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• Nine Things Nerds Can Appreciate about Football’s Game Design
• Top 10 Time/Space Manipulation Puzzle Games
• Bet You Can’t Solve The Birthday Paradox
• Forget 3-D Chess; Here’s My 1-D Chess Rules
• A Pretty-Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism
• Finding Pi From Random Numbers
• Which Cognitive Bias is Making NFL Coaches Predictable?
• Quantifying the Trump-iness of Political Sentences
• An Atheist’s Defense of Rituals: Ceremonies as Traffic Lights
• The Matrix Meets Braid: Artificial Brains in Gunfights
• Why Decision Theory Tells You to Eat ALL the Cupcakes
• How has Bayes’ Rule changed the way I think?
• What Would a Rational Gryffindor Read?
• Messing With Time: Why The Flash is in Hell
• Colbert Deconstructs Pop Music, Finds Mathematical Nerdiness Within
• Will moving to California make you happier?
• How to Raise a Rationalist Kid
• Be a Communications Consequentialist
• Time Travel Art: Fantastic Video
• Pick a name for a rationality non-profit!
• The Simulation Hypothesis and the Problem of Evil
• Spirituality and “skeptuality”
• How to want to change your mind
• RS episode #54: The “isms” episode
• A rational view of tradition
• My kind of protest sign
• Basking in Reflected Glory: Football, Self Esteem, and Pronoun Choice
• RS episode #53: Parapsychology
• Why Blocking Roads Can Speed Up Traffic
• You’re such an essentialist!
• Thoughts on science podcasting: A dispatch from ScienceOnline 2012
• My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!
• Review: The Book of Mormon
• How rationality can make your life more awesome
• What’s so special about living longer?
• The Straw Vulcan: Hollywood’s illogical approach to logical decisionmaking
• RS #48: Philosophical Counseling
• Nerdy Romance Mistakes
• Coach Smith’s Gutsy Call
• How Should Rationalists Approach Death?
• What do philosophers think about intuition?
• A Sleeping Beauty paradox
• RS #47: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
• The Penrose Triangle of Beliefs
• Easy Math Puzzle – Or is it?
• Why this Meme Exploded
• What is “objectification,” and what’s wrong with it?
• Overcoming The Curse of Knowledge
• Spinoza, Godel, and Theories of Everything
• Being a Dick is not Binary
• Ender Wiggin, Harry Potter, and Kurt Godel
• Reflections on pain, from the burn unit
• The Social Psychology of Burning Man
• Pain Research: Not Minding That It Hurts
• Lies and Debunked Legends about the Golden Ratio
• Self-Referential Haikus and Nerdy Math Shirts
• The darker the night, the brighter the stars?
• Tales of Badass Mathematicians: Cardano
• Calibrating our Confidence
• De Finetti’s Game: How to Quantify Belief
• Ethics of the sex tape
• Video Short: Sentient Meat
• RS#40: Q&A with Massimo and Julia
• The Ethics of Paranormal Investigation, Part 2 of 2
• The Ethics of Paranormal Investigation, Part 1 of 2
• Happy Tau Day!
• Loaded words
• Why being vegetarian can kill more animals than eating meat
• RS#37: The science and philosophy of happiness
• Bayesian truth serum
• Game Theory and Football: How Irrationality Affects Play Calling
• Game theory and basketball
• I feel ya, Gureckis
• Asking for reassurance: a Bayesian interpretation
• Why Imagined Indulgence Helps Us Diet
• A crab canon for Douglas Hofstadter
• RS#36: Why should we care about teaching the humanities?
• “Stand back everyone, I’ve been trained for situations like this…”
• The Game Theory of Story Endings
• A. J. Ayer to the rescue!
• An economist’s tips for dining and cooking
• Does it make sense to play the lottery?
• All Wikipedia Roads Were Forced to Philosophy
• How to argue on the internet
• When Literal Honesty Goes Awry
• Oh Sidney, you wag
• Thinking in greyscale
• RS #35: What is philosophy of science good for?
• Does “socially responsible” investing do any good?
• Quality Webcomic Nerdiness
• Kindles not Replacing Textbooks Yet
• Math education: you’re doing it wrong
• Synching Up: Another Cool Physics Video
• The Transplant Problem
• “Is there an answer?” Searching for the meaning of life in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
• RS#34: Why do people listen to celebrities’ opinions?
• The D.I.Y. way of getting a probability estimate from your doctor
• Simple, Beautiful Physics: Video
• Why learn geography?
• Computer Learns to Tell Dirty Jokes