Links for February 2026

Nicky Case: Vitamin D & Omega-3 may have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants. Along with the actual points being made about depression, this essay is a great introduction to effect sizes.

A lot of population numbers are fake

Cosimo Research: 💤 Does Mouth Taping Reduce Snoring? & 🫥 Does Mouth Taping Change Facial Structure? Highlights from the methods section: “there were 135 vertical nights and 116 mustache nights”

Cosimo Research: Eau de Vagina AKA “the most rigorous study on vabbing ever undertaken and hence the best available scientific evidence”

Theoretical Structural Archaeology: Twelve reasons why Stonehenge was a building

Fiction: Julia

Sometimes we talk of ideas being “Big if true”. Well, they don’t get much bigger than true than this: ABC’s of Blessed Water (cf. We out here making mana potions)

A Journalist is a Lawyer

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