Words

Public speaking and communication

• Neil deGrasse Tyson explains clarity towards broad audiencies (Video, 9min)
• One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech (Article)

Freedom of speech

• Jordan Peterson on why people must be allowed to speak freely (Video, 9min)

Language

• George Carlin on “Soft Language” (Video, 7min)
• William Lutz on his book “DoubleSpeak” (Video, 59min)
• Steve Patterson on “Politics and Language Warriors” (Video, 9min)
• Steve Patterson on “Words, Concepts, and Referents” (Video, 4min)

Scientific publishing

• We should not accept scientific results that have not been repeated (Article)
• Is most published research wrong? (Video, 12min)

Ethics

• Trying to cure depression, but inspiring torture (Article)
• The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle (Essay)
• James Randi on homeopathy, quackery and fraud (Video, 18min)

War

• Hiroshima: The medical aftermath of the day that changed the world (Essay)
• A stark nuclear warning (Opinion)

City life

• The mystery of urban psychosis (Article)
• Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life (Statistics)
• What it’s like to live in the world’s most polluted city (Essay)

Society

• The war on stupid people (Article)
• “I saw things children shouldn’t see” - surviving a troubled childhood (Article)
• Sexual Inactivity During Young Adulthood Is More Common Among U.S. Millennials and iGen: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Having No Sexual Partners After Age 18 (Paper)
• People with anxiety show fundamental differences in perception (Study)
• Michael Moore - Norway compared to USA (Resources management, prison system) (Video, 5min)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - Causality (Video, 4min)