My Life Pouring Concrete
During my first four years of occasional construction work, from 2014 to 2018, almost 5,000 workers in this field died on the job in the United States.
Michael Humeniuk
· 10 min read
Nonfiction
A collection of 5 posts
Humanity's Great Urban Adventure Didn't Begin With Greece and Rome
Even in the darkest period of economic and political collapse, the chain of urban societies that stretched across the Old World was never broken.
Greg Woolf
· 8 min read
Scandinavia: Can The New "Parental Team" Replace Marriage?
A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.
Mikael Jalving
· 8 min read
Academic Journal Publishing is Headed for a Day of Reckoning
Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions.
Patrick Burns
· 6 min read
Cordelia Fine's "Testosterone Rex" — A Review
The point is rather that, potentially, even quite marked sex differences in the brain may have little consequence for behaviour.
Stuart Ritchie
· 6 min read