Or how to procrastinate.
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👤 People
Brilliant lives.
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Oliver Sacks
Philo Farnsworth
John Forbes Nash Jr. - Wikipedia
Chris Burden
Mariana Mazzucato
Reza Aslan
Sol LeWitt
Frank Abagnale
Charles Bronson (prisoner)
Fernando Pessoa
🧠 Psychology
How the mind works.
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Psychological pricing
Hedonic treadmill
Psychological resilience
Stanford prison experiment
Fear of missing out
Cognitive miser
Broken windows theory
Peter principle
Delayed gratification
Hindsight bias
🦠 Diseases
Weird diseases.
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Hypersexuality
Urbach-Wiethe disease
Senescence
Ageing
Alzheimer's disease
Major depressive disorder
Somatoparaphrenia
Persistent genital arousal disorder
📋 Lists
Down into the rabbit hole.
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List of fallacies
List of unusual deaths
List of cognitive biases
List of unsolved problems in philosophy
List of paradoxes
Lists of diseases
List of Ig Nobel Prize winners
List of video games considered the best
📈 Economy
It's the economy stupid.
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Tragedy of the commons
Pareto principle
Economic model
High-frequency trading
Baumol's cost disease
Schools of economic thought
Bounded rationality
🤯 Effects
Cognitive biases and counter-intuitive effects.
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Cobra effect
Hawthorne effect
Denomination effect
Ringelmann effect
Overjustification effect
Serial-position effect
Streisand effect
🔬 Science
How things work.
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Simulation hypothesis
Metcalfe's law
Replication crisis
Lindy effect
Stefania Follini
Goodhart's law
Metascience
Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition
🤓 WTF
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions
Extreme ironing
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Aokigahara
Omorashi
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Bechdel test
1% rule (Internet culture)