Current exercise guidelines recommend that people get at least 150 minutes of exercise per week. Running is widely considered the best form of exercise…

February 2023

Three hundred million NIMBYs, stomping on each other’s faces, forever
How Monsanto– and now Bayer– have mislead us about the risks of herbicides
Sometimes a laugh is the best smile

January 2023

They May Even Be Right
How A Novel About Intelligent Octopi May Predict The Future Of Human-AI Teaming
This is a re-post of an article I wrote many years ago. Most of what I wrote here still holds up today, but see my note on the part about cold exposure…

December 2022

Focused, Simple, Aggressive, Actionable and Frequent
A new study suggests that steroid use by traders may cause financial bubbles
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November 2022

Beware of claims that sound too good to be true
A thoroughly-debunked theory has gained near-universal acceptance among educators
A deep dive into the research on program compliance