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April 2024

Best of: Keeping Ourselves in the Skinner Box
Looking beyond "what if phones but too much"
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
Best of: What a President on the Picket Line Really Means
We've come a long way since the 1920s.
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
Best of: Your 23andMe Really Doesn't Show You Much
It only takes one generation to change the answer to “where do you come from?”
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
Best of: AI is about to make mental health treatment a lot harder than it already is
How can a patient that struggles with reality get meaningful help from a machine that cannot experience reality at all?
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
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March 2024

Design and Behavior, Part 2
When you tell a social media platform how you feel, it will use this information to manipulate you (just like your toxic ex)
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
Design and Behavior, Part 1
People act differently on different social media platforms. Why?
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
"Banning TikTok" Is Not a Normal Political Problem
The movement to ban TikTok is bipartisan...but so is its opposition. What are the pros and cons of this increasingly rare dynamic?
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
Why "Daihatsu" Millennials Have to 'Fake It 'Til We Make It'
The sheer size of our demographic alone has made things tough for us...but now it might be our biggest advantage.
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J. Constantine Kourvelas
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