Health and Psychology
Human body and mind: medicine, mental health, neuroscience, ADHD, and everyday psychology.
#5930: The World's Greatest Drunk Foods
From Dublin's spice bag to Seoul's chimaek, a tour of the dishes nations eat at 2 a.m. — and the science of why alcohol makes us hungry.
#5929: Who Believes God Is Personally Involved? The Data on Divine Providence
Three different ideas hide inside "everything happens for a reason" — and the polling on who actually believes God is involved in their life is str...
#5928: Believing Without Belonging: The Religion of One
A growing crowd believes in God but belongs to no tradition. The research has a name for them — and the numbers are messier than you'd think.
#5921: Israel's Urgent Care Safety Net: What Broke
A Jerusalem family's two terrifying nights expose the layer beneath the ER — and the doctor shortage behind it.
#5920: The Psychiatrist in Those 1950s Patient Films
A drug salesman's papers, a bathtub, and the 1950s interviews with Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann that still pull millions of views.
#5918: Splitting One Camera's Audio for a Baby Monitor
One IP camera, two jobs: an open audio line for the nursery and Frigate's cry detection. Here's how go2rtc and Icecast fit together.
#5916: Grey Rocking Meets OPSEC: A Family Firewall
Grey rocking has no clinical trials—just a 2012 blog post. What happens when you rebuild it on need-to-know and OPSEC?
#5903: Video Tokens, Omni, and the Local VRAM Math
Video costs ~100 tokens per second. That single number explains why ChatGPT hides video upload and why local inference hits a KV cache wall.
#5895: Can Cities Be Quiet? Designing Density for Families
Families leave cities for space, quiet, and schools. What if cities could deliver all of that without losing walkability?
#5879: Why Experts Don't Follow Their Own Advice
Doctors eat worse, dentists drink more soda, and physicians skip the screenings they prescribe. The data behind the "do as I say" gap.
#5876: Sloth Leaf Medicine: What's Real and What Isn't
A serious look at sloth leaf medicine — the rotation, the Cecropia pharmacology, and the fur microbiome nobody was told about.
#5867: Toddler Meltdowns After Daycare, Explained
Why your toddler is cheerful at daycare and falls apart the second you walk in — and what the cortisol data actually says.
#5863: What Shabbat Does to Your Brain That Sleep Can't
Shabbat's real power isn't sleep — it's psychological detachment. And the data says a vacation day doesn't do the same thing.
#5856: ADHD Is Not One Thing: What the Data Says
Same diagnosis, same medication, completely different struggles. What the research says about why adult ADHD varies so much.
#5854: Why Quiet Weekends Make the Jackhammer Worse
Daniel's Jerusalem construction site goes silent on Saturdays — and that's exactly why Sunday's jackhammer hits so hard. The neuroscience of habitu...
#5852: What "Free of Ordnance" Actually Means
A medal suggests the job is done. In Gaza, the clearance hasn't even been permitted to start.
#5835: What Do You Call the Urge to Know Obscure Things?
There's no single name for the pull toward transporter bridges, strange borders, and overlooked infrastructure. The vocabulary exists — it's just s...
#5834: Dead Man's Switches: Alerts vs. Final Notices
Same mechanism, opposite goals: hardware that fires in two seconds when you fall, and services that wait sixty days to confirm you're gone.
#5833: When GLP-1s Silence Hunger Cues
GLP-1s switch off hunger at the brainstem. For people with anorexia, that's not a side effect — it's the thing they came for.
#5807: Why a Closing Door Upsets a 15-Month-Old
A happy toddler, a parent in the room, and a door swings shut. What's actually behind that reaction?