If you could design the ideal way to lose weight, it would probably look a lot like pumping fat and calories directly out of your body. And for…

Researchers find evidence that insider trading occurs in roughly 25% of mergers and acquisitions. That seems really low. Insider trading is one of the only profitable activities you…

Researchers have discovered and tested a new technique to engender a heritable shutdown of male mosquitoes ability to sire female offspring. This could be a much more efficient…

Want to track your goals? And make sure you don’t fail at the “forget to track your goals” stage? If so, check out my new guest post over…

Excellent roundup of ways to increase your happiness. Written by a friend of mine in San Francisco. Some of the top ones are probably things you’ve heard of:…

Have you heard of the Rat Park experiments? Studies on rats addicted to morphine show that they’ll keep triggering morphine levers until they die…unless they’re not in cruel,…

Africa has had surprisingly good economic growth, improved health, and improved governance in the 21st century. It’s a bit under-reported though so I mention this in case you…

My friend Julia is concerned with animal welfare. She seems to have been the first in the world to come up with this obvious-in-hindsight metric for evaluating animal…

Immediate tumblr binge recommended.

tl;dr: You probably need to practice rationality ahead of time in order to have it in the kinds of situations where you need it the most.

Google is set to support full native PGP encryption of emails so they can make it through all internet hubs without being snooped through. They’re in the final…