Covid-19: alternate origin stories
Pre-Wuhan Covid-19 in Italy, bioweapons research in Russia and China, and curious coincidences. There’s a lot of credible information that casts doubt on the official story of Covid-19’s origins. Starting with a big... READ MORE
Penisocratic method #2
Exciting year ahead for human space exploration For reasons beyond my understanding, there are people who aren’t closely watching how we’re progressing to the stars. Of course, it’s only the most important thing... READ MORE
Penisocratic Method #1
Today, let me introduce you to a new post format. Here’s the thing: the click-through “tile” design of the website encourages long-form writing. This was a deliberate decision to keep the quality of... READ MORE
Why Scotland is Pakistan
I have a huge discovery to share with you: Scotland is Pakistan. Consider: A mountaineous hinterland full of angry bearded men wearing women’s clothing, who seem to be suspiciously close to their livestock.... READ MORE
The Asian powderkeg
Right now, Asia is a powderkeg with several simultaneously lit fuses. There are at least four conflicts in Asia from which neither side can afford to back down, as the stakes are too... READ MORE
The vibranium shield of willful ignorance
Nobody is more imaginative than a person who doesn’t want to concede an obvious point. As the internet brought 24/7 global debates, it also brought rapid innovation in the field of being a... READ MORE
La dolce vita
How sweet something tastes is clearly a matter of acclimation. When you cut sugar from your diet, your sense of sweetness gets “downregulated” in a few weeks. Afterwards, sweet things often taste too... READ MORE
Technology and magic
People are wrong in many curious ways. A new one I noticed is assuming that a goal is silly, because people in the past tried to achieve it in silly ways. The thinking,... READ MORE
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Covid-19: alternate origin stories
Pre-Wuhan Covid-19 in Italy, bioweapons research in Russia and China, and curious coincidences. There’s a lot of credible information that casts doubt on the official story of Covid-19’s origins. Starting with a big one, Covid-19 antibodies were detected in Italy months before the Wuhan … Continued
Penisocratic method #2
Exciting year ahead for human space exploration For reasons beyond my understanding, there are people who aren’t closely watching how we’re progressing to the stars. Of course, it’s only the most important thing in the world. So here’s what’s coming … Continued
Penisocratic Method #1
Today, let me introduce you to a new post format. Here’s the thing: the click-through “tile” design of the website encourages long-form writing. This was a deliberate decision to keep the quality of posts high and discourage filler content, but … Continued
Why Scotland is Pakistan
I have a huge discovery to share with you: Scotland is Pakistan. Consider: A mountaineous hinterland full of angry bearded men wearing women’s clothing, who seem to be suspiciously close to their livestock. Cuisine based on bits of sheep the … Continued
The Asian powderkeg
Right now, Asia is a powderkeg with several simultaneously lit fuses. There are at least four conflicts in Asia from which neither side can afford to back down, as the stakes are too great, there is no prospect of a … Continued
The vibranium shield of willful ignorance
Nobody is more imaginative than a person who doesn’t want to concede an obvious point. As the internet brought 24/7 global debates, it also brought rapid innovation in the field of being a dishonest intransigent asswipe in the face of … Continued
La dolce vita
How sweet something tastes is clearly a matter of acclimation. When you cut sugar from your diet, your sense of sweetness gets “downregulated” in a few weeks. Afterwards, sweet things often taste too sweet. So I have a plan to … Continued
Technology and magic
People are wrong in many curious ways. A new one I noticed is assuming that a goal is silly, because people in the past tried to achieve it in silly ways. The thinking, if it can be called that, goes … Continued
The Legasov principle
People in all totalitarian societies are familiar with the difference between members of the power structures being “with them”, or merely “among them”. The first refers to true believers (or sociopaths) who are the hard core of the regime. The … Continued
The most adaptable thing in nature
Tardigrades can survive an extremely broad range of environments, including: Temperatures between -272°C (a degree above absolute zero) and 150°C. Pressures between a hard vacuum and 6000 atmospheres (six times the pressure at the bottom at the Mariana trench). 10 … Continued
Why kids want to stay up late
It took me a hell of a long time to figure out why 2-10 year olds absolutely insist on staying up way beyond what adults would consider a reasonable hour. “Nooo I don’t wanna go to sleep!” Surely, that’s maladaptive … Continued
To cure existential ennui, get better underpants
We’re so out of touch with our bodies we routinely mistake physical discomfort for psychological. Most of the time, we’re in our heads, and focused on fairly cerebral tasks in an almost “out of body” state. As a result, physical … Continued
Dating site survey finds something else than authors think, vol. 189 000 000
According to a survey, which The Times cited without linking to it so I won’t either because I can’t find it, the best thing to say in your online dating profile is that you’re “outdoorsy”. For the sheer magnitude of … Continued
Accurate Dictionary
In a time of muddled language and words losing all meaning, it falls to the best and brightest among us to engage in a heroic effort to make language correspond to reality again, a Herculean, Confucius-inspired work of rectification of … Continued
Monday Mood Lifters
A wild pig has recently wandered into the center of my city, panicked and knocked over a Japanese tourist. She’ll be sharing the story of getting attacked by a boar in the middle of a medieval city for the rest … Continued
Why the blank slate is sticky
The notion that laws of nature apply to humans gets called a lot of nasty names, such as “biological determinism”, but it is simply consistent science. This really shouldn’t be controversial. We now know all human traits have a genetic … Continued
I should do book reading livestreams
You know how teenagers make billions of dollars live-streaming building roller-coasters in Minecraft? This gave me an idea. Live streaming, but with reading and commenting on books. What think y’all? There’s one potential issue (besides the astronomical odds of the … Continued
The breathing cure for depression
I may have solved another issue almost everyone has. It has to be the most googled health topic after sex stuff: brain fog, fatigue, low energy, trouble concentrating, anxiety, depression, feeling stuck in second gear, malaise. You know exactly what … Continued
The commercial case for Mars
First of all, commercializing Mars is not the point – colonizing Mars and becoming multiplanetary is good in itself. That being said, anything that’s self-sustaining and self-replicating grows exponentially to fill all available space. In the case of space, that’s a … Continued
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[Satire] Make money online with this super-secret guide to day-trading
To sit on a boat in the Carribean, executing billion dollar trades from your laptop – isn’t that the dream? Day trading stocks, bonds, currencies, options, commodities and the like is one of those things that twenty-somethings sitting at their … Continued