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When I went to college for Electrical Engineering, they put all the engineers in an Engineering 101 course our freshman year. It was meant to give us a taste of what we’d be getting ourselves into. The goal, we were told, was to build a hovercraft that would navigate an...

I. I love dogs. I grew up in a two-dog household, and my future plans have always included at least one dog. When I pass a dog on the street, I often point and exclaim “Puppy!”, no matter how inappropriate it is for a grown man to do so, because...

I recently attended the rationalist conference, LessOnline. I wanted to document some of the experience, and found myself bifurcating my emotional reactions. The conference itself was wonderful, with great people, food, and venue, but there were pros and cons to going. Though the pros greatly outweigh the cons, both deserve...

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, itself a subset of Bilateral Stimulation Therapy. Bilateral Stimulation Therapy is not well understood, but the gist is that activating both brain hemispheres (hence bilateral) helps people process traumatic memories. It’s increasingly being used in treating PTSD, but you don’t have to...

Zvi Mowshowitz is an influential figure in the Rationalist community. I won’t go into the details, but if you haven’t heard of him or his writing, look him up. Some of my favorite pieces of his are Slack, More Dakka, and On Car Seats As Contraception. Throughout his posts, he...

Sniff-click. Sniff-click. One shot in each nostril, and here…we…go. A while ago, I started Ketamine therapy for depression. I didn’t finish - I changed jobs, which switched insurances, which messed everything up - but I was doing it for two and half weeks (five doses) before then, and had good...

There are two nuclear options for treating depression: Ketamine and TMS; This post is about the latter. TMS stands for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Basically, it fixes depression via magnets, which is about the second or third most magical things that magnets can do. I don’t know a whole lot about...