The Epidemic on the Road
Motor vehicle accidents are a common yet often overlooked cause of death – and the numbers are rising.
What is the role of genetics in determining one’s work ethic and success in a given discipline?
This clip is from episode #183, James Clear: Building & Changing Habits, originally released on November 8, 2021.
Is lack of curiosity an age-related condition?
What is it about children that makes them ask so many curious and thoughtful questions that adults can’t answer, or never even think to ask?
How to Make Better Decisions: Understanding Bias vs. Noise
Bias is important, but so is noise.
#183 – James Clear: Building & Changing Habits
“If you’re going to be building habits anyway, you might as well understand what they are and how they work and how to shape them so that you can be the architect of your habits and not the victim of them.” —James Clear
#154 – Steve Levitt, Ph.D.: A rogue economist’s view on climate change, mental health, the ethics of experiments, and more
“What economists do now is they’re asked not just to estimate parameters really well, but to embed those parameters into models, which then have enough degrees of freedom that you can start to imagine: if I turn this dial to that dial, what would happen?” —Steve Levitt
A scientific journal’s injustice; the true payoff of deliberate practice
A few things worth checking out: 03-07-2021
The psychology of fact checking; A mother’s essay on her own sobriety
A few things worth checking out: 01-24-2021
Britain’s COVID-19 vaccine gamble; The upside of quitting
A few things worth checking out: 01-10-2021
Psychedelic Santa; The dog that didn’t bark
A few things worth checking out: 12-27-2020