Health and Psychology
Human body and mind: medicine, mental health, neuroscience, ADHD, and everyday psychology.
#4189: Why Lift 47 Breaks Your Back
Why a half-empty cardboard box can take you out when heavy lifting didn't. The hidden mechanics of back injury.
#4182: The Corner Store Loophole: Alcohol, Law & Addiction
Why corner stores can sell to visibly addicted customers—and what that does to the body.
#4172: How to Handle Chronic Badmouthing Without Making It Worse
What to actually do when someone you care about relentlessly trashes a decent family member.
#4164: The Childcare Puzzle: Who Stays and Why
Why some childcare workers thrive while others burn out—and what the science says about the skills that protect them.
#4145: Does Getting Things Done Actually Work?
Stress-testing David Allen’s GTD claims against real cognitive science. Does writing things down really free your brain?
#4144: Nuns on AliExpress: Ancient Rules for Modern Tech
What a nun picking up a package in Jerusalem teaches us about attention, technology, and intentional living.
#4138: The Two-Week Perpetual Cholent Playbook
A Shabbat dinner where the stew simmered for 14 days before guests were even invited. Here's how to pull it off.
#4134: The Neuroscience of Harm: When Empathy Has No Cure
fMRI shows real brain differences in personality disorders. Treatment barely works. What do you owe someone you can't help?
#4133: Can a Narcissistic CEO Be Diagnosed?
When Wall Street rewards what the DSM calls pathological, what are we actually diagnosing?
#4132: When Your Landlord Becomes the Leak
A roof leak, a hostile eviction, and the question of whether housing abuse creates real trauma.
#4131: Perpetual Stew: Safe or Scary?
A simmering pot is self-sterilizing. Here's why the USDA says it's safe indefinitely above 140°F.
#4128: What Is It Like to Be a Sloth?
A speculative deep dive into sloth consciousness — what the world actually looks, smells, and feels like through those eyes.
#4126: The Hotel Three Miles Away
Why a hotel in your own neighborhood can beat a trip abroad for real recovery.
#4124: Building a Safe AC-to-DC Enclosure for MQTT Traffic Lights
Learn to safely build a constant-voltage enclosure for a Raspberry Pi-powered traffic light with MQTT control.
#4123: LoRa Through Concrete: Parking Sensor Deep Dive
Can LoRa punch through 4 floors of concrete? We break down the real-world range, hardware, and regulatory details.
#4122: Why No AR App for Infant CPR?
A parent at 2AM needs visuals, not a PDF from 2014. Why doesn't the app exist?
#4119: Guilt as a Feature: How Judaism Processes Failure
Is guilt a feature or a bug in religious systems? One tradition has a built-in protocol for processing failure.
#4118: When Thoughts Feel Like Facts: Ego-Syntonic Thinking Explained
Why some people can't see their own catastrophic thoughts as distortions — and what that means for therapy.
#4117: Understanding Egosyntonic: Why Explanations Fail with Personality Disorders
What if the person you're trying to reach literally can't see their own behavior? One word explains why.
#4115: Overpressure Not Airtight: How Mamads Actually Work
A tech guy and an architect debate mamad vulnerabilities. Both are wrong in a fascinating way.