Submissions by ubac

Is it ever possible to say definitively if one food tastes better than another?

Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?

Buy Things, Not Experiences

Phares Kariuki on Trust and Economic Development

Tentative Anger

Lars Doucet on Taxing the True Value of Land

Umami Exists and MSG is its Messenger

A Man In Seat 61 on global train travel and hidden plane subsidies

Wall Street's Greatest Gambler: On Jeff Yaas, Quant Trading, ByteDance and Poker

Reasons to read the original works of great thinkers

From Construction to Teaching: Seven Writers on Their Day Jobs

Tom Wright on the 'Fat Leonard' Scandal and Corruption in the US Navy

Magical cats of Japan

Lars Doucet on Tourette's, Narcolepsy and Being Exorcised

Out Past The Eye-Mark: On Anchorites

Conversation with an Aberdeen oil-rig worker

Elizabeth Minkel on fanfiction and culture

L.M. Sacasas on instant messenger over instant messenger

Byrne Hobart on the financialisation of everything

A Literal Banana on the problems with social science and survey research

QNTM on memes, anti-memes, and knowledge that doesn't want to be shared

Slime Mold Time Mold on how to be taken seriously as randoms on the internet

Oliver Burkeman on the flaw with productivity geek thinking

Ada Palmer on what's new about Big Tech censorship