Stupidogenic Blood

Are We Living In A Stupidogenic Society?

Daisy Christodoulou | No More Marking | 24th August 2025

“Cognitive offload” is the term for when technology spares us mental effort. “It is a mixed blessing. It will generally let you achieve your immediate goal more efficiently and reliably than otherwise. Frequently offloading cognitive work to devices may cause certain “mental muscles” to atrophy. The cost of physical machines is human obesity; the cost of intelligent machines is human stupidity” (2,500 words)

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Blood Red Rosalia

Catherine Merridale | Engelsberg Ideas | 16th September 2025

Profile of Rosalia Zemlyachka, the Bolshevik revolutionary who proved that “gender was no bar to common sadism”. While in Crimea in 1920, her crew shot as many as 96,000 people in four months. Concerned about bullets being wasted, she came up with a solution which “disgusted even some Bolsheviks” — tie unarmed people up on makeshift barges or planks and drown them wholesale in the Black Sea (2,000 words)