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The Normie Diet
A normal person’s guide to seed oils, sugar, and greens.
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New Growth
Permies, a forum started by Paul Wheaton, is a walled garden for the greenthumbed.
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Uncurated Pleasures
Sorting treasure from trash in the digital dumpster.
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Escaping the Cage
How organoids can help free animals from lab testing.
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Cancelling Noise
When dissonance is the drug of modern life, silence and contemplation are essential.
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In Defense of Ugly Children
Pronatalists promise a dystopia where the strong prevail and the weak do customer service.
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Desire Crisis
Many in our digitized world are in mourning for the illusion of difference and separateness that an earlier existence allowed us to experience.
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Border Conflict
Borderline personality disorder is both a media construct and a diagnostic No Man’s Land.
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Digital Calories
Software developers keep dishing out apps rife with salts and sugars. Who will serve us wine instead?
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Designs for Mercy
Against the synthetic industriousness of modern building, Christopher Alexander advocated for slow and patient attention, for stillness and care.
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Screaming Match
Making sense of a moment where noise is televised, digitized, and auto-tuned, and silence is an oppressive luxury.
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Sliding into Pavlov’s DMs
Learning models can help explain why people are replacing face-to-face interactions with screens.
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Bad Brains
A scandal involving years of fabricated Alzheimer’s research and millions in grant money has placed academic practice under a microscope.
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Writing Downstream
Jim Harrison embodied a type of author long thought extinct: an adventurer who sought out confrontation with the elements.
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Are You Paying Attention?
Whether difference or disorder, ADHD is the psychological marrow of the information age.
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The Fat of the Land
A Twitter collective of “mad scientists” want to solve the obesity epidemic.
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Up From Bimboism
Feminism under the iron law of vibe shifts and the mandatory fun of online irony.
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The Incel Galaxy
Naama Kates’s podcast, Incel, says you’re wrong about the internet’s most hated subculture.
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The Object in Conflict
Objects come to life when they’re wielded in cultural warring.
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Atoms to Atoms, Dust to Dust
Nuclear energy is not utopian. But it is clean, powerful, and held back by an environmentalism that predates the climate crisis.
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