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Suicide Research: A Joke With No Punchline
"From your publication record, we can see you are an expert in this subject area and we invite you to submit an abstract. Please note that an article…
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We Can Never Go Home Again
Why we’re collectively — still — really fucked up by the pandemic, and worse off for not being able to acknowledge that in a meaningful way.
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One Weird Trick to Quit Stupid, Timewasting Content
Seriously though, try it. You've got nothing to lose except 4.5 hours every day of your single, finite and utterly unrepeatable lifespan.
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May 2025

Longing for Something? Play the Tape Forward
Human brains are notoriously bad at knowing what will make them happy, even before you marinate them in 24/7 marketing and deep fry them in 2am TikToks…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Survival at sea has a lot in common with holding oneself through life's most painful experiences. To get through in one piece, you need to know when to…
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The Drama of the Deaf Mother
Musings on the compulsion to write, the longing to be seen, growing up neurodiverse, and the danger of playing "Look, Mom!" all your life.
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Life Won't Wait Forever. Neither Should You.
There's something you're not doing that you probably should be. If you've tried all the tips and tricks, and you're still Not Doing the Thing, maybe…
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April 2025

In Praise of Masking
Let's stop treating "masking" as a blanket negative, and start thinking about how to balance our individual differences against the health and strength…
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When your kid is officially "different"
A break from regular programming.
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Catalysts: The Science of Art & Trauma
While it might not be possible or wise to try and transform trauma into art, it’s entirely within your power to USE it in your art. But only if you want…
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Alchemy: the Science of Art & Trauma
It is a great untruth that real art is always, only, and ever about dark things. But there's a seed of something useful and real at the core of the lie.
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March 2025

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