Sitemap - 2024 - Subtle Sparks

Coffee Break

The Crow and the Octopus (or Cognition in the Brain)

Monkey Twins and Big-Brained Babies

Zombie Biology, Social Technology, and the Hivemind

Coffee Shop Conversations

Phoenix Avatars and Main Character Syndrome

How Viruses Made Us Human

A Trickster Treat

Sleeping Sharks, Einstein vs Bergson, and Feeling Stuck in Life

Internet Beasts: Trolls, Golems, and Gremlins, Oh My

Coffee Shop Conversations

Spiders in Space and the Meaning of Life

The Begging Creator Economy

Sexy Lives

Mozart's Spaceship and Female Genius

Spandrels and Sparks

The Game of Life: Pixel Patterns, Gamification, and Peter Pan

The Sloth and the Greenland Shark

Sex Robots and the Future of Physical Intimacy

(Don't) Kill Me Now

Sisyphus, Aristotle, and Downhill Writing

I, Robot - Or, a Story of Broken Masculinity

The Evolution of Romantic Love

Quantify Me, Baby

Conspicuous Mimicry and Blurry Botox

Free Will is Partially Real

Olympic Body Dysmorphia

Lek Mating and Why (Most) Nightclubs Suck

The Battle of Microbial Asgard and the Rise of Complex Life

Reclaiming Agency (From the Self-Help Crowd)

Species Fraud: the Case of the Tibetan Beetle and Audubon's Birds

A Letter by Einstein, Peak Performance, and Artificial Human Labor

Love Is Dead and We Killed Her

Talking Animals and Non-Human Consciousness

Hopeful Monster

Is Your Writing a Product or a Process?

Play Together, Stay Together?

Can We Engineer Wisdom Into Our Virtual Assistants?

Writing As Thinking, How To Raise Your AI, and… Volcano Snail!

Attachment Styles and Being Dependently Independent

Drug Maps and Idea Paths

Language Games and Jungle Writing

On (the Absence of?) Good Men

Can You Grow a Growth Mindset?

Tribalism and (Un)belonging

A Life of Your Own

Self Envy and Social Media Tragedy

The Essence of Life

Tumor Cities and Science Metaphors

One Bias to Rule Them All

Declining Birth Rates and Collapsing Pyramids

Gurus and Halo Effects

Ooh, Sparkles!

The Shadows of Creation

Partner Preferences and Dating Deal-breakers

Planned Obsolescence

Hustle Culture and the Millennial Curse

Artificially Narrowed Minds

Betting on Love

This Is (Not) the Brand You're Looking For

The Depression Gap Is Smaller Than You Think

Alpha Males in the Manosphere

We and Our Data Fetish

Sexism in Science | Toxic Academia

The Problem With Utopia