The biggest thing since covid: My new mortality book!

Maybe I’ll be accused of exaggeration or self-aggrandizement, but The Illustrated US Mortality Guide: An objective and eye-opening overview of deaths in the United States from 1968—2023: Just the numbers, is my baby, so I think I’m entitled to be a little delusional about it, especially so soon after its birth. This book baby has been in the making for more than a year, and finally, after seemingly endless additions, subtractions, modifications, and technical difficulties, it is up on Amazon, ready to be adored by all—who will hopefully be smitten enough to buy a copy, in Kindle or paperback—or even both, if they are particularly smitten. This unique book objectively presents the official US mortality data, totally free of opinions or conclusions, and makes it accessible for everyone.

Allan Weisbecker dies; I meet his doppelganger in Chaco Canyon

Do you think the dead ever visit the living, especially soon after they die--maybe in a dream, or in the form of an animal or found object; or maybe, like the story I’m about to tell you here, in a parable played out by the living?

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Unconventional lessons from academia: research integrity and porn; laws gone wrong; and assumptions substituting for science

This post is about a few unconventional lessons that have stuck with me from graduate school, where I was studying psychology and law at the University of Nebraska in the early 1990s.

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