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• [article] The value of relationship control — 13 May 2022
  ‘Control’ isn’t always a bad thing in a relationship. In fact it’s necessary. We always have a level of control over our partners, we must just use it with their approval, and to meet their needs as well as ours.
• [article] The five stages of grief are a lie — 12 Apr 2022
  The five stages of grief were never supposed to be an orderly process, despite the common wisdom of many clinicians. Rather, anyone can experience any stage at any time, and the best support recognises this.
• [article] Explaining group dynamics — 29 Mar 2022
  Group dynamics are often thought to be a complicated thing to explore. But a 50-year-old model explains much of it with only three things: a need for Belonging, for Affection, and for Control.
• [marginalium] The logical mystic—on Witgenstein’s Tractictus — 6 Mar 2022
• [marginalium] Conspiracy theories stack — 6 Mar 2022
• [article] The origin of insight — 20 Feb 2022
  Lightbulb moments are one crucial key to creativity, and though they appear elusive, there are many ways to encourage the happy accidents that bring them into being: we must bring together the unfamiliar and the familiar.
• [marginalium] 1977 study shows that science has always leaned into its rituals — 3 Feb 2022
• [marginalium] An article from the 60’s on LSD and the ‘third eye’, or more accurately, the role of serotonin in psychedelic states — 22 Jan 2022
• [marginalium] On Ernst Junger and his war-time diaries and a descent into magic — 4 Jan 2022
• [marginalium] An excellent article on the Antikythera machine — 4 Jan 2022
• [marginalium] Misconceptions About the Innateness of Emotions and Ideas — 2 Jan 2022
• [marginalium] On the view that there is no fate worse than death — 2 Jan 2022
• [marginalium] On the Jesuit tradition — 2 Jan 2022
• [article] It's not 'just' a placebo — 28 Dec 2021
  The phrase “it’s ‘just’ a placebo effect” is used to wave away inconvenient findings that some alternative therapies work, because we don’t know how they work. But many of us frankly don’t know how any medicine works and this blind one-directional faith is often misguided.
• [article] The trap of scientific evidence — 18 Dec 2021
  The scientific claim of ‘no evidence’ both indicates that we have evidence something isn’t true, and that no one has really looked. This fact bears forth the alluring capacity for science to sweep inconvenient truths aside rather than tackle them.