Sometimes I'll post some paper showing a good design applied to good data, where the causal identification is excellent and theoretically sound and someone still posts "Correlation not causation"

Struggle and the fear of death turn people to religion. Among men who received a draft letter calling them to fight in the Vietnam War, their gravestones were vastly more likely to contain religious imagery—crosses, the Magen David, etc.

Religion did not revive after the fall of Communism. Simply getting rid of Communism was evidently not enough to restore religiosity.

Vatican II shattered the view that the Church was an immovable, truth-holding institution. It led to a global decline in monastic orders, and now we finally have evidence on its impacts on the masses. It greatly reduced religious service attendance: -4pp per decade, 1965-2015!

Polymarket has acquired QCEX, a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, for $112 million. This paves the way for us to welcome American traders again. I've waited a long time to say this: Polymarket is coming home 🇺🇸🦅

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)

No one's stomach gets upset in a Waymo. Self-driving cars drive well, so they're going to make people more comfortable when they arrive places.

Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’

It's been funny to watch the Coldplay CEO scandal develop, but the punishment - the sheer scale of being ritually humiliated by the entire internet - doesn't fit the crime.

This happens all the time on here. It’s uncanny. Post a study with no causal identification, but include a scatterplot. Sit back and watch the Dunning Kruger dudes rush in to say the problem is the low R^2 “haha points far from line, points not arranged in line, i am very smart”