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  • A Taxonomy of Needs
  • A discourse on egoism
  • Against the Desire for Solipsism
  • Boy, Interrupted
  • Faith in the Absence of Certainty
  • I Learned to Lie by Listening to Clocks (villanelle)
  • In Defense of the Malfeasant
  • Letter to the Licentious
  • Marie Taglioni, the First to Float
  • On Being Wounded
  • On Learning Serious Things
  • On the Learning of Difficult Things
  • Reflections on Lifelong Study
  • Reply to Mephisto
  • That Lust Cannot Be Sated
  • That to Live is to Be Evil
  • The Cost of Perjury
  • The Waste Land, a Close Reading
  • Toward a Theory of Anime Critique
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  • Do Learning Styles Reflect Intelligence? Correlation vs. Causation
  • Do Learning Styles Reflect Intelligence? Correlation vs. Causation
  • Do Negative Emotions Outweigh Positive Ones?
  • Do People Solve Moral Dilemmas Differently at Different Times of Day?
  • Does Reading Online Train a Different Form of Memory Than Reading Books?
  • Dreams vs. Daydreams: Mechanisms and Vividness Enhancement
  • Is History Circular? Recurrence, Collapse, and Civilizational Archetypes
  • Is Life a Gift or a Curse? A Quantified Point of View
  • Nightmares and Exhaustion: Tiredness and the Roots of Fear
  • Predicting Real-World Achievement from Open-Source Intelligence
  • Quantifying the Perceived and Measured Effects of Nootropics on Cognitive Performance
  • Simulating Human Moral Judgment in LLMs
  • The Collapse Pattern: Sexual Deviancy and the Fall of Civilizations
  • What Sensory Inputs Most Affect Our Sense of Time?
  • What Study Methods Produce the Best Long-Term Retention by Discipline?
  • Which Kinds of Knowledge Decay the Fastest Without Use?
  • Which Problems Are Most Likely to Be Solved by Sleeping on It?
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  • On Socrates' Wisdom
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  • Global Nuclear Coverup
  • Great Books of the Western World
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  • K, Change The World
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  • MAL Badges
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  • On Adulthood
  • Orcas
  • Order of the Illuminati
  • Plan 9
  • Prayer
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  • Rabbit Holes
  • Select Essays of Kris Yotam
  • The Anime Year in Review
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  • The Cinematic Year in Review
  • The Cinephiles Companion to Film
  • The Discourses
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