Stories by Tomte

Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist (2010)

Moscow’s Metro Dogs (2013)

Leslie Odom Jr. Teaches You Philly Slang (2021)

Michael Phelps Supersizes Every Meal (2008)

CrossFit: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly (2013)

Bodybuilding and Nation-Building (2012)

My tier list of interesting YouTube channels (2020)

Effective Altruism Has a Novelty Problem

Designing for Long-Form Articles

Graphene as the philosopher’s stone: turning waste into gold

Interview: Julia Galef (2021)

Strength Training for Non-Athletes

Thinking as Computation (2011) [pdf]

The World’s Greatest Card Trick Can’t Be Taught (2021)

The Authoritarians (2006)

IKEA’s “Cook This Page” Posters (2017)

How to make perfect porridge (2010)

A ChromeOS remote memory corruption vulnerability

The environmental impact of the dye in blue jeans

Fifth-century child’s skeleton shows evidence of “vampire burial” (2018)

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