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Unfashionable Truths

Non-viral, multi-disciplinary knowledge from writers who know how to call a spade a spade — and these spades are handy to have in your back pocket.

“One Cannot Find the Words”
“Austerlitz” and the Différend in History
Practical Humanism in Unfashionable Truths15 min read
Brainstorming, You’re Holding It Wrong.
The Corporate America brainstorm is a watered down clone of what it once was. But it can be saved.
Jason Keath5 min read
How Your Chicken Dinner is Creating a Drug Resistant Superbug
Continuing to treat urinary tract infections as a short-term, routine ailment rather than a long-term food safety issue risks turning the…
Maryn McKenna11 min read
The importance of selling your vision
As the founder of Digg it was my job to drive the product vision through design, development, and finally into the hands of our customers.
Kevin Rose1 min read
Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using A Smartphone Camera
Physicists have exploited the laws of quantum mechanics to generate random numbers on a Nokia N9 smartphone, a breakthrough that could have…
The Physics arXiv Blog in The Physics arXiv Blog5 min read
Restoring Order
Six months on from the 2013 Russellution.
Alexander Brisbane4 min read
There’s No Such Thing as Rocket Science
6 Surprising Reasons Why the Backlash Against Science is Unnecessary
Practical Humanism4 min read
Why Work As We Know It May Be Immoral
Thoughts on the Redistribution of Labor
Saul of Hearts3 min read
How the Sharing Economy is Helping Us Redefine Money
A recent article by Moises Naim in The Atlantic makes a pretty striking claim: “Most People in the World Have No Idea How to Manage Their…
Saul of Hearts5 min read
Did This West Philly Herbal Healer Help a Man Walk Again?
Also, why I drank his colon cleanse
Randy LoBasso in Alt Ledes17 min read
Why we should still complain about hipsters…
…if only to empathize, not scold.
Nicholas Kerkhoff6 min read
23 and You
Does that commercial DNA test you just bought violate somebody else’s privacy?
Virginia Hughes in The Matter Archive40 min read
Making Stuff Up for a Living
How hundreds of indie authors are creating a reality that’s even better than the traditional writer’s fantasy career.
Jason Gurley in This Happened to Me19 min read
Science’s Dirty Little Secret
Not all lab rats are the furry kind
Frank Swain4 min read
Ovid’s Metamorphosis
Some notes on this Ovid’s anti-epic.
Gerald R. Lucas in World Literature7 min read
On the road with the Pied-Piper of Panajachel
A routine trip in Guatemala turned into a hair-raising journey with an ex-CIA mapmaker.
Benjamin Reeves in Travel Narrative7 min read
The big sleep
The extreme survival tricks of hibernators could help us overcome life-threatening injuries, Frank Swain discovers.
Frank Swain in Mosaic science15 min read
My Vote Should Count, but It Doesn’t, and I Can Prove It.
A Data Scientist’s Objection to the Electoral College
Adam Neary7 min read
Why would somebody want to remove a healthy limb?
Do No Harm: winner of the Association of British Science Writers award for investigative journalism.
Anil Ananthaswamy30 min read
Why “Big Data” cannot deliver everything that it promises
I have primarily written about economic theory and have not spoken much about data.
DiplodocusCoffeeSpot4 min read
The Daily Traffic Jam
How Public Transit can help solve congestion
The Candid Liberal3 min read
The New Caste System
Multilingualism and Oppression in a Globalised World
Ooha Kala5 min read
The new theory that could explain crime and violence in America
Forget what you’ve heard about guns and drugs. Scientists now believe that the roots of crime may lie deep within our biology.
Scott C Johnson in The Matter Archive30 min read
The man who destroyed America’s ego
How a rebel psychologist challenged one of the 20th century’s biggest—and most dangerous—ideas
Will Storr in The Matter Archive24 min read
Why facts matter
Do we have to live in a world of fictions, falsehoods and figments?
Bobbie Johnson4 min read

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