Another week, another collection of stuff; this time, including something other than just Substack reposts…
Me on Substack:
— Intelligence and Inclination: Some thoughts in response to an article about Kathryn Paige Harden’s book on genetics and intelligence, and how I wrote about similar issues in Eureka.
— You Misspelled “Made”: Journalism isn’t just reporting on rage that would exist anyway, it’s actively creating it, and not in a cynical clickbait way.
— Vaccines and Seat Belts: In which a meme makes me more sanguine about the state of the vaccine rollout.
— Memorial Checkout: I mostly avoided the Internet on Saturday, because I don’t need 9/11 retrospectives in my life.
Me Elsewhere:
— Book Review: Where Did The Universe Come From? By Chris Ferrie And Geraint F. Lewis: Dusting off the Forbes blog to review somebody else’s book. (Now that I sent off the page proofs for my own book-in-production, I expect I’ll start doing more blogging over there, but I could be wrong about that…)
Links Dump:
— The dying art of the hatchet job: The scathing review is a vanishing form, at least in professional publications, and this is an interesting look at why. I’m not sure we really need longform versions of this when we have modern social media, but it was a good read.
— The Left’s science denial: The most interesting part of this is the stuff about how expectations can shape interpretation without us even noticing.
— Why have there been so few COVID deaths in Japan?: A really important question.
— Age of Invention: Plague of the Sea: A fascinating look at the history of scurvy.
Pseudo-Random Photo of the Week:
I went to the Indian Kill Preserve on Labor Day for a photo hike, and this was way up at the end of the trail.
Pseudo-Random Song of the Week:
It’s not on either album, but this may be the sneaky best track of their recent-ish releases.
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