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1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad. Click to read Experimental History, by Adam Mastroianni, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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I like 'em thick
photo cred: my dadI owe an apology to every English teacher I ever had. I always assumed that so-called "great" literature was a hoax, a punishment inflicted upon adolescents for the crime of being young. These books did not have anything special about th
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Incentives are for losers
photo cred: my dadWe can all agree: the incentives are bad. Everywhere you look, people are being rewarded for doing the wrong thing. This has become the go-to diagnosis for every problem, from climate change to political polarization to scientific malfea
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Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners
photo cred: my dadThis is the third annual Experimental History Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree, where people send me their best new blog posts and I reward my favorites with praise and cash.This year, I got 68 submissions from folks all
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The Decline of Deviance 2
photo cred: my dadIn The Decline of Deviance, I argued that:Many forms of risk-taking and rule-breaking have declined since the 1990s.This is both good (less crime) and bad (less innovation).Deviance is declining because prosperity has increased-people ha
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The most wonderful thing that happened to Tommy McHugh
photo cred: my dadThis is the quarterly links 'n' updates post, a collection of things I've been reading and doing for the past few months.(1) THE MOST WONDERFUL THING THAT HAPPENED TO TOMMY MCHUGHA British man named Tommy McHugh was on the toilet pooping
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