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52 things I learned in 2024

1 | Mice don't particularly like cheese. They're known for eating it because they could easily find it aging uncovered in cellars, but exterminators say…

Dec 16, 2024 •

Why the Monty Hall problem is confounding

When I was in eighth grade, I became obsessed with a card game called Killer Bunnies, spending an embarrassing amount of time on a fan forum about its…

Oct 20, 2024 •

The breaststroke is stupid

The backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke are swimming's equivalents of racewalking. Olympic events should be about going fast.

Jul 27, 2024 •

Climate change is being solved

We have a ways to go, but the battles have changed

Mar 10, 2024 •

52 things I learned in 2023

How geometry explains caring for babies, the mysterious health benefits of ice cream, and 50 other things I learned this year.

Dec 10, 2023 •

Old advice for a new era of coding

Even the most bullish takes on generative AI wouldn't say it's a greater revolution than everything that happened in tech from 1975 to 2022. So if this…

Dec 3, 2023 •

Beware the taxicab fallacy

A study on the labor supply of New York City cabdrivers changed my life.

Aug 20, 2023 •

Three-dimensional stories

There are only so many types of stories you can tell—any combination of emotional ups and downs you can think of has been told many times before. If you…

Jul 23, 2023 •

The case for pumping and bottles

From a practical standpoint, daily life has gone a lot like the parenting books said. The biggest exception: we’ve primarily fed our daughter pumped…

Jul 16, 2023 •

Requiem for the knuckleball

There are a lot of uniquely fun things about baseball, but my favorite is the knuckleball.

Jul 2, 2023 •

ChatGPT will change human communication

In Clive Thompson's Coders, Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood claims programming causes people to be nitpickier: “If you go to work and everyone…

Jun 22, 2023 •

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