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So you think you could be an electrician?(asteriskmag.com)

419 points by zdw 26 days ago | 362 comments

Asterisk Magazine essay by Jesse Smith examining the popular advice to pursue trades like electrician work, and the realities behind it.

Beware the Permanent Periphery(asteriskmag.com)

28 points by m-hodges 2 months ago | 35 comments

Boarding China's Last Bus(asteriskmag.com)

21 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 1 comments

In Praise of Observational Evidence(asteriskmag.com)

69 points by fi-le 3 months ago | 35 comments

Looking at the data behind prediction markets(asteriskmag.com)

94 points by kqr 5 months ago | 36 comments

The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement(asteriskmag.com)

70 points by jger15 6 months ago | 12 comments

Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen(asteriskmag.com)

629 points by nkurz 6 months ago | 408 comments

An Asterisk Magazine essay by Dynomight comparing acetaminophen and ibuprofen, covering overdose risks, narrow therapeutic windows, and what doctors want patients to know.

Language birth(asteriskmag.com)

24 points by mitchbob 7 months ago | 3 comments

Seeing Like a Sedan(asteriskmag.com)

15 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 6 comments

Rethinking High-School Science Fairs(asteriskmag.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 49 comments

Sins of the Children(asteriskmag.com)

159 points by maxall4 9 months ago | 72 comments

Ideas aren't getting harder to find(asteriskmag.com)

100 points by mitchbob 10 months ago | 46 comments

The Message in the Medium(asteriskmag.com)

4 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 0 comments

The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes(asteriskmag.com)

56 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 64 comments

Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?(asteriskmag.com)

30 points by Luc 11 months ago | 40 comments

Scapegoating the Algorithm(asteriskmag.com)

34 points by fmblwntr 1 year ago | 17 comments

Why are there so many rationalist cults?(asteriskmag.com)

459 points by glenstein 1 year ago | 695 comments

Asterisk Magazine essay by Ozy Brennan examining why the Rationalist community tends to spawn cult-like high-demand groups.

Yes in My Bamako Yard(asteriskmag.com)

52 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 8 comments

The Origin of the Research University(asteriskmag.com)

129 points by Petiver 1 year ago | 36 comments

The Universal Tech Tree(asteriskmag.com)

125 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 54 comments

Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice(asteriskmag.com)

80 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 69 comments

Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated(asteriskmag.com)

172 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 327 comments

We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains(asteriskmag.com)

86 points by l1n 1 year ago | 81 comments

The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing(asteriskmag.com)

61 points by k2enemy 1 year ago | 39 comments

A Defense of Weird Research(asteriskmag.com)

92 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 27 comments

Chimes at Midnight (2024)(asteriskmag.com)

42 points by chautumn 1 year ago | 14 comments

The Making of Community Notes (2024)(asteriskmag.com)

62 points by chambers 1 year ago | 14 comments

The Depths of Wikipedians(asteriskmag.com)

174 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 65 comments

The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic(asteriskmag.com)

41 points by Luc 1 year ago | 31 comments

The death and life of prediction markets at Google(asteriskmag.com)

221 points by mfro 1 year ago | 153 comments

How long til we're all on Ozempic?(asteriskmag.com)

377 points by thehoff 2 years ago | 1281 comments

An Asterisk Magazine forecast essay by Greg Justice on how long until the 100+ million Americans who could benefit from GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can access them.

The missing middle: firms in developing countries(asteriskmag.com)

84 points by falcor84 2 years ago | 156 comments

Why We Shut Down(asteriskmag.com)

17 points by yorwba 2 years ago | 4 comments

Is Cultivated Meat for Real?(asteriskmag.com)

17 points by noahbergamasco 2 years ago | 23 comments

When RAND made magic in Santa Monica(asteriskmag.com)

127 points by mitchbob 2 years ago | 50 comments

How to make a great government website(asteriskmag.com)

83 points by wormold 2 years ago | 56 comments

It's 2024 and drought is optional(asteriskmag.com)

40 points by vwoolf 2 years ago | 34 comments

The Ruin of Mumbai(asteriskmag.com)

48 points by torts 2 years ago | 18 comments

All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train(asteriskmag.com)

123 points by zaik 2 years ago | 74 comments

Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings(asteriskmag.com)

51 points by savanaly 2 years ago | 19 comments

Prediction markets have an elections problem(asteriskmag.com)

116 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 160 comments

Why you've never been in a plane crash(asteriskmag.com)

246 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 212 comments

Michael Lewis's Blind Side(asteriskmag.com)

80 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 68 comments

Fracking eyeballs at the turn of the 20th century(asteriskmag.com)

84 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 14 comments

Mysticism and Empiricism(asteriskmag.com)

76 points by Anon84 2 years ago | 35 comments

America doesn't know tofu(asteriskmag.com)

83 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 60 comments

Are colonoscopies worth it?(asteriskmag.com)

231 points by TheIronYuppie 3 years ago | 205 comments

Half a million kinksters can't be wrong(asteriskmag.com)

131 points by barry-cotter 3 years ago | 117 comments

Through a Glass Darkly(asteriskmag.com)

46 points by ctoth 3 years ago | 18 comments