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  1. I've got a bunch of friends that are interested in starting their own enterprises but are having a hard time finding mentors. Right now the main sources of mentorship seem to be ondeck and y combinator, but these are…

  2. History is littered with examples of science being used to cause enormous harm - eugenics, phrenology, lobotomies, MKUltra, The four pests campaign, lysenkoism, introduction of cane toads into Australia, etc, etc, etc.…

  3. There's more thinkpieces than you can count out there about why humans are incapable of interpreting risk, of the cognitive biases that inform our thinking, of the ways in which we underprepare for everything from…

  4. In 1887, Michaelson & Morley did their famous interferometer experiment, which demonstrated there was no such thing as the luminiferous aether. Which, fine. The idea that there's a stationary substance through which…

  5. Welcome to Steppelandia (razib.substack.com)