The modern formatting addiction in writing
https://dynomight.net/formatting/Pop quiz: Infer the axis of comparison
This is not as crazy as it sounds! In the US Civil War, 2/3 of soldiers died from disease rather than in battle. I could easily see myself predicting that better weapons would reduce deaths. (It's even conceivable that they did?)
Maybe there's a pattern here?
https://dynomight.net/pattern/Humans are unusual in that instead of laying around until hungry and then finding something to eat and then resuming lying around, they are obsessed with "doing stuff".
I tried to explain what's happening in that recent paper about the heritability of human lifespan:
https://dynomight.net/lifespan/no KYC for chocolate bars, for now