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Why behaving morally might make people like you less
I've been vegan for a while now. Although usually I don't bring it up too often, occasionally it has to be shared to explain why I say no to certain foods. Something that has happened quite often is that people start explaining why they eat meat,
Faithfully projecting high-dimension space
I was recently at a talk by Devika Narain (Associate professor at Donders), and one of the things she presented was their new dimensionality reduction method called RATS (Riemannian Alignment of Tangent Spaces). For some reason it really tickled my brain, so here I'll go through what the
Who does science funding select for?
In the previous article on grant lotteries, I ended on a note that the core problem with scientific funding is not just about how you allocate a scarce resource, but about how scarce that resource has become, and how much collective energy is now spent competing for it. There is
"Natural" products, and why people like them
Meier, Dillard, and Lappas (2026) published "The naturalness bias" in Current Opinion in Psychology, and it only runs to about two printed pages - probably the shortest paper I've ever read. Despite it's length, the paper touches upon an interesting topic: what's