GrokInFullness

I once had this silly idea for a comedy skit in which there was a town inhabited by a single man who did every job in town. In the early mo...

Usually it’s a good thing when people who don’t share your values nevertheless agree with you on some policy position. You can at least for...

When I first read it, Steven Pinker’s description of the Hobbesian trap gave me chills. Violence isn’t just something that’s “innate” or “h...

Step 1: Bake a pie. Step 2: Fuck it up. Be careful not to confuse this with the “American Pie” cobbler recipe, which differs by exac...

The following is from Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom. The book (and Ostrom’s body of research more broadly) is about how communiti...

Ibogaine is an African plant with hallucinogenic properties. I recently read about it in the excellent book Illegal Drugs by Paul Gahlinge...

The following chart appeared already in a previous post , but here it is once again for reference: All data comes from the CDC...