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Apr 25, 2024

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Why New Yorkers aren’t Sharks and Terrorists aren’t Cancer

Or, what happens when statistics loses touch with reality

Nov 15, 2022

Black and dark navy image of the a small section of the ocean. The image gives a sense of the deepness of the ocean.

Nov 15, 2022

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The Chicken or The Egg?

It was the egg

Sep 30, 2018

A photo of a chicken egg against a strong red background, with a slight shadow of the egg off to the right.

Sep 30, 2018

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Can We See With Our Skin?

What is “seeing” anyway?

Apr 24, 2024

A young white man with short, slightly-ginger hair, wearing a black T-shirt and sitting and leaning back on his right arm in a field of tall green and amber grass and while flowers. It’s a sunny day, his eyes and closed and his face is turned towards the sun.

Apr 24, 2024

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Evolutionary Psychology Can Tell You Who You Are

And it doesn’t mean you’re a sex-crazed psychopath or that you don’t love your children

Mar 22, 2024

An art installation of four black metal silhouettes depicting hominid evolution, progressing from left to right, and a man dressed in blue jeans, a red t-shirt and a cap in the last position, looking down at his phone in his hand. The installation is in Porto, Portugal, on a sunny day, with a clear blue sky and tower cranes, apartment buildings, street lights and a car in the background to the left, and what looks to be a large old brick warehouse in the background on the right.

Mar 22, 2024

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A Bit of Pain Never Hurt Anyone

Why avoiding pain means avoiding life

Mar 17, 2024

Mar 17, 2024

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I Used to Believe In Something, Now I Just Collect Ideas

The beliefs we hold have a hold on us, but ideas can set us free

Mar 9, 2024

A photo of a copy of The Book of Mormon being held up by a hand against a blurry background on fishing boats in a dock with an overcast blue sky and green hills. The book and hand are in sharp focus and in a different light to the boats, suggesting that the book may be held up to a different photo, or cropped into this one.

Mar 9, 2024

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How Many of You If We Cut Your Brain in Two?

Do we split the self when we split the brain, and what does this tell us about our unified selves?

Feb 6, 2024

A black and white underwater image of girl in a black one-piece bathing suit in a pool, with the reflection obscuring her head such that her neck and the reflection of her neck meet at the water line. The image is rotated 180 degrees so that the reflection is the bottom, upright version of the girl.

Feb 6, 2024

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Why is it Bad to Buy Babies, Bodies, Blood, and Burusera?

Why do we morally object to the sale of some things and not others?

Jan 23, 2024

A baby sitting in an empty shopping trolley in an aisle of a department store with shelves full of colourful items.

Jan 23, 2024

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What Do You Do For Work?

What is work? And why do we think we don’t want to do it?

Jan 9, 2024

An over-the-shoulder photo of a 2-year old blonde boy in front of a laptop with his hands on the keyboard.

Jan 9, 2024

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Productivity is A Waste of Time

What matters is the meaning

Jan 5, 2024

Stacks of pre-fab concrete tunnel sections behind a cross-link fence against a cloudy sky.

Jan 5, 2024

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Fame and Fortune Are A Waste of Time

You can’t plan them, you can’t plan anything, you just don’t have the time

Dec 30, 2023

A giant mirrored cube covering a construction site in Place du Palais-Royal, Paris, France. The cube is hard to make out because it nearly perfectly reflects the images of the adjacent buildings, making it look like they simply continue into the mirror, as well as the cloudy blue sky.

Dec 30, 2023

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Free Will is Beyond Your Control

Everything is

Nov 29, 2023

A photo of the wall of the Barragem Marques da Silva dam in Serra da Estrela, Portugal. Taken from the road that runs along the wall, which can be seen i the bottom right of the image, all set against a slightly cloudy blu sky.

Nov 29, 2023

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Who Can I Blame if There’s No Free Will?

Thoughts on blame and justice in a deterministic world

Oct 6, 2023

The entrance to a criminal court, with the words “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW” carved in the top stone thats sits atop the eight Greek-style white pillars. A lone guard in a white shirt stands to the left of the image at the top of the stairs and the base of the pillar.

Oct 6, 2023

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Can Some People See The Future?

A rational argument for clairvoyance

Sep 30, 2023

A foggy forest dirt road in the Australian outback, with dar green foliage and tall trees lining the road, and the end of the road invisible in the fog.

Sep 30, 2023

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I write about science, psychology, philosophy and life | Hire me for writing and research on Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~016131672e7cc85d9d

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