Read or Die — HQ

June 2024 “Short Review” Update

My impressions, a few examples, and the latest changes in boost guidelines

His transformation into the Beast was not the result of an evil, jealous witch, but the fault of his own vanity and selfishness

The wildly deceiving world of screening-test math explained. And how to turn it in your favour.

The importance of raising awareness for people who struggle with Nonverbal Learning Disability

We can no longer ignore the main causes of ultranationalism in Romanian and European politics!

Fake news isn’t all bad. Not when it serves as an illustrative example of how to unmask it!

Writers keep missing the point and listening to terrible advice. Turns out all you need are three ingredients, and to explain, I’m going to…

Keeping your cognitive mojo may depend on rejecting supplements’ false promises, and much more.

Democracy is on fire, but some people are fighting back locally.

The medical and psychological complications of a face transplant

Is cacao a nutraceutical? The FDA says “kind of”, but the evidence tells us how best to consume it: not as dark chocolate!

The many lives of the vampire from Voltaire to Bram Stoker’s nationalist Ireland

How to navigate the gulf between the scaremongering and the science

No decline with age is more dramatic and damaging than the decline in lean body mass. The good news is that it has nothing to do with age.

“‘God always wins and if you underestimate me you do so at your own peril.’ Phillips added, ‘I have God on my side.’”

A scientist’s investigative report on flawed positive psychology and the broken promises of anti-aging medicine

Scotty sensed he wasn’t his parents’ biological son but was discouraged from seeking answers.

“Lawmakers are in essence diagnosing patients they can’t see, using medical knowledge they don’t have.”

There is a better alternative to Body Mass Index and the concept of obesity

The way you respond to compliments says a lot about your brain

An insider’s illustration of the depth of prejudice and how not to get sucked into it.

As well as why you might prefer to just avoid them

What Americans could learn from the 2007 Kenyan elections

What ‘the Dickens’ is going on with declining scores in math, history, and reading?

Ditching the hackneyed advice of the media for micro-dosing on midnight exercise