Haitians eat dirt cookies called bonbon tè. Women buy sacks of dirt, often on credit, and mix them with a bit of fat and salt.

Taking hearing aid regulation out of the hands of the FDA reduced their price by 90% overnight with no cost to quality. Makes you wonder! x.com/Max_Fisher/sta…

"People can use skin color and other easily observed anatomical features to allocate individuals to racial categories. These physical differences have a genetic basis, so it is easy to imagine that they are representative of human biology and that genetic differences between

I have heard some people speculate that dating apps have reduced assortative mating. Turns out it’s the opposite. Results show even stronger assortative mate choices in recent years when compared with past years.

Should the United States limit immigration to people with an IQ > 100? Why or why not?

Swann Marcus Haitian immigrants are the best solution for the feral hog problem. They'll have em spit roasting in no time.

There's a video of Lizzo lovingly cradling and speaking to her abdominal fat and fat activists have endorsed lovingly speaking to your body. But someone could also say "I'm grateful to you, fupa, for provisioning me in this calorie deficit. You're like wearable peanut butter".

I remember in the early 2000s thinking that the trend of men wearing their pant low enough that the crotch was between their knees and they waddled was too impractical and undignified to last forever. Glad I didn't bet on it.

"Sleep hygiene"

The Ban on Twitter in Brazil makes me feel kinda guilty about how loath I am to engaging at all with election season Twitter.

More than 1/3 of meat processing and slaughterhouse workers are immigrants because Americans don't really want these jobs. Shouldn't we expect people who want to work in meat processing to have different ideas about when and how to use animals for food?

Rereading Liberal Eugenics because I'm interviewing Nick Agar for Aporia and I'm remembering it's not that eugenicy. If you have any questions or ideas you'd like me to run by Nick, post them below.

More stats on Haitian migrants. Notice that, again, modern-era Black immigrants tend to do quite well.

Does someone have a figure for how much meat, milk and eggs would cost without illegal or immigrant labor?

New paper from David Reich lab: West Eurasian / European populations have had strong recent genetic selection for a number of traits. Among these, positive selection for intelligence and education. Negative selection for body fat percentage, darker skin color, and schizophrenia

"I think I understand your utilitarian argument for a moral obligation to immediately address climate change, but isn’t utilitarianism the theory that says it’s fine to kill babies? Why should I listen to that?" psyche.co/ideas/on-the-m…