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• [marginalium] The critical decline of grasslands — 1 Aug 2022
• [marginalium] How to speak - Patrick Winston’s famous lecture — 1 Aug 2022
• [marginalium] Another update on Herman and Chomsky’s filters in the modern age — 31 Jul 2022
• [marginalium] A Platonic take on the leadership crisis — 31 Jul 2022
• [marginalium] A short summary of Friston’s Baysian Brain theory — 31 Jul 2022
• [article] Useful Pharmacology — 28 Jul 2022
  We absolutely love some drugs. Others terrify us. The difference is familiarity more than any other single thing and the result is confusion. A much more principled framework for thinking about drugs is thinking of them as tools.
• [article] Our success is not our own — 23 Jun 2022
  The success of the people we surround ourselves with directly influences our performance and sense of accomplishment. It’s worth paying attention to how we balance this, both with those more successful but also those less.
• [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] Conspiracy theories stack — 6 Mar 2022
• [marginalium] The logical mystic—on Witgenstein’s Tractictus — 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