Goodies

All the little 'extras' that don't fit as posts unto themselves.

• About — a few notes about me, this website, etc.
• Archive — browse posts by year.
• Year-end 'meta' posts — wherein I recap the year. Here are the 2012, 2013, and 2014 recaps.
• Reading Pipeline — books I'm currently reading, books I've recently finished, books I've abandoned, etc. Updated about once a month. Also includes a list of my all-time favorites.
• Links — collection of high-quality links I think Melting Asphalt readers would enjoy.
• Some of the series I've published on this blog.

Pet topics

These are some ideas that continue to tickle my brain, but haven't worked their way into full-blown essays yet.

Curiosities

• Biological curiosities — natural selection, you sly dog!
• Cognitive curiosities (technically, should be a subset of biological curiosities)
• Cultural curiosities (ditto)
• Emotional confusion
• Crazes, fads, and manias

Non-human animals

• Animal cognition
• Animal rituals

Perspective-shifting

• Ostranenie
• Perspectives on consciousness
• Perspectives on the self
• Perspective inversions

Miscellaneous

• Patterns of coordination
• Human interaction anti-patterns AKA bad "ethical smells"
• The game of "Let's pretend we're not animals"
• The spirituality of science [quora.com]