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John Locke: “Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them… with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar […]

My to-dos and reminders have gotten out of hand. My to-do app inbox is all kinds of untidy. Stuff sits there week after week not getting done. Probably because I...

When we first learn about money and banking in high school or university, we are all taught that money has three functions: medium of exchan...

Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.

Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.

Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.

Interactive article about the Moon

As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.

Dear friends,

Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

How to get people to NOT contact you

An essay by Austin L. Ray

My wayward months as the best telemarketer in America.

In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held dire...

Agency announces research misconduct finding for neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah as scores of his papers fall under suspicion

CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...

The best supplements are exercise, a good diet and strong relationships.

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It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

The work is the work.

an AI researcher going back to school for immunology

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

How someone I don't know hacked the scammers back