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The World is a Laboratory

South Korea's Warning for Washington

Brain Food

How I Write

The Mirthful Assyriologist, the Real Noah's Ark, and the Oldest Writing in the World

The Tattered Republic

General Butt Naked, MAGA Exorcisms, and the Politics of Witchcraft

Billionaire Villains and the Evolution of Overconfidence

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Hidden Margins of Error OR the Fallible Uncertainty of Nate Silver

Elon Musk's Perfect Disinformation Machine

Plutocracy Rising: Billionaire Politicians and Gerrymandered Companies

De-Extinction and the Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth

Griefbots and the Perils of Digital Immortality

The Last Statements of Death Row

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Donald Trump and the "Banality of Crazy"

The Great Global Divergence of Values

The "Need for Chaos" Voter

Tim Walz as Antidote to Andrew Tate's Toxic Masculinity

An Anthropologist Goes to Boomtown

Kamala Harris and Democrats in Array

The Power of Supercitizens

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Billionaires and the Power of Verticality

The MAGA Abuse of the English Language

The Evolution of Sports

The CrowdStrike Debacle is a Warning

How Tyrants Fall

How the World Sped Up

In a sea of disinformation, why is Wikipedia so accurate?

Lessons from the British Wave

Another trip around the sun OR Raphael's deadly debauchery and the AI Zebras

Five Reasons Trump 2.0 Would Be Worse

Why "manifesting" is far more irrational than using a medieval service magician

Inheritance: How Evolution Shaped Our Brains and Forged the Modern World

A Tale of Two D-Day Cemeteries

The Liar's Dividend: Why Politicians Claiming "Fake News" Get a Boost

Brain Food

Joe Biden and the Inversion of Reality

The Thrilling Tale of Longitude and Our Neurons of Navigation

How Fox "News" Mimics Russian Propaganda Tactics

The Perils of Moneyballing Everything

Did a doomsday cult detonate a nuke?

The Bluetooth Viking and the Scattered Bones of King Cnut

The Evolution of Stupidity (and Octopus Intelligence)

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Why We Need Press Objectivity, Not Balance

The "Moronic Inferno" and "the Fidgets," OR Why My Phone is Now Black & White

Why We Need Fools: Jesters, Power, and Cults of Personality

The Science of Conspiracy Theories

The Death of Serious Politics

Big Gods and the Origin of Human Cooperation

Why do dictators hold "elections"—but rig them?

How to stop social dysfunction: wide vs. narrow problems

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Why does 40%+ of America still support Trump?

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