You may have seen posts like this: Two explanations are commonly offered: Phones/computers got suddenly more addictive than before (Tiktok-era) COVID was bad for learning. Let's start with the second.…
I've been writing about fertility for a while. Of recent interest is the COVID or post-COVID fertility decline. Birth Gauge compiles the most up to date TFR (total fertility rate)…
Recently Scott Alexander wrote a long piece in his usual fashion Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. He takes the usual meta-skeptical rationalist approach of reviewing…
While I am no longer the philosophy blogger I once was, I do occasionally read philosophy that's got something to do with science. I saw some references to this book…
I try to read many different kinds of books each year. Outside of my own fields, I try to consume high quality popular science, but mainly read academic books within…