In 1921, Leo Frobenius reported the creation myth of a Bassari tribe in Northern Togo:

This post steps back from grand claims and asks readers to make a few of their own. One of the most addicting parts of personality research is trying to understand the unifying theme of a factor when …

Homo Sapiens have been around for about 200,000 years but didn’t do much for the first 185,000 or so. At the end of the Ice Age, there was a “revolution of symbols,” as archeologist Jacques Cauvin cal…

My work has become dangerously close to a Prompt Engineer1. This is fine by me, as it combines my love of writing, psychometrics, and NLP. Here are some of the most overpowered prompting techniques:

“Language may well have arisen as a mysterious power possessed largely by women—women who spent much more of their waking time together—and, usually, talking—than did men, women who in all societies a…

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Psychology, and the Word was Psychology” ~New Vector Translation

is a researcher and writer blogging about the science and politics of mental health at . In this episode, he joins me in dissecting the psychological and religious frameworks of Jordan Peterson, a fig…

Chicks still wet from hatching, covered in bits of shell that have been their only home, will run for cover at the sight of a hawk but not a gull, heron, or pigeon. Humans are not foreigners to animal…

The blog now has over 100,000 words of content which I want to make easier for newcomers to navigate. Part of that is producing a FAQ answering questions about the timeline, the extent to which a sing…

Dear readers, this is a check-in to get a sense of what you’d like to see more of, as well as an update about my plans for this blog. So please comment to let me know what you find compelling and woul…