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Critical Nonsense

How do we know if we're doing the right thing for potentially the wrong reasons?

This week, Joey and Jess talk about The Anxious Generation, social media, polio, experimentation, modes, rodents, and sesame paste. They don’t talk about Yusei Kikuchi.

references

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
• Hank Green on X
• How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
• The Ezra Klein Show podcast: On Children, Meaning, Media and Psychedelics
• The New Yorker How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention
• Corrections Department: Colloid