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Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)

127 points by rafaelc 16 days ago | 56 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing against the claim that new ideas are getting harder to find, saying discovery is still possible.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos(experimental-history.com)

149 points by cwal37 2 months ago | 88 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)(experimental-history.com)

230 points by rafaelc 2 months ago | 325 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers(experimental-history.com)

818 points by Ariarule 2 months ago | 328 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History Substack essay "I like 'em thick," subtitled an apology to his English teachers, apparently about writing style.

Incentives are for losers(experimental-history.com)

127 points by bkudria 2 months ago | 87 comments

Reading the news is the new smoking(experimental-history.com)

34 points by wesleyd 4 months ago | 33 comments

Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them(experimental-history.com)

14 points by mday27 5 months ago | 2 comments

Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals(experimental-history.com)

290 points by sito42 7 months ago | 128 comments

I swear the UFO is coming any minute(experimental-history.com)

154 points by Ariarule 8 months ago | 54 comments

Text Is King(experimental-history.com)

151 points by zdw 9 months ago | 69 comments

So you wanna de-bog yourself (2024)(experimental-history.com)

30 points by calvinfo 9 months ago | 10 comments

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)(experimental-history.com)

64 points by bertwagner 10 months ago | 11 comments

Bag of words, have mercy on us(experimental-history.com)

293 points by ntnbr 10 months ago | 321 comments

The decline of deviance(experimental-history.com)

225 points by zdw 1 year ago | 185 comments

Face it: you're a crazy person(experimental-history.com)

633 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 338 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay "Face it: you're a crazy person," subtitled "why your brain needs a boxcutter."

“The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind(experimental-history.com)

87 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 67 comments

Science is a strong-link problem(experimental-history.com)

38 points by calvinfo 1 year ago | 7 comments

The end is nigh and here's why(experimental-history.com)

16 points by danorama 1 year ago | 30 comments

Underrated Ways to Change the World(experimental-history.com)

16 points by usrme 1 year ago | 4 comments

Research in psychology: are we learning anything?(experimental-history.com)

161 points by ctoth 2 years ago | 151 comments

There's a place for everyone(experimental-history.com)

66 points by yboulkaid 2 years ago | 45 comments

Who's got the guts to go to the moon?(experimental-history.com)

3 points by ctoth 2 years ago | 0 comments

Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)(experimental-history.com)

91 points by passwordoops 2 years ago | 90 comments

How to get 7th graders to smoke(experimental-history.com)

177 points by HR01 2 years ago | 181 comments

So you wanna de-bog yourself(experimental-history.com)

311 points by world2vec 2 years ago | 75 comments

The rise and fall of peer review(experimental-history.com)

8 points by cs702 2 years ago | 1 comments

I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is(experimental-history.com)

66 points by Ariarule 3 years ago | 17 comments

An invitation to a secret society(experimental-history.com)

192 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 83 comments

You can't reach the brain through the ears(experimental-history.com)

98 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 51 comments

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs(experimental-history.com)

48 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 12 comments

Science is a strong-link problem(experimental-history.com)

142 points by lantry 3 years ago | 48 comments