Steve Sailer on Malcolm Gladwell:

Third, what you can't systematically predict based on the past is The Next Big Thing. Audiences eventually get bored with what they liked in the past, but you can't tell when. And what you definitely can't tell from your database is what they'll start liking in the future.

How to be better at almost anything.

"Elegance is the simplicity found on the far side of complexity." (click on the pdf link here)

Laughter and cheering trigger mirror neurons.

Christopher Hitchens wonders why men are funnier than women.

A metaphor explaining how cognitive bias works.