Articles by barry-cotter
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Is a Master's in Education Worthwhile? No (the74million.org)

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Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? (newyorker.com)

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We Are Repaganizing (firstthings.com)

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The Great Downzoning (worksinprogress.co)

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The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market (ryanpuzycki.com)

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Benedict Anderson: Humane Nationalist (unherd.com)

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Policy Concerns in an Era of Low Fertility: Comparison and Intensive Parenting [pdf] (brookings.edu)

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Why Education Can Never Be Fun (nomoremarking.com)

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Those Who Walk Away from Hogwarts (fiddlersgreene.substack.com)

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Doughnut Economics (noahpinion.blog)

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If You Meet the Singaporean on the Road (substack.com)

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Sources Say Bay Area House Party (astralcodexten.com)

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The End of Credentialism (cremieux.xyz)

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Why the NIH Should Spend Billions to Give Me Futuristic Real Fake Tits (parakeet.substack.com)

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Why Is Taiwan the Poorest Developed Economy? (twitter.com/jukanlosreve)

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The Bluesky-Ization of the American Left (noahpinion.blog)

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Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk (scholars-stage.org)

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Defining Deviancy Up (scottsumner.substack.com)

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How to Save DC's Metro (statecraft.pub)

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Why Have Books Disappeared from Many ELA Curricula? (curriculuminsightproject.substack.com)

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I do nothing and it is breaking me (reddit.com)

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Henry Kissinger Undergraduate Thesis (dicklesworthstone.github.io)

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We Too, Are Elves (edrith.co.uk)

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In Defence of Online Anonymity (thecritic.co.uk)

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Austerity for Fertility (betonit.ai)

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Predictable Property Crime Is a Policy Failure (twitter.com/kelseytuoc)

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My Father's Instant Mashed Potatoes (astralcodexten.com)

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Unyoke the Sciences from the Humanities (thedispatch.com)

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Some Self-Paced Kids Move Fast (oaklandlearn.org)

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Algebra Gatekeepers: Schools deny advanced math to the highest-scoring students (educationprogress.org)

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The Only Birthrate Strategy That Worked, & the Need for Strong Pronatalism (twitter.com/morebirths)

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Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back (marginallycompelling.com)

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Speedrun (educationprogress.org)

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The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018) (bbc.com)

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Get Out of School as Fast as You Can (educationprogress.org)

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The Demographic Future of Humanity: Facts and Consequences [pdf] (upenn.edu)

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People Get Good at Their Jobs Through Practice (betonit.ai)

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"Stand and Deliver" Revisited (reason.com)

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College English Majors Can't Read (kittenbeloved.substack.com)

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Why Did DeepMind Solve Protein Folding? (jakefeala.substack.com)

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Ships Escaped the Great Stagnation (worksinprogress.news)

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The Joy Is Not Optional (substack.com)

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Notes Towards a Sex-Realist Feminism (thingofthings.substack.com)

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Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s – despite 98% tax rates (taxpolicy.org.uk)

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From Oversight to Overkill (2023) (astralcodexten.com)

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China Chokes on High-Density Sprawl (cnu.org)

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[flagged] The Female Gaze (maryharrington.co.uk)

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Testosterone gave me my life back (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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What's Wrong with the "What's Wrong with Men" Discourse (conorfitzgerald.com)

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The Merits of Unified Land Ownership (worksinprogress.news)

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Things I Learned from 5k Years in an Alternate Universe (2013) (slatestarcodex.com)

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"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring (gwern.net)

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"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring

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What Women Want (katrosenfield.substack.com)

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Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject (lesswrong.com)

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The Future of Education (justinmath.com)

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My School Experimented with 'Education Equity.' It Failed (thefp.com)

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Conquest and Liberation of Academia (overcomingbias.com)

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50 years of rising educational attainment, no gain in actual skills (maximum-progress.com)

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No One Rebuilt Old OkCupid (musingsandroughdrafts.com)

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Progressives should worry more about their favorite scientific findings (paulbloom.net)

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Modern Fantasy is RPG material, not myth making (twitter.com/scholars_stage)

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Harvard Students Are Better Than You (tracingwoodgrains.com)

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[flagged] What climate activists won't tell you about protecting the planet (zionlights.substack.com)

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Impact of PhD Studies on Mental Health–A Longitudinal Population Study (hhs.se)

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Fears of a Setting Sun (thepsmiths.com)

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The Netherlands' Rent Control Disaster (reason.com)

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Where Is My Self-Driving Car? (greaterlondon.co)

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The Guide to get an EB-1A (debarghyadas.com)

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Income Does Not Affect Health: Evidence from a UBI Randomised Controlled Trial [pdf] (umich.edu)

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The Poor You Will Have with You Always, Even with UBI (twitter.com/esyudkowsky)

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Tolkien Towers Above the Genre Be Created, Original, Aspiring, Different (strangehorizons.com)

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The Change in Vibes – Why Did They Happen? (marginalrevolution.com)

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There Is Not That Much Wealth in the World (noahpinion.blog)

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[flagged] I'm terrified of old people (guzey.com)

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Scientific American falsely links homeschooling to abuse (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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The Myth of the Nordic Rehabilitative Paradise (inquisitivebird.substack.com)

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What on Earth Was Macron Thinking? (twitter.com/phl43)

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Misinformation poses a smaller threat to democracy than you might think (conspicuouscognition.com)

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'Vice' Went from a $6B Media Empire to Bankruptcy (thefp.com)

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The Economics of Working 80 Hours or More a Week (thediff.co)

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In Praise of Pastiche (worksinprogress.co)

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Gender Disappointment in 2024 Is Almost Always About Boys (cartoonshateher.com)

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Europe's Technological Economic and Cultural Relative Decline (twitter.com/rnaudbertrand)

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The long, ever faster decline of machining skills in the USA (twitter.com/tuckergoodrich)

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Why is simple decoration so rare in recent work? (benlandautaylor.com)

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How the New Grad Apocalypse Is Going to Shake Out (twitter.com/kchoudhu)

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Misunderstanding the Fertility Crisis (quillette.com)

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The Peer Review System Is Giving Up the Ghost (philosopherscocoon.typepad.com)

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Computers Are Overrated (benlandautaylor.com)

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Jo Boaler Is Not Unusually Bad for an Education Researcher: She's Usually Bad (hechingerreport.org)

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Why do we have such terrible evidence on homework effectiveness? (2022) (astralcodexten.com)

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Markets in Fact-Checking (worksinprogress.co)

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AWOL from Academics (harvardmagazine.com)

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Who Is Portugal For? (palladiummag.com)

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What is it like to be a cat (tail)? (gwern.net)

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Aging Is No Blessing (palladiummag.com)

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Israel Turned Homeowners into YIMBYs (worksinprogress.co)

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Education Isn't What It Used to Be (cremieux.xyz)

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Narratives, Damned Lies and Statistics (quillette.com)