cities were originally underwater. We stopped half a century ago, but there is plenty more land left to take.