Erik Hoel
Scientist and author. Better on Substack than Twitter. https://t.co/CKyLzw5bHK
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1. You might remember the finding in evolutionary psychology that women prefer more masculine faces for short-term mating partners, but prefer less masculine faces for long-term ma...
1. Normally sane figures are making fools of themselves this week over "alien wreckage." But the real UFO story is about how we got here: government nepotism and journalistic fuck...
From Ancient Rome to Enlightenment Europe, rich children were educated by tutors, while only non-affluent children attended schools like our own. What did this lost aristocratic me...
1. Over the weekend I took 1st place in Scott Alexander's anonymous book review contest. My entry was about the Sapient Paradox, which asks: since humanity is over 200,000 years ol...
You were born into a world where most things were made by human consciousness. You may die in a world where nothing is made by human consciousness. An artless void. https://t.co/CY...
Are there any figures today who obviously belong to the pantheon of historical geniuses? If the list seems slim, why? https://t.co/7dMSj32e7b