Essays

A new rationalization for wine snobs may reflect an unhealthy spillover of childhood into adulthood caused by our lack of a coming of age rite.

Posted on November 2, 2007 | Filed Under: Identity, Sociology Read on

What if an an experiment on recognizing musical greatness said more about us as the musician than us as the audience?

Posted on April 16, 2007 | Filed Under: Identity, Psychology Read on

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Why sarging works when it really shouldn’t

Evolutionary advantage of depression

Strict Islamic law is an equal amount but different balance of freedom

Personalities positive and negative are actually creative and perfectionist

Why music comes and goes in distinctive decades/genres

Additional factors that contribute to rape going unreported

Origin and function of classiness

Why every generation isn’t better at parenting than the previous

Species improvement using makeshift solutions: sex and death

Fear of death is only possible with a 3rd person omniscient view

Factors that contribute to or discourage device convergence

Why so many technologically intelligent young men are becoming libertarian

Why racial profiling is wrong and demographic car insurance rates aren’t

New statistical field to determine existence/non-existence of time, motion, and physics

Non-existence of identity invalidates self-sampling assumption

We can judge others’ personality by their appearance because we give them that personality

Interest in SETI is only interest in the convergence/divergence of progression

Compulsive lying should be classified as a form of Tourette’s

It isn’t “information overload” any more than fat is “food overload”

Women are the original property

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