Are fat people dumb?
There's a stereotype that fat people are lazy, less intelligent, and of course, they are widely considered unattractive in the west in modern times. But is this stereotype true? Well,…
There's a stereotype that fat people are lazy, less intelligent, and of course, they are widely considered unattractive in the west in modern times. But is this stereotype true? Well,…
Drugs are bad mmk? Well, are they? The go-to argument involves looking at drug abusers. It's hard to say something positive about drug abuse in general. Everybody has a story…
Some time ago, someone sent me this: https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1583506701726064651 I know, generic ancient Rome/Greek right-wing back-to-nature type stuff, even hates on deodorants: https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1587965330856493056 "Alright Emil, but these are cheap shots. What…
I've been battling my way through round three of my COVID adventures this week, and it's not been fun. 3 days of lying in bed with full body fever, cold…
There is a nice theory in economics about why capitalism is better than socialism. It goes like this. Under socialism, central planners try to estimate what the public wants and…
Research funding for COVID is amazing. A lot of academics got and continue to get grants promising to do research on COVID. Unfortunately, COVID kinda died out recently and the…
OK, click baity title, but bear with me. In a prior post on Roman fertility decline, I had mentioned a speculative piece arguing that Roman fertility decline was in part…
Being the go-to science guy, I get questions like: so can something be done about my hair loss? The context of this is that I frequently talk about replication crisis,…
Most people people my age know about a documentary called Supersize me! from 2004. The story of it goes like this: As the film begins, Spurlock is in physically above…
And I am not talking about COVID vaccines! I am talking about this far more intriguing paper: Miller, N. Z., & Goldman, G. S. (2011). Infant mortality rates regressed against…