New Substack to watch, on diverse and outlier science: Reinvent Science

And here’s an example of what they’re talking about: Lay research on turtles, and the evolution of scholarly journals (see also the comments!)

We get a shout-out in The Antimeme Haunting Western Philosophy. A question we’ve pondered for some time:

Today I apply this insight to Western philosophy, in service of a question which I’ve been trying to answer for years on this blog: why does no one talk about cybernetics anymore?

Also: How do we live with each other?

How does the phthalates get into the beef? Some findings here: We tested Radius beef for plastic chemicals

“Last week, I had an unusually vivid dream about writing a book review for ACX. When I woke up, I remembered the review almost word-for-word. In some sense this is a best case scenario – write posts in my sleep, and spend my waking hours relaxing on the beach – but unfortunately the book I was reviewing doesn’t exist and most of what I say about it doesn’t make sense. Still, I’m posting the review here as a subscriber-only feature.” Dream Book Review: The Deal With Trauma (paywalled)

What Does It Mean To Be Thirsty? (h/t MY)

Satiety Graphed & The Horsemen of Obesity

High salt recruits aversive taste pathways

As late as 1813, people were saying that eating potatoes causes leprosy (h/t Adam Mastroianni)

A Time-Series Analysis of my Girlfriends Mood Swings, Behavioral Conditioning Methods to Stop my Boyfriend from Playing The Witcher 3, and The Bark Defense: A 99.999% Successful Method for Keeping Emily Safe from Strangers and Garbage Trucks — all these and more curiosities from the Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology, the “premium source for made up science”.