I’ve been meditating on-and-off for around 6 years now and while it’s been relatively useful in regulating my mood and stress levels it hadn’t yielded the world-rending revelations that some of my friends who are “more serious” about the practice said it would.  That changed a couple weeks ago when I had an experience that […]

This post serves as a long-term repository for interesting articles I’ve come across and hope to someday dive deeper into and turn into a full post.  I’ve broken them up by topic. Gender Quillette article that addresses the topic of “toxic masculinity” from an evolutionary biology perspective Here are a couple articles talking about a […]

This post is a summary of an Intelligence Squared US debate I listened to.  The motion debated: globalization has undermined America’s working class. The portion of the American working class that is directly exposed to international competition is ~20% (factory workers as opposed to service industry workers). Of this 20%, less than half of jobs […]