Imagine being the NT government and having to deal with Aboriginal groups calling for tougher measures while half the internet calls for lighter measures to protect Aboriginal communities.

I AM SOBBING

A sad day: my longtime friend and colleague Roland Griffiths died last night after a long battle with cancer during which he showed the inspiring courage and wisdom that characterised his whole career, especially in resurrecting psychedelic research. A truly great scientist.

Katharine Hepburn’s childhood, in her own words. “Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one other family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight

In case it doesn’t make the mainstream media (Papua New Guinea hardly ever does), police in Port Moresby went on strike today and the city was immediately overrun and looted.

And so it continued, both day and night

A new preprint debunks a recent paper arguing that, in hunter-gatherer societies, women did almost as much hunting as men. My latest post on S*bstack. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/is-man-the-h…

RIP Frans de Waal improbable.com/2024/03/16/sad…

The most reasonable thing I’ve heard in a long time

Daniel Kahneman, who changed psychology and economics forever, dies at 90. Thanks for everything. We remember him in 10 great quotes:

The best sign of correctly drawing the line between complicated issues is hate from all sides, each for not being closer to theirs.

Even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities. Matthew Blackwell in 2018 quillette.com/2018/07/15/dev…

Me, in UnHerd, on the Outback alcohol situation and simplified conjectures:

The irony is that in trying to assassinate Donald Trump, Crooks inadvertently provided Trump with an opportunity to display the very qualities that have already made him a cult icon. Trump’s immediate reaction—standing up and raising his fist to the crowd despite the clear and

Scientifically accurate.

The Epstein thing is rapidly becoming #MeToo 2.0. Some people have been exposed for participating in absolute evil. One or two examples will be made but most of them seem on course to get away with it. And at the same time, a large number of people who haven't done anything