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James Horton, Ph.D

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Things You Learn from Skimming 1350 Academic Journal Articles

Thoughts on the usefulness of wastefulness

5d ago

Things You Learn from Skimming 1350 Academic Journal Articles

5d ago

What Can We Learn About Community From ‘The Wheel of Time’?

How to reclaim the social connectedness of Two Rivers

May 7

What Can We Learn About Community From ‘The Wheel of Time’?

May 7

When did McDonald’s Get So Pricey?

Is cheap fast food a long gone dream?

Apr 28

When did McDonald’s Get So Pricey?

Apr 28

What Can We Learn About Altruism from Reruns of ‘Friends’?

Phoebe Buffay and the Morality of Bee-Stings

Apr 23

What Can We Learn About Altruism from Reruns of ‘Friends’?

Apr 23

Can Elephants be Moral?

Charles Darwin and the Morality of Animals

Apr 14

Can Elephants be Moral?

Apr 14

A Sense of Place

What makes writing electric?

Apr 6

A Sense of Place

Apr 6

Published in
Age of Awareness

Social Science is Withering

In the past five years social science has dwindled. Physical science has not. Would it be so bad if social science died?

Mar 25

Social Science is Withering

Mar 25

State Natalism and The Long Fight

Or: Teddy Roosevelt Holding a Baby

Mar 19

State Natalism and The Long Fight

Mar 19

The Young Lady’s Guide to Spinsterhood

Some thoughts on singlehood in… the 1820's?

Jan 24

The Young Lady’s Guide to Spinsterhood

Jan 24

Published in
Exploration Phase

Review of a Single Exchange in the Trump-Harris Debate

Public discourse as hand-waving woo-woo

Sep 29, 2024

Review of a Single Exchange in the Trump-Harris Debate

Sep 29, 2024

James Horton, Ph.D

James Horton, Ph.D

1.91K followers

Traveler and academic psychologist. Alaskan, twice. I research wellbeing and relationships, and write about mind, tech, culture, nature, policy, and wellness.

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