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Older writing

A selection of some of my older blog posts and articles, grouped loosely by theme:

On life and death
  • Is there an answer? Searching for the meaning of life in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • On Gardner and Immortality
  • Human, know thy place!
Ethics
  • Pushing the right beliefs for the wrong reasons
  • Does Atheism have a misogyny problem?
  • Want to kill fewer animals? Give up eggs, not meat
The alleged limits of science
  • Insane Clown Posse and the Miracles of Nature
  • Relabeling Our Ignorance
  • My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!
  • Heralding the end of discovery?
  • Should non-experts shut up? The Skeptic’s Catch-22
Strategies for becoming more rational
  • How to want to change your mind
  • Surprise! The most important skill in science and self-improvement is noticing the unexpected.
  • 16 Types of useful predictions
The intersection of art and logic
  • A crab canon for Douglas Hofstadter
  • “That’s funny…” Incongruity in humor, art and science
  • The perils of metaphorical thinking
  • The fallacy of difference, in science and art

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