Beauty and the Ballots
Explore how political preferences shape not only voting patterns but even perceptions of physical attractiveness in Beauty and the Ballots.
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Mortality Through the Ages
Small addendum to the previous post.
September Round-Up
New monthly feature
Survival of the Fittest
Analyzing survivorship curves helps to understand how different social structures—ranging from marriages to states—resist the risks of dissolution over time.
Boltzmann Brains in Psychohistory
Could Boltzmann Brains help understanding the creation of (some) human communities?
Roma Caput Mundi
A Roman emperor is just another cog in the Imperial machine.
Unabomber's Anti-Tech Revolution: A Critical Analysis (2/2)
Due to the inherent short-term focus and competition of self-propagating systems, technological society is inevitably headed towards collapse. Or is it not?