Links of the Week, vol. 4

The following are links to interesting content we’ve read recently. If you would like to recommend a piece to share with our readers (no paywalled content, please), please use the contact form on our About page.

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Olga Khazan | The Atlantic: We Expect Too Much From Our Romantic Partners. A new book explores how marriage has changed in recent years, and why that’s made staying married harder.

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Stuart Firestein | Nautilus: How Pseudoscientists Get Away With It. “They imitate the ways in which science works and make claims as if they were scientists because even they recognize the power of a scientific approach.”

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Zoe Chance | Psychology Today: How Congresswoman Katie Porter May Have Just Saved Your Life. Click-baity headline, but interesting discussion of Porter’s rhetorical techniques.

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Bertrand Russell | Nobel Lecture: What Desires Are Politically Important? A 1950 lecture that holds up in modern society.

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Francky Knapp | Messy Nessy Chic: From Frida to Shakespeare, the Amazing Things They Did whilst “Social Distancing.”

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Charles Louis Richter | Contingent Magazine: The Trouble with Triscuits… is that they’re delicious. We may never know where the name comes from, though.