An Educated Guess

Hiatus: book & grant writing

I'll be back

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January 2025

The Hidden Cost Of Unreliable Insurance

Profit-driven health insurance may irreparably damage what it ought to aid: health.

Jan 29 • 

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November 2024

Compress your life, feel better

What the tech behind the ZIP file can teach us about busyness and calm.

Nov 8, 2024 • 

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August 2024

A fish tale that slams science

How cod ecology reveals the limitations of science and mathematical modeling.

Aug 12, 2024 • 

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July 2024

Why Academics Are Annoyed With Jonathan Haidt, Again

His new book is not a careful study of psychiatric epidemiology; it is a social critique that emanates from a school of thought best described as…

Jul 15, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Three key things I learned about mental health

My two cents for Mental Health Awareness Week

May 16, 2024 • 

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April 2024

The job of the future will be complex, and therefore frustrating

In which we discuss a second driver of workplace stress—effort-reward imbalance—and learn why the term 'burnout' was originally reserved for human…

Apr 26, 2024 • 

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Do you feel in control at work? It could determine your health

Workplace stress, part I

Apr 16, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Are social media bad for mental health? It's the wrong question.

What the historical eras of epidemiology can teach us about tackling a modern problem.

Mar 12, 2024 • 

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February 2024

The lower middle class isn't middle-class anymore

Time to stop the twin flywheels of inequality

Feb 2, 2024 • 

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January 2024

Data dispatch #5: does money make you happy?

An "adversarial collaboration" between famous scientists sheds new light on an age-old question.

Jan 19, 2024 • 

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What a legendary economist got wrong—and right—about our "economic problem"

Or: what a 2022 stress survey reveals about our political priorities

Jan 14, 2024 • 

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