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Why nature makes us happy

28 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments On_my_mind

Nature provides a sense of well-being through various factors: the pleasant fragrance of wild flowers and the calming sounds of leaves rustling in the wind. However, there's more to it than just these sensory experiences. In today's chaotic and str...

Lysistrata in South Korea

17 Mar 2023 12 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

James Burnham attributed the self-annihilation of the West to its adoption of Liberalism. He would not say it was the cause of the West’s contractions, but rather that it was the worldview preventing it from recognizing that it was contracting. Liber...

Nurture Qua Nature

3 Mar 2023 10 minute read 1 comment MatTehCat

Over the past week, I’ve opined on school choice and how culture is shaped by the quality of people shaping it. At their core, these kinds of discussions lead to a nature-nurture debate. For most people, it seems as if the skew is 50-50, i.e., 50% nu...

School Choice: At the Buffet Without an Appetite

1 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Over the past year, much has been said about the need for school choice. A significant portion of this conversation emanates from the fact that test scores fell precipitously as a result of school closures during the COVID-19 shutdowns and online lea...

Art Imitates Life Imitates Art.

27 Feb 2023 14 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat

  A few months back, I wrote an extremely lengthy paper, almost a small book, on the evolution and development of morality. It was the product of several months of personal research I’d done during the summer of 2022 and, while I do think it needs to...

Interesting video showing how plants breathe

23 Dec 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Bala

I recently read an interesting article describing how plants use their Stomata for breathing. There was also a video published on the Science X youtube channel showing this breathing process. Stomata open and close as the plants take in carbon dioxid...

This is what depression is made of! - The biological underpinnings of depression

8 Sep 2022 5 minute read 0 comments StopCodon

It is world suicide prevention week. And one of the major risk factors for suicide is depression. There I decided that as my first post on the platform I will share my article on depression.  The biological underpinnings of depressionSketched by me|...

The Battle of the Gods: Moral Conflict in America (Part 1)

8 Sep 2022 57 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Abstract:    In this paper, I explore the neuroscientific, evolutionary, developmental, and social roots of moral conflict in the United States. I begin by exploring how moral systems are inherently derived from intuitions, and their explanations are...

Fungi Friday - More Summer Fungi From Michigan, USA

2 Sep 2022 3 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

Happy Fungi Friday everyone! I'm back again with more fascinating fungi from western Michigan, USA. Today, I have a diverse collection of mushrooms, some edible, some poisonous, and plenty of others vibrant and ephemeral, posing on the forest floor w...

Blog Rebrand | Pursuit of Knowledge

27 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments jday1235

Hello there! I have not posted here in well over two years, but want to change that. My previous posts were solely about bees, yet I wanted to expand the scope to more topics. Posts about bees will still happen, but I also want to include my other in...