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• [article] Female zealots — 19 Oct 2020
  A popular academic fact claims that females are the most zealous religious adherents, despite being marginalised in their own religious communities. We are told this is because they are uneducated and submissive. But a quick look at most of recorded history shows us this was not always the case. Once, female zealots formed the core of what is possibly our most universal religious tradition.
• [article] How we choose our psychic predators — 8 Oct 2020
  Henry Farrell describes Donald Trump as a psychic predator. It’s an interesting concept that demonstrated (to me at least) how we choose certain kinds of pain for ourselves.
• [marginalium] Rhythmic Brain Cell Firing Mimics Ketamine’s Effects — 6 Oct 2020
• [marginalium] Archive of textfiles - Twitter, but in the 1980s — 6 Oct 2020
• [article] The sophists: natural justice or social justice? — 4 Oct 2020
  Greek philosophers argued whether social morality was a creation of the weak to control the strong, but of course this is simply another form of strength.
• [article] The true meaning of family ties — 24 Sep 2020
  It’s no secret that we are lonelier than ever. We have many complaints of modern society, but our growing isolation is a common one. There are two reasons for this unhappy accident—the difficulty of finding people in ever more crowded cities, and the fact that we have lost sight of what a community is really made of. This article is about the latter.
• [article] The loneliness epidemic — 20 Sep 2020
  One in five people are lonely. This is not trivial. Loneliness is emerging as one of the greatest threats to physical and emotional health. And it shouldn’t be, because unlike many of our most intractable problems, this one seems so solvable.
• [article] The predictability of humans — 15 Sep 2020
  The human animal is an animal first–responding adaptively to the environment around it. Humans are only unpredictable because we’re obsessed with the human mind and uncomfortable accepting how influential our environment is.
• [article] Successful Prophets — 11 Sep 2020
  We think of cults as the product of dangerously charismatic leaders but on examination this narrative falls apart. Really, the most successful prophets are not a person, but the followers, who use the leader as an emblem.
• [article] Folie à deux: the madness of two — 10 Sep 2020
  Folie à deux is a striking phenomenon, but poorly understood. It seems to me that it might be just one misleading face of social isolation.
• [marginalium] SARS-CoV-2 as an opportunity to reflect — 10 Sep 2020
• [article] What use is the cloud — 9 Sep 2020
  Using the cloud and a couple of harddrives to sort our files out.
• [article] Creating a digital home for our digital selves — 6 Sep 2020
  Our digital lives are as much an entity as our physical lives. Maybe moreso—many of us spend more time online than off. Yet we take very little care of our digital selves. We’re going to fix that. Simply. Because it causes us more stress than it needs to.
• [article] Incidental Talent — 30 Aug 2020
  A project on motivation, goals, habits and the elusive talent.
• [article] The value of the details of trauma — 29 Aug 2020
  There’s a division in therapeutic circles—should we focus on the details or trauma or not?