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Today I learned that onions are a sulfur-rich food. You can experience this yourself if you caramelize down roughly seven onions and eat half the batch in one sitting. Try not to do this if you’re going to be around people with functioning noses.

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What’s the difference between poetry and prose? I’d say that with prose, one aims to constrain the set of possible meanings as tightly as possible to minimize misunderstanding. Poetry has the richness of possible meanings that direct experience has.

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Conspiracy theory: the Titanic didn’t sink because it was swapped with a replica of the Titanic from the future in order to hide evidence from the Philidelphia experiment

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Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.

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Are there good studies on the neurochemical basis of variation in succeptibility to numinous or spiritual experiences within normal (non-clinical non-drug-induced) ranges? (I.e., not temporal lobe epilepsy)

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Survivorship bias spicy take: if someone is successful enough to be notable for their success, they are rare enough that no lessons from their experience apply generally enough to make someone else successful beyond the 50% mark.

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