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
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)