Replication Crisis and Unprecedented Lives

Experiments That Failed To Replicate

Marco Giancotti | Aether Mug | 21st August 2025

Compact list of the most infamous experiments debunked during psychology’s replication crisis in the 2010s. For now, these theories should be considered false: being bilingual has cognitive advantages; cleanliness makes people more morally lax; listening to Mozart temporarily makes you smarter; simply thinking about money makes you more selfish; people solve problems better under stress (1,300 words)

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Different From All Other Humans In History

Brian Klaas | Garden Of Forking Paths | 6th October 2025

Human lives today are utterly without precedent. Jet-lag, first identified in 1931, was made possible by a mode of travel far enough and fast enough to disrupt our circadian rhythms. 9,497 of the 9,500 prior generations of humans never experienced Earth as a Pale Blue Dot. Past humans would have been bewildered at the notion that children teach their parents how to use technology, and not the reverse (3,300 words)