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YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask YOU SEARCHED FOR ELON MUSK Search Results for: Elon Musk. The Elon Musk Post Series. Examining Elon Musk Up Close. Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man. The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce ( The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce. Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future (GHORIZONTAL HISTORY
Horizontal History. January 13, 2016 By Tim Urban. Most of us have a pretty terrible understanding of history. Our knowledge is spotty, with large gaps all over the place, and the parts of history we do end up knowing a lot about usually depend on the particular teachers, parents, books, articles, and movies we happen to come across in ourlives.
THE ELON MUSK POST SERIES Not something you expect to happen. What ensued was a six-month deep dive into the world of Elon and his companies and four long articles about what I found. Here they are: Post 1: About Elon—and an intro to the whole series. Post 2: The full story with Tesla. Post 3: The full story with SpaceX. Post 4: About Elon’s secret sauce—the wayTHOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER A single person who would like to find a great relationship is one step away from it, with their to-do list reading, “1) Find a great relationship.”. People in unhappy relationships, on the other hand, are three leaps away, with a to-do list of “1) Go through a soul-crushing break-up. 2) Emotionally recover. THE STORY OF US: FULL SERIES The Story of Us: Full Series. Sign up for our email list and we’ll let you know when new posts are published. Tweet. About Tim Urban. View all posts by Tim Urban →. Previous Post. WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN The Story of Us: Full Series. How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future. 100 Blocks a Day. The Second Presidential Debate. SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothi Wait But Hi – Full Report. Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask YOU SEARCHED FOR ELON MUSK Search Results for: Elon Musk. The Elon Musk Post Series. Examining Elon Musk Up Close. Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man. The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce ( The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce. Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future (GHORIZONTAL HISTORY
Horizontal History. January 13, 2016 By Tim Urban. Most of us have a pretty terrible understanding of history. Our knowledge is spotty, with large gaps all over the place, and the parts of history we do end up knowing a lot about usually depend on the particular teachers, parents, books, articles, and movies we happen to come across in ourlives.
THE ELON MUSK POST SERIES Not something you expect to happen. What ensued was a six-month deep dive into the world of Elon and his companies and four long articles about what I found. Here they are: Post 1: About Elon—and an intro to the whole series. Post 2: The full story with Tesla. Post 3: The full story with SpaceX. Post 4: About Elon’s secret sauce—the wayTHOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER A single person who would like to find a great relationship is one step away from it, with their to-do list reading, “1) Find a great relationship.”. People in unhappy relationships, on the other hand, are three leaps away, with a to-do list of “1) Go through a soul-crushing break-up. 2) Emotionally recover. THE STORY OF US: FULL SERIES The Story of Us: Full Series. Sign up for our email list and we’ll let you know when new posts are published. Tweet. About Tim Urban. View all posts by Tim Urban →. Previous Post. WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
ENERGY FOR DUMMIES
Hydropower. Hydropower is the other relatively prominent renewable energy, representing almost 4% of the world’s energy and over 8% of the electricity in the US. 1 It works by harnessing the power of gravity by placing a dam in front of water that’s falling or rushing downstream. When the water forces its way through the dam, it spins a WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth. THE STORY OF US: FULL SERIES The Story of Us: Full Series. Sign up for our email list and we’ll let you know when new posts are published. Tweet. About Tim Urban. View all posts by Tim Urban →. Previous Post. IDEA LABS AND ECHO CHAMBERS An Echo Chamber works the opposite way. The Idea Lab’s toxin—bias and misconception—is the Echo Chamber’s immune system. The Idea Lab’s immune system—doubt and dissent—is precisely the Echo Chamber’s toxin. Each immune system is made of that which the other immune system is built to guard against.THE DEAL WITH SOLAR
The sun powers the weather, causing wind, precipitation, and warmth to exist; it’s the original source of all fossil fuel energy; and it powers the whole biosphere and its murder/theft cycle. 1 Harnessing solar energy just cuts out various middlemen and goes straight to the source. So we have this endless energy source and on the other side STICK FIGURE IDENTITY GUIDE Yes you are. Here’s the thing. As a writer, I have five options regarding gender pronouns: 1) Say “he or she” and “him or her” and “his or hers” a lot. This is awful, annoying writing. It sounds like this: 2) Alternate. Some characters or examples will be “he” and others will be “she.”. I’ve tried this one. IS THE MAN SAYING BAR OR FAR? March 31, 2015 By Tim Urban. In this audiovisual illusion, if you click the sound button on the video and watch the clip on the left, it sounds like he’s saying “bar.”. But if you watch the clip on the right, it suddenly sounds like he’s saying “far.”. This is a result of something called the McGurk Effect, which describes the HOW (AND WHY) SPACEX WILL COLONIZE MARS The Tesla and SpaceX posts were special cases, and you can expect a return to more normal-length WBW posts now that they’re done. About the post itself: There are three main parts. Part 1 provides the context and background, Part 2 explores the “Why” part of colonizing Mars, and Part 3 THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
LIFE IS A PICTURE, BUT YOU LIVE IN A PIXEL Jack sees his life as a rich picture depicting an epic story and assumes that the key to his happiness lies in the broad components of the image. But this is a mistake, because Jack doesn’t live in the picture’s broad strokes, he lives at all times in a single pixel of the image—a single Today. So while thousands of Jack’s Todays will WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN The Story of Us: Full Series. How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future. 100 Blocks a Day. The Second Presidential Debate. SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothi Wait But Hi – Full Report. Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to askTHE TAIL END
But I think it is the only thing that matters, because in a way, everything happens for the last time in our lives, AT ALL TIMES. The only true radical act of love is to become one with the present moment. Every moment unfolding in front of you is the last time thatTHOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TESLA WILL CHANGE THE WORLD Fossil Fuels Brush-Up. Coal, a black sedimentary rock that’s found in underground layers called coal beds, is the cheapest and most plentiful of the three and is used almost entirely for making electricity.It’s also the worst culprit for CO 2 emissions, releasing about 30% more CO 2 than the burning of oil and about double that of natural gas when generating an equivalent amount of heat.4 WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
PUTTING TIME IN PERSPECTIVE August 22, 2013 By Tim Urban. Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it. WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN The Story of Us: Full Series. How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future. 100 Blocks a Day. The Second Presidential Debate. SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothi Wait But Hi – Full Report. Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to askTHE TAIL END
But I think it is the only thing that matters, because in a way, everything happens for the last time in our lives, AT ALL TIMES. The only true radical act of love is to become one with the present moment. Every moment unfolding in front of you is the last time thatTHOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TESLA WILL CHANGE THE WORLD Fossil Fuels Brush-Up. Coal, a black sedimentary rock that’s found in underground layers called coal beds, is the cheapest and most plentiful of the three and is used almost entirely for making electricity.It’s also the worst culprit for CO 2 emissions, releasing about 30% more CO 2 than the burning of oil and about double that of natural gas when generating an equivalent amount of heat.4 WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
PUTTING TIME IN PERSPECTIVE August 22, 2013 By Tim Urban. Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask MAILBAG #2 — WAIT BUT WHY Mailbag #2. April 14, 2021 By Tim Urban. Last month, I emailed readers announcing an upcoming mailbag post—the WBW post version of an AMA. 1,500 questions poured in—remarkably interesting, creative questions on a wide range of topics. I picked some for this round, and we’re keeping the rest in a database that I’ll go back to for future ALL THE WEIRD TOYS FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD Toy: The Yo Yo. Age when I became obsessed with it: 7. Amount of time before I became bored with it: 1 week; recurring obsession. Downside: The string gets twisted and then you have to stand there and let it spin itself untwisted while your limited time on this earth diminishes. Overall rating: 5.5/10. EVERYTHING YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT TIPPING 8) According to Lynn, tips in the US add up to $40 billion each year. This is more than double NASA’s budget. 9) The US is the most tip-crazed country in the world, but there’s a wide variety of tipping customs in other countries. THE ELON MUSK POST SERIES Not something you expect to happen. What ensued was a six-month deep dive into the world of Elon and his companies and four long articles about what I found. Here they are: Post 1: About Elon—and an intro to the whole series. Post 2: The full story with Tesla. Post 3: The full story with SpaceX. Post 4: About Elon’s secret sauce—the way THE STORY OF US: FULL SERIES The Story of Us: Full Series. Sign up for our email list and we’ll let you know when new posts are published. Tweet. About Tim Urban. View all posts by Tim Urban →. Previous Post. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this: And at first glance, research seems to back this up, suggesting that married people are on average happier than single people and much happier than divorced people. 1 But a closer analysis reveals that if you split up “married people” into two groups based on marriage quality, “people in self-assessed poor marriages are fairly RELIGION FOR THE NONRELIGIOUS Step 1: Our Lives in the Fog. Step 1 is the lowest step, the foggiest step, and unfortunately, for most of us it’s our default level of existence. On Step 1, the fog is all up in our shit, thick and close and clogging our senses, leaving us going through life unconscious. 7.3 BILLION PEOPLE, ONE BUILDING The world population has grown by 194,000,000, or almost 3%, since then. Second, 7.3 billion people is a lot of people. If each living human were represented by a dry grain of rice, the rice would fill a cube-shaped box with a side of 6.1 meters, 1 or about 20 feet—around the size of a two-story house. That’s a lot of rice grains. IS THE MAN SAYING BAR OR FAR? March 31, 2015 By Tim Urban. In this audiovisual illusion, if you click the sound button on the video and watch the clip on the left, it sounds like he’s saying “bar.”. But if you watch the clip on the right, it suddenly sounds like he’s saying “far.”. This is a result of something called the McGurk Effect, which describes the WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN The Story of Us: Full Series. How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future. 100 Blocks a Day. The Second Presidential Debate. SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothi Wait But Hi – Full Report. Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to askTHE TAIL END
But I think it is the only thing that matters, because in a way, everything happens for the last time in our lives, AT ALL TIMES. The only true radical act of love is to become one with the present moment. Every moment unfolding in front of you is the last time thatTHOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TESLA WILL CHANGE THE WORLD Fossil Fuels Brush-Up. Coal, a black sedimentary rock that’s found in underground layers called coal beds, is the cheapest and most plentiful of the three and is used almost entirely for making electricity.It’s also the worst culprit for CO 2 emissions, releasing about 30% more CO 2 than the burning of oil and about double that of natural gas when generating an equivalent amount of heat.4 WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
PUTTING TIME IN PERSPECTIVE August 22, 2013 By Tim Urban. Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it. WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN The Story of Us: Full Series. How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future. 100 Blocks a Day. The Second Presidential Debate. SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothi Wait But Hi – Full Report. Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to askTHE TAIL END
But I think it is the only thing that matters, because in a way, everything happens for the last time in our lives, AT ALL TIMES. The only true radical act of love is to become one with the present moment. Every moment unfolding in front of you is the last time thatTHOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TESLA WILL CHANGE THE WORLD Fossil Fuels Brush-Up. Coal, a black sedimentary rock that’s found in underground layers called coal beds, is the cheapest and most plentiful of the three and is used almost entirely for making electricity.It’s also the worst culprit for CO 2 emissions, releasing about 30% more CO 2 than the burning of oil and about double that of natural gas when generating an equivalent amount of heat.4 WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
PUTTING TIME IN PERSPECTIVE Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask MAILBAG #2 — WAIT BUT WHY Mailbag #2. April 14, 2021 By Tim Urban. Last month, I emailed readers announcing an upcoming mailbag post—the WBW post version of an AMA. 1,500 questions poured in—remarkably interesting, creative questions on a wide range of topics. I picked some for this round, and we’re keeping the rest in a database that I’ll go back to for future ALL THE WEIRD TOYS FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD Toy: The Yo Yo. Age when I became obsessed with it: 7. Amount of time before I became bored with it: 1 week; recurring obsession. Downside: The string gets twisted and then you have to stand there and let it spin itself untwisted while your limited time on this earth diminishes. Overall rating: 5.5/10. EVERYTHING YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT TIPPING 8) According to Lynn, tips in the US add up to $40 billion each year. This is more than double NASA’s budget. 9) The US is the most tip-crazed country in the world, but there’s a wide variety of tipping customs in other countries. THE ELON MUSK POST SERIES Not something you expect to happen. What ensued was a six-month deep dive into the world of Elon and his companies and four long articles about what I found. Here they are: Post 1: About Elon—and an intro to the whole series. Post 2: The full story with Tesla. Post 3: The full story with SpaceX. Post 4: About Elon’s secret sauce—the way THE STORY OF US: FULL SERIES The Story of Us: Full Series. Sign up for our email list and we’ll let you know when new posts are published. Tweet. About Tim Urban. View all posts by Tim Urban →. Previous Post. RELIGION FOR THE NONRELIGIOUS Step 1: Our Lives in the Fog. Step 1 is the lowest step, the foggiest step, and unfortunately, for most of us it’s our default level of existence. On Step 1, the fog is all up in our shit, thick and close and clogging our senses, leaving us going through life unconscious. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this: And at first glance, research seems to back this up, suggesting that married people are on average happier than single people and much happier than divorced people. 1 But a closer analysis reveals that if you split up “married people” into two groups based on marriage quality, “people in self-assessed poor marriages are fairly 7.3 BILLION PEOPLE, ONE BUILDING The world population has grown by 194,000,000, or almost 3%, since then. Second, 7.3 billion people is a lot of people. If each living human were represented by a dry grain of rice, the rice would fill a cube-shaped box with a side of 6.1 meters, 1 or about 20 feet—around the size of a two-story house. That’s a lot of rice grains. IS THE MAN SAYING BAR OR FAR? March 31, 2015 By Tim Urban. In this audiovisual illusion, if you click the sound button on the video and watch the clip on the left, it sounds like he’s saying “bar.”. But if you watch the clip on the right, it suddenly sounds like he’s saying “far.”. This is a result of something called the McGurk Effect, which describes the WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN The Story of Us: Full Series. How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future. 100 Blocks a Day. The Second Presidential Debate. SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothi Wait But Hi – Full Report. Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad.YOUR LIFE IN WEEKS
Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask IDEA LABS AND ECHO CHAMBERS An Echo Chamber works the opposite way. The Idea Lab’s toxin—bias and misconception—is the Echo Chamber’s immune system. The Idea Lab’s immune system—doubt and dissent—is precisely the Echo Chamber’s toxin. Each immune system is made of that which the other immune system is built to guard against. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.THOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER A single person who would like to find a great relationship is one step away from it, with their to-do list reading, “1) Find a great relationship.”. People in unhappy relationships, on the other hand, are three leaps away, with a to-do list of “1) Go through a soul-crushing break-up. 2) Emotionally recover. THE ELON MUSK POST SERIES Not something you expect to happen. What ensued was a six-month deep dive into the world of Elon and his companies and four long articles about what I found. Here they are: Post 1: About Elon—and an intro to the whole series. Post 2: The full story with Tesla. Post 3: The full story with SpaceX. Post 4: About Elon’s secret sauce—the way THE STORY OF US: FULL SERIES The Story of Us: Full Series. Sign up for our email list and we’ll let you know when new posts are published. Tweet. About Tim Urban. View all posts by Tim Urban →. Previous Post. WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
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Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask IDEA LABS AND ECHO CHAMBERS An Echo Chamber works the opposite way. The Idea Lab’s toxin—bias and misconception—is the Echo Chamber’s immune system. The Idea Lab’s immune system—doubt and dissent—is precisely the Echo Chamber’s toxin. Each immune system is made of that which the other immune system is built to guard against. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.THOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER A single person who would like to find a great relationship is one step away from it, with their to-do list reading, “1) Find a great relationship.”. People in unhappy relationships, on the other hand, are three leaps away, with a to-do list of “1) Go through a soul-crushing break-up. 2) Emotionally recover. THE ELON MUSK POST SERIES Not something you expect to happen. What ensued was a six-month deep dive into the world of Elon and his companies and four long articles about what I found. Here they are: Post 1: About Elon—and an intro to the whole series. Post 2: The full story with Tesla. Post 3: The full story with SpaceX. Post 4: About Elon’s secret sauce—the way THE STORY OF US: FULL SERIES The Story of Us: Full Series. Sign up for our email list and we’ll let you know when new posts are published. Tweet. About Tim Urban. View all posts by Tim Urban →. Previous Post. WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
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Hydropower. Hydropower is the other relatively prominent renewable energy, representing almost 4% of the world’s energy and over 8% of the electricity in the US. 1 It works by harnessing the power of gravity by placing a dam in front of water that’s falling or rushing downstream. When the water forces its way through the dam, it spins a MAILBAG #2 — WAIT BUT WHY Mailbag #2. April 14, 2021 By Tim Urban. Last month, I emailed readers announcing an upcoming mailbag post—the WBW post version of an AMA. 1,500 questions poured in—remarkably interesting, creative questions on a wide range of topics. I picked some for this round, and we’re keeping the rest in a database that I’ll go back to for future WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth. IDEA LABS AND ECHO CHAMBERS An Echo Chamber works the opposite way. The Idea Lab’s toxin—bias and misconception—is the Echo Chamber’s immune system. The Idea Lab’s immune system—doubt and dissent—is precisely the Echo Chamber’s toxin. Each immune system is made of that which the other immune system is built to guard against. WHICH DRUGS SHOULD BE LEGAL? First of all, “drugs” is an insanely broad category that includes everything from caffeine to Tylenol to LSD to Xanax to MDMA. Secondly, it’s not as clean cut as: “Over-the-counter, prescription, and other kinds of legal drugs are all harmless, while illegal drugs are dangerous and ruin lives.”. There are drugs being used bothHORIZONTAL HISTORY
Horizontal History. January 13, 2016 By Tim Urban. Most of us have a pretty terrible understanding of history. Our knowledge is spotty, with large gaps all over the place, and the parts of history we do end up knowing a lot about usually depend on the particular teachers, parents, books, articles, and movies we happen to come across in ourlives.
WHEN IS IT OKAY TO LIE? The rules are very simple but vary subtly between combat and non-combat situations like the : 1. Lying has to be used to achieve the highest possible sum from all options. 2. There can no other way to achieve it. 2. The one being lied to must be the greatest beneficiary of the result of the lie. HOW TO BEAT PROCRASTINATION Set an alarm to remind yourself to start a task, or to remind you of the stakes. Minimize distractions by all means necessary. If TV’s a huge problem, sell your TV. If the internet’s a huge problem, get a second computer for work that has Wifi disabled, HOW (AND WHY) SPACEX WILL COLONIZE MARS The Tesla and SpaceX posts were special cases, and you can expect a return to more normal-length WBW posts now that they’re done. About the post itself: There are three main parts. Part 1 provides the context and background, Part 2 explores the “Why” part of colonizing Mars, and Part 3 TRAVELING TO THE THIRD WORLD IS GREAT AND ALSO IT SUCKS Traveling To The Third World Is Great And Also It Sucks. The thing about visiting the Developing World when you live in the Developed World is that it’s a rich, eye-opening, perspective-building cultural experience and the other thing about it is that it sucks. You know that upsetting person who posts pictures on Facebook ofthemselves doing
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Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.THOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER A single person who would like to find a great relationship is one step away from it, with their to-do list reading, “1) Find a great relationship.”. People in unhappy relationships, on the other hand, are three leaps away, with a to-do list of “1) Go through a soul-crushing break-up. 2) Emotionally recover. WHY YOU SECRETLY HATE COOL BARS Why You Secretly Hate Cool Bars. In most cities around the world, bars are at the core of the social scene and go hand in hand with youth culture. Which is weird, because this is a diagram that exists: The word “bar” can refer to a variety of places—a handy rule is, the cooler the bar, the more horrible the life experience it will provide. WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
LIFE IS A PICTURE, BUT YOU LIVE IN A PIXEL Jack sees his life as a rich picture depicting an epic story and assumes that the key to his happiness lies in the broad components of the image. But this is a mistake, because Jack doesn’t live in the picture’s broad strokes, he lives at all times in a single pixel of the image—a single Today. So while thousands of Jack’s Todays will THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
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Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond. Here’s one: If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Level 1) The Violating Bug Incident —A bug inside your home, on the wall or floor. Level 2) The Incredibly Violating Bug Incident —A bug in your bed or on your body. But we’ve yet to broach the third and most deadly type of Bug Incident: Level 3) The Life-Changing Bug Incident —A bug under your clothes or in your mouth.THOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
I thought the “If he was innocent, damn was he unlucky” thing by producer Dana on the last episode was the strongest case against Adnan, but because I deep down still just don’t really believe he did it, and because he’s so likable, I’m still on his team. I hope he didn’t do it and I hope he somehow gets out of jail. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER A single person who would like to find a great relationship is one step away from it, with their to-do list reading, “1) Find a great relationship.”. People in unhappy relationships, on the other hand, are three leaps away, with a to-do list of “1) Go through a soul-crushing break-up. 2) Emotionally recover. WHY YOU SECRETLY HATE COOL BARS Why You Secretly Hate Cool Bars. In most cities around the world, bars are at the core of the social scene and go hand in hand with youth culture. Which is weird, because this is a diagram that exists: The word “bar” can refer to a variety of places—a handy rule is, the cooler the bar, the more horrible the life experience it will provide. WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY 1) Stay wildly ambitious. The current world is bubbling with opportunity for an ambitious person to find flowery, fulfilling success. The specific direction may be unclear, but it’ll work itself out—just dive in somewhere. 2) Stop thinking that you’re special. The fact is, right now, you’re not special. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY 2) Waiters Reciting Specials Out Loud. This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. Everyone would be happier if specials (and their prices) were printedon a sheet
LIFE IS A PICTURE, BUT YOU LIVE IN A PIXEL Jack sees his life as a rich picture depicting an epic story and assumes that the key to his happiness lies in the broad components of the image. But this is a mistake, because Jack doesn’t live in the picture’s broad strokes, he lives at all times in a single pixel of the image—a single Today. So while thousands of Jack’s Todays will THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
IDEA LABS AND ECHO CHAMBERS An Echo Chamber works the opposite way. The Idea Lab’s toxin—bias and misconception—is the Echo Chamber’s immune system. The Idea Lab’s immune system—doubt and dissent—is precisely the Echo Chamber’s toxin. Each immune system is made of that which the other immune system is built to guard against.THE TAIL END
But I think it is the only thing that matters, because in a way, everything happens for the last time in our lives, AT ALL TIMES. The only true radical act of love is to become one with the present moment. Every moment unfolding in front of you is the last time that THE ELON MUSK POST SERIES Not something you expect to happen. What ensued was a six-month deep dive into the world of Elon and his companies and four long articles about what I found. Here they are: Post 1: About Elon—and an intro to the whole series. Post 2: The full story with Tesla. Post 3: The full story with SpaceX. Post 4: About Elon’s secret sauce—the way 7.3 BILLION PEOPLE, ONE BUILDING The world population has grown by 194,000,000, or almost 3%, since then. Second, 7.3 billion people is a lot of people. If each living human were represented by a dry grain of rice, the rice would fill a cube-shaped box with a side of 6.1 meters, 1 or about 20 feet—around the size of a two-story house. That’s a lot of rice grains. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this: And at first glance, research seems to back this up, suggesting that married people are on average happier than single people and much happier than divorced people. 1 But a closer analysis reveals that if you split up “married people” into two groups based on marriage quality, “people in self-assessed poor marriages are fairly WHAT COULD YOU BUY WITH $241 TRILLION? How big a pizza could we buy for $241 trillion? A Domino’s 14″ pizza goes for $19 (at least in New York), which comes out to 52.3cm 2 per dollar. Using that rate, we can convert all human wealth to a pizza with area 1.26 million km 2, which is just about the area of Niger. Okay yeah, you need water I THE DEATH TOLL COMPARISON BREAKDOWN The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown. One of the things about humans is that they die sometimes, and one of the things humans pay a lot of attention to is other people dying. We do a pretty good job of distracting ourselves from the whole “I’m gonna die one day” thing, but the fixation is there, underneath the surface, and one wayit shows
JAPAN, AND HOW I FAILED TO FIGURE IT OUT If you’re not sure what Odd Things in Odd Places is and why I’m in Japan by myself, you can learn here.. It all started with a Gmail theme. A few years ago, on some standard Dark Playground toil session, I ended up deciding to shake things up in my life and try out a new Gmail theme. I finally settled on one called Tea House.1 Tea House takes place somewhere in Japan and centers around a 20 THINGS I LEARNED WHILE I WAS IN NORTH KOREA 2. Kim Jong Il (1941 – 2011) Kim Il Sung’s son, and the dick we all got to know well in the last decade. It’s said in North Korea that he was born on a sacred Korean mountain top (he was actually born in the Soviet Union) and that his birth caused winter to change to spring (it stayed winter). ELON MUSK: THE WORLD'S RADDEST MAN Elon Musk, for those unfamiliar, is the world’s raddest man. I’ll use this post to explore how he became a self-made billionaire and the real-life inspiration for Iron Man’s Tony Stark, but for the moment, I’ll let Richard Branson explain things briefly: 1. Whatever skeptics have said can’t be done, Elon has gone out and made real. WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almosteverything.
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This is a long human life in years: And here’s a human life in months: But today, we’re going to look at a human life in weeks: Each row of weeks makes up one year. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Ladybugs are pulling a fast one on us. If they were black, we wouldn’t like them. They’d be icky, small beetles. But humans are a cheap audience, and dressing up like a clown has done the trick and made them likable to humans.THOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
Spoilers abound. _____ There wasn’t supposed to be a Dinner Table topic this week, but I just finished the podcast Serial and couldn’thelp myself.
WHY YOU SECRETLY HATE COOL BARS In 2012, The New York Times found that NYC bars have gotten progressively louder over the years, to the point where they now regularly hit the dangerously-loud level of 100+ decibels, roughly the same volume of a chainsaw. Why? Because clinical studies showed HOW TO BEAT PROCRASTINATION The follow-up to these two posts: The Procrastination Matrix And two more related posts: Why you shouldn’t care what other people think. A different struggle going on LIFE IS A PICTURE, BUT YOU LIVE IN A PIXEL The relationship is going all right and Jack’s reasonably happy, but for a while now, Jack has known that the Today he’s with is not the one.Sure, he and Today have fun sometimes, but all too often, Jack feels like he’s dating a mundane Wednesday, and that’s certainly not the kind of Today he plans to be with in the long run. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this: And at first glance, research seems to back this up, suggesting that married people are on average happier than single people and much happier than divorced people. 1 But a closer analysis reveals that if you split up “married people” into two groups based on marriage quality, “people in self-assessed poor marriages are fairly WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY Say hi to Lucy. Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She’s also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon. WAIT BUT WHYMINISTHE SHEDSTOREWAIT BUT WHYSEARCHLOGIN A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almosteverything.
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This is a long human life in years: And here’s a human life in months: But today, we’re going to look at a human life in weeks: Each row of weeks makes up one year. WHY BUGS RUIN EVERYTHING Ladybugs are pulling a fast one on us. If they were black, we wouldn’t like them. They’d be icky, small beetles. But humans are a cheap audience, and dressing up like a clown has done the trick and made them likable to humans.THOUGHTS ON SERIAL?
Spoilers abound. _____ There wasn’t supposed to be a Dinner Table topic this week, but I just finished the podcast Serial and couldn’thelp myself.
WHY YOU SECRETLY HATE COOL BARS In 2012, The New York Times found that NYC bars have gotten progressively louder over the years, to the point where they now regularly hit the dangerously-loud level of 100+ decibels, roughly the same volume of a chainsaw. Why? Because clinical studies showed HOW TO BEAT PROCRASTINATION The follow-up to these two posts: The Procrastination Matrix And two more related posts: Why you shouldn’t care what other people think. A different struggle going on LIFE IS A PICTURE, BUT YOU LIVE IN A PIXEL The relationship is going all right and Jack’s reasonably happy, but for a while now, Jack has known that the Today he’s with is not the one.Sure, he and Today have fun sometimes, but all too often, Jack feels like he’s dating a mundane Wednesday, and that’s certainly not the kind of Today he plans to be with in the long run. HOW TO PICK YOUR LIFE PARTNER To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this: And at first glance, research seems to back this up, suggesting that married people are on average happier than single people and much happier than divorced people. 1 But a closer analysis reveals that if you split up “married people” into two groups based on marriage quality, “people in self-assessed poor marriages are fairly WHY GENERATION Y YUPPIES ARE UNHAPPY Say hi to Lucy. Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She’s also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. 7 ASININE THINGS ABOUT SOCIETY This is one of those situations, like wine bottles continuing to use corks instead of twist tops, where progress has ground to a halt because there’s a fear of being perceived as tacky if an idiotic system is improved upon.* __ Home
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