Seeds of Science

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

Mostly about biology, medicine and machine learning, sometimes about other stuff.

How do minds work, and how do you teach them things? Actually, what are minds?

Science for personal, not professional use. Published every Thursday.

A newsletter about the hunt for understanding and insight in the face of complexity.

Trusted by 70K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Deciphering why people and society work the way they do

Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.

Machine Learning Psychometrics / Snake Cult

Michael M. Halassa, MD, PhD is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry whose work has redefined the role of the thalamus in cognition. His clinical focus is on schizophrenia and related disorders.

Rationalist-adjacent musings on things we do in psychiatry

Culture, technology, and other macromutations

Long, niche posts, mostly about biology

"A Failure to Disagree" is the goal, but not the method. Thoughts on the philosophy of science, the science of psychology, the psychology of decisions, and the decisions that experts make under real world uncertainty.

kasra's blog

happy the dumb beast, wretched the mortal

Stories and thoughts from the cutting edge of genetic biohacking

Tracking progress in turning fate into choice through brain preservation. Official newsletter of the Brain Preservation Foundation.

Ongoing season: essays towards my next book, Rajah Versus Conquistador: Operating Among Psychopaths and Psychic Megafauna

I like to write in a variety of fields to spread my mistakes more thinly.

literally how can we understand what the internet is doing to us

A newsletter about social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.

I’m here to help you separate the most promising health science discoveries from the hype—cycle merry-go-round.

A theoretical physicist’s contemplations on Beauty in a world of computation.

Novelist Julian Gough (author of Minecraft's End Poem) redescribes the universe.