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2026 18

  1. Links for October 2026
  2. Three Indie Science Project Ideas
  3. Links for September 2026
  4. Cybernetics and Dynamics
  5. Links for August 2026
  6. For the Love of the Game
  7. Meet the Meetups Czar
  8. A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came up with by Looking at the List of Specification Gaming Behaviours
  9. Links for July 2026
  10. Homework for SMTM-6941: Lithium Problem Sets
  11. You Can Discover the Drives
  12. Links for June 2026
  13. Links for May 2026
  14. Links for April 2026
  15. Links for March 2026
  16. Effortscaffolding: a Guide
  17. Links for February 2026
  18. Links for January 2026

2025 30

  1. Links for December 2025
  2. Links for November 2025
  3. The Cybernetics of Alternative Turkey
  4. How to DIY New Scientific Protocols
  5. Links for October 2025
  6. Corn Holes
  7. Lithium Yay
  8. Links for September 2025
  9. Links for August 2025
  10. Links for July 2025
  11. Links for June 2025
  12. Philosophical Transactions: Potato Serendipity (and FODMAP testing)
  13. Links for February–May 2025
  14. Philosophical Transactions: DECADENT Reader Reports Losing 50 Pounds Eating Buttery, Cheesy Potatoes
  15. The Mind in the Wheel – Part XII: Help Wanted
  16. The Mind in the Wheel – Part XI: Other Methods
  17. The Mind in the Wheel – Part X: Dynamic Methods
  18. The Mind in the Wheel – Part IX: Animal Welfare
  19. The Mind in the Wheel – Part VIII: Artificial Intelligence
  20. The Mind in the Wheel – Interlude: I Love You for Psychological Reasons
  21. The Mind in the Wheel – Part VII: No Really, Seriously, What Is Going On?
  22. The Mind in the Wheel – Part VI: Conflict and Oscillation
  23. The Mind in the Wheel – Part V: Depression and other Diagnoses
  24. The Mind in the Wheel – Part IV: Learning
  25. The Mind in the Wheel – Part III: Personality and Individual Differences
  26. The Mind in the Wheel – Part II: Motivation
  27. The Mind in the Wheel – Part I: Thermostat
  28. The Mind in the Wheel – Prologue: Everybody Wants a Rock
  29. Potato Riffs Retrospective
  30. Links for January 2025

2024 27

  1. Most Superlative Links of 2024
  2. Links for December 2024
  3. Links for November 2024
  4. Krinn Post 2: A Year and Change
  5. Links for October 2024
  6. The Dukakis Theory of Donnie Darko
  7. Third Potato Riffs Report
  8. Links for September 2024
  9. Links for August 2024
  10. Philosophical Transactions: AS on Potatoes-By-Default (Plus Sauce)
  11. Links for July 2024
  12. Lithium Hypothesis of Obesity: Recap
  13. Lithium in American Eggs
  14. Links for June 2024
  15. Links for May 2024
  16. The Double-Headed Model of Obesity
  17. Links for April 2024
  18. Philosophical Transactions: JV on Explorations of Isotonic Brine Space
  19. Links for March 2024
  20. Philosophical Transactions: Leo on Swamp Taters
  21. Second Potato Riffs Report
  22. Gradient Descending Through Brinespace
  23. Links for February 2024
  24. Philosophical Transactions: Adam Mastroianni says “please squirt lemon juice on my brain”
  25. Lady Tasting Brine
  26. Links for January 2024
  27. First Potato Riffs Report

2023 44

  1. Links for December 2023
  2. Regulatory Capture the FDA
  3. Links for November 2023
  4. Philosophical Transactions: Neoncube on The Meat and Veggies Diet
  5. Potato Diet Riff Trial: Sign up Now, lol
  6. Links for October 2023
  7. N=1: Having Fun and Feeling Good
  8. How Much Lithium is in Your Twinkie?
  9. Anonymous vs Pseudonymous Internet Science
  10. Philosophical Transactions: Jon on One Year Post-Potato-Diet
  11. Links for September 2023
  12. Mysteries Contest: Winners
  13. Links for August 2023
  14. Vacation Study Ideas
  15. Vote in the Mysteries Contest
  16. Your Mystery: What’s the Deal With A̶i̶r̶p̶l̶a̶n̶e̶ ̶F̶o̶o̶d̶ Iodine and Longevity?
  17. Links for July 2023
  18. Still not Sold on Seed Oils
  19. Your Mystery: Have Attention Spans Been Declining?
  20. Your Mystery: Why is autism rare among the Amish?
  21. Review of Krinn’s Self-Experiment Where She Lost Weight Taking High Doses of Potassium
  22. Links for June 2023
  23. N=1: Bite the Bullet
  24. More on Macros
  25. Half-Tato Diet Analysis
  26. N=1: Dr. Garcia’s Queasy Irradiated Rats
  27. Links for May 2023
  28. N=1: n of small
  29. Links for April 2023
  30. N=1: Latency and Half-Life
  31. N=1: Symptom vs. Syndrome
  32. Links for March 2023
  33. Half-Tato Diet Community Trial: Sign up Now
  34. Interview: Exfatloss on Ex150
  35. NHANES: Copper and Γ-Tocopherol
  36. Links for February 2023
  37. N=1: Why the Gender Gap in Chronic Illness?
  38. N=1: Hidden Variables and Superstition
  39. Links for January 2023
  40. SMTM Potato Diet Community Trial: 6 Month Followup
  41. N=1: Single-Subject Research
  42. Low-Dose Potassium at 60 Days
  43. N=1: Introduction
  44. MYSTERIOUS MYSTERIES OF UNSOLVED MYSTERY: Call for Entries

2022 49

  1. Links for December 2022
  2. People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight
  3. Philosophical Transactions: M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default
  4. Links for November 2022
  5. Links That Go Bump in the Night (October 2022)
  6. Study: Subclinical Doses of Lithium Have Plenty of Effects
  7. Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial: Sign up Now
  8. Say No to Neurotypification
  9. Links for September 2022
  10. Behind the Scenes: Lithium Removal with Household Water Purification Devices
  11. Links for August 2022
  12. Constitution Review: John Brown’s Provisional Constitution
  13. Effective Illegalism
  14. Links for July 2022
  15. On the Hunt for Ginormous Effect Sizes
  16. LOSE 10.6 POUNDS in FOUR WEEKS with this ONE WEIRD TRICK Discovered by Local Slime Hive Mind! Doctors GRUDGINGLY RESPECT Them, Hope to Become Friends
  17. Total Diet Studies and the Mystery of ICP-MS
  18. Links for June 2022
  19. A Series of Unfortunate Omelettes: Lithium in Food Review & Survey Proposal
  20. Links for May 2022
  21. Norway, the Once and Future Georgist Kingdom
  22. Every Bug is Shallow if One of Your Readers is an Entomologist
  23. Job Posting: Reddit Research Czar
  24. Links for April 2022
  25. Potato Diet Community Trial: Sign up Now, lol
  26. Peer Review: Obesity II – Establishing Causal Links Between Chemical Exposures and Obesity
  27. DISCO ELYSIUM BREAKS THE LOOMS OF RPGs
  28. Book Review: A Square Meal – Part II: Politics
  29. Book Review: A Square Meal – Part I: Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s
  30. Links for March 2022
  31. Philosophical Transactions: Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield
  32. The Only True Wisdom is Knowing that You Can’t Draw a Bicycle
  33. Three Angles on Erik Hoel’s Aristocratic Tutoring
  34. Control and Correlation
  35. Links for February 2022
  36. Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics
  37. Charter Houses
  38. Ogilvy on Dating: The Consumer isn’t a Moron, She is [Hopefully] your Wife
  39. The Scientific Virtues
  40. Predictions for 1950
  41. Links for January 2022
  42. Like a Lemon to a Lime, a Lime to a Lemon
  43. Newsletter Natural Selection
  44. TODOs from Paper Systems
  45. A Few More Predictions for 2050
  46. Double Book Review: Confessions of an Ad Man & The Way of the General
  47. Reality is Very Weird and You Need to be Prepared for That
  48. The Didactic Novel
  49. Predictions for 2050

2021 39

  1. Links for December 2021
  2. A Chemical Hunger – Part X: What to Do About It
  3. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude I: The Fattest Cities in the Land
  4. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude H: Well Well Well
  5. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude G: Li+
  6. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude F: Demographics
  7. A Chemical Hunger – Part IX: Anorexia in Animals
  8. A Chemical Hunger – Part VIII: Paradoxical Reactions
  9. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude E: Bad Seeds
  10. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude D: Glyphosate (AKA the active ingredient in Roundup)
  11. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude C: Highlights from the Reddit Comments
  12. A Chemical Hunger – Part VII: Lithium
  13. Links for July 2021
  14. A Chemical Hunger – Part VI: PFAS
  15. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude B: The Nutrient Sludge Diet
  16. A Chemical Hunger – Part V: Livestock Antibiotics
  17. A Chemical Hunger – Part IV: Criteria
  18. A Chemical Hunger – Interlude A: CICO Killer, Qu’est-Ce Que C’est?
  19. A Chemical Hunger – Part III: Environmental Contaminants
  20. A Chemical Hunger – Part II: Current Theories of Obesity are Inadequate
  21. A Chemical Hunger – Part I: Mysteries
  22. Links for June 2021
  23. Links for May 2021
  24. Cheating at School is a Better Idea Than Ever
  25. Sobering Drug Tales that didn’t make it into “Higher”
  26. I Want to Believe the Sexy van Leeuwenhoek is Out There
  27. Links for April 2021
  28. Higher than the Shoulders of Giants; Or, a Scientist’s History of Drugs
  29. Investigation: Were Polish Aristocrats in the 1890s really that Obese? by Budnik & Henneberg (2016)
  30. Links for March 2021
  31. Introducing The People’s Bill
  32. Drugs Fun, Heroin Still Dangerous
  33. Links for February 2021
  34. Tricameral Legislatures
  35. Investigation: Hypobaric Hypoxia Causes Body Weight Reduction by Lippl et al. (2010)
  36. Links for January 2021
  37. Investigation: Ultra-Processed Diets by Hall et al. (2019)
  38. Statistics is an Excellent Servant and a Bad Master
  39. I Don’t Give a Shit About 5% More Damage

2020 7

  1. Links for December 2020
  2. It May Surprise You to Learn the Senate is a Beacon of Liberal Politics
  3. Film Concept: Gangsters, Thugs, and Local Government
  4. You Make My Head Hurt
  5. Mulch Ado About Nothing
  6. Links for October
  7. Slime Mold Part I