The Effect of Video Watching on Children's Skills

Friction Was the Feature

Did prison just replace mental hospitals?

'This Is the War Against Human Nature'

Some Economics of Artificial Super Intelligence

The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career

Bushmen Paradox

There has to be a better way to make titanium

Bitcoin Falls Below $95000. 2 Major Factors Are Driving It Lower

Denmark faces £400M legal bill after failed pursuit of hedge fund trader

Alex Karp Questions the Value of a College Degree–His Company Made Alternative

No one knows the answer, and that's the point

John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse

The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bonds

What Happened to SF Homelessness?

Causation Does Not Imply Variation

Bill Gates Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

What If AI Is a Bubble?

AI is making hedge funds unable to hedge

The Young Women Grappling with an 'Old Man's Disease'

AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn

Decorating with Information Density

The Roman Empire's Road Network Just Got Mapped, and It's Mind-Blowing

The Kennedy Center Crackup

One-Third of US Families Earn over $150k

Derek Thompson on the Anti-Social Century

More from Less: Optimizing Vaccine Doses

The MAHA-Fueled Rise of Natural Family Planning

The evolution of laziness: Why humans resist the gym [video]

The Algorithmic Turn: The Emerging Evidence on AI Tutoring That's Hard to Ignore

Farmers' Almanac will cease publication

The Monetization Trap: When Profits Come at the Expense of Productivity

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I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist

My Excellent Conversation with Sam Altman

The Dominic Cummings dream lab chasing our 'Ozempic moment'

Modeling and Measuring the Genetic Determinants of Child Development

I tried lab-grown chocolate. Could it be the future of Halloween?

Korea's obesity hits 38%, child obesity cases double in the past decade: study

You struggle to get back to your normal diet after a holiday

Weight loss drugs are bringing down the country's obesity rate, a survey shows

She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges

Can a Painting Make a Skeptic Believe?

AI #140: Trying to Hold the Line

Obesity Rate Declining in U.S.

American Catalysis

OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History

The giant basket case countries

'Soul-Crushing': Students Slam Harvard's Grade Inflation Report

Peeling the AI Anxiety Onion

And He Knows Not What It Means

Blood Pressure: Boring

The UK Is Doing the Hard Work of Protecting Children Online

Fatima and the Sample Size Compensation (SSC) Fallacy

Top researchers [including Terry Tao ] consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts [video]

The Beatles as Comedians

Liberalism, Isis, and Toaster Nationalism

Signs NYC Is Definancializing

Yes, There's a Parallel Parking Championship, and I Was a Contender

The Impact of Maternal Mortality Improvements on the Baby Boom

My Conversation with the Excellent Jonny Steinberg

A Work of Genius or a Complete Mess? Even Its Author Can't Decide

Bad Claims About Food Stamps (Snap)

Learning Fashion Like an Engineer

What Remains of the Mysteries of the Brain?

Weight loss drugs are bringing down country's obesity rate, a survey shows

'Skinny Influencers' Are Selling Something More Mind-Bending Than Weight Loss

The Effect of Ketogenic Diets on Thyroid Hormones

Obesity on decline in US as GLP-1 use skyrockets: Gallup

X-59 Supersonic Test Jet Takes to the Air (Updated)

The American art of being busy

The Game Theory of House of Dynamite

Aphantasia

Jiro Ono turns 100 and is not ready to retire

The families that made Halloween costumes a big business

China overtakes the US as Germany's largest trading partner

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the economy

America's Car Debt Bomb Goes Off–Major Lender Folds Under $500M Load

Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, study shows

Friend or Foe: Delegating to an AI Whose Alignment Is Unknown

Enough with the sales hype: there is nothing special about sales

Professional Economists Who Were Heads of Government or State

Model City Monday 10/27/25

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There's a Lesson to Learn from Daniel Kahneman's Death

Why most diets fail and what to eat to succeed, according to weight loss surgeon

Why Ozempic and Wegovy Don't Cause Weight Loss for Everyone

Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American, died last year by assisted suicide

Going Down the Junk Food Rabbit Hole

An intro to the Tensor Economics blog

Strategy's Shrinking Bitcoin Purchases

Agustín Etchebarne on Milei and the Election

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