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• [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] On the Jesuit tradition — 2 Jan 2022
• [marginalium] On the view that there is no fate worse than death — 2 Jan 2022
• [marginalium] Misconceptions About the Innateness of Emotions and Ideas — 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.
• [marginalium] Land Acknowledgement as moral exhibitionism — 4 Dec 2021
• [article] The beauty of stress — 30 Nov 2021
  Stress is one of the most valuable pieces of biological technology we own. Don’t confuse ancient lion chases with email notifications. Our responses to modern stressors are just as well calibrated then as now. The difference is that some stressors we choose.
• [article] The amygdala is a distraction — 13 Nov 2021
  The amygdala doesn’t determine your fear response. You do. Don’t focus on calming the amygdala, focus on calming your response.
• [marginalium] We typically think of our idyllic past as one of egalitarian hunter gatherers — 27 Oct 2021
• [article] Meaning and its patterns in the brain — 26 Oct 2021
  The brain primarily links chunks of meaning into patterns of neural pathways. Pathways and patterns of meaning help us intuitively solve the problems of everyday life. But they also trap us in those patterns, and stop us from seeing beyond them.