Autism hasn't increased(marginalrevolution.com)

26 points by paulpauper 9 months ago | 10 comments

How I listen to music(marginalrevolution.com)

47 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 23 comments

The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly(marginalrevolution.com)

59 points by gotmedium 1 month ago | 50 comments

Marginal Revolution blog post by Alex Tabarrok highlighting an Epoch AI report finding the cost of a given level of AI performance falls about 13-fold per year.

Why I do not use psychedelics(marginalrevolution.com)

24 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 39 comments

Cultivating minds: The psychological consequences of rice versus wheat farming(marginalrevolution.com)

122 points by impish9208 2 years ago | 61 comments

Why is choral music harder to appreciate?(marginalrevolution.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 31 comments

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us(bessstillman.substack.com)

427 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Substack personal essay by Bess Stillman about grieving her husband Jake a year after his death and how society expects grief to expire.

The year I didn't survive(bessstillman.substack.com)

856 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 220 comments

Personal essay by Bess Stillman on how her husband's death from cancer and the birth of her daughter in the same year transformed her brain, body, and sense of self.

We’re secretly winning the war on cancer(vox.com)

365 points by lr0 1 year ago | 161 comments

Vox Future Perfect article by Bryan Walsh arguing that falling cancer death rates reflect quiet advances like reduced smoking and immunotherapy.

After my dad died, we found the love letters(jenn.site)

854 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 389 comments

A personal blog essay on Jenneral HQ about discovering love letters among the author's late father's belongings and reflecting on her parents' arranged marriage.

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died(pgdp.net)

572 points by ron_k 1 year ago | 86 comments

A Distributed Proofreaders wiki memorial page announcing the death of Dr. Gregory B. Newby, longtime CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.