Daniel Kelly

Pairs well with "Somebody Should Do Something"

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Breakthrough Study Shows Sound Stimulation May Help Clear Alzheimer’s Plaques Forty-Hz auditory stimulation increased amyloid clearance markers in aged primates and produced lasting effects, supporting its potential as a non-invasive Alzheimer’s therapy. Scientists at the Kunmi...

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What I Learned From My Annoyingly Long Correspondence With "Elena Ferrante" | Defector Earlier this month I received an email that, for a moment, made my heart skip. The email came from someone named Elena Ferrante, at “elenaferrante800@gmail.com,” and I feel no remorse leaking Elena’s ...

I wrote about my friend "Elena Ferrante" and what it was like to try to engage with a scammer
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

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Spatial Memories Ege Selin Islekel (Texas A&M University)

If a place that produced memories is altered, is the original memory of that place altered as well? Today at The Memory Palace, Ege Selin Islekel (Texas A&M) explores how traumatic memories attached to a place are influenced by changes to that place.
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This week in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue:

Interdisciplinarity Through Research Collaboration & Philosophy and Neuroscience Mentorship Program applications are due 2.28.26. Visit our website for more information.

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Papers I learned from (Part 8: Somebody should do something) - Reflective altruism Brownstein, Madva and Kelly examine the role of personal choices in systemic change.

On the Reflective Altruism blog 🙏

Effective altruists think a lot about systemic change...Somebody Should Do Something is an important trade book backed by decades of scholarly research related to systemic change. I think it is important to examine this book.

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Highlights from this mornings Coffee & CAIC where, due to a scheduling change, Dan Kelly and Brett Karlan held an impromptu debate about authenticity and multiplicity!

Papers I learned from (Part 8: Somebody should do something) - Reflective altruism Brownstein, Madva and Kelly examine the role of personal choices in systemic change.

New short essay out today with @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social on all kinds of ways to do good visibly. Thanks to @reflectivealt.bsky.social for the opportunity to share ideas with the EA crowd.

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‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

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What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem | Aeon Essays Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time

Do you feel like your screen time is impacting your attention span? The panic around screens and their impact on literacy is everywhere. But the university librarian Carlo Iacono argues the problem isn’t the screen but the environment – which can be designed better

This Friday (10-11:30am, BRNG 7119) Sabine Brunswicker (Purdue, Polytechnic) will be joining CAIC to discuss QuanToM— abstract below!

Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Finally Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted

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A New Function for Episodic Memory? Muhammad Ali Khalidi (Graduate Center, City University of New York)

What is the function of episodic memory? Today at The Memory Palace, Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY) shares ideas on the functions of episodic memory, and how this capacity might link individual cognition and joint agency.

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Episodic memory as a source of the forms of sociality unique to humans? Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY) is at the Palace today, exploring this account of episodic memory’s function. Check it out!
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Three days left to submit your abstracts! Join us for the Midwest Junto at Purdue in April!

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ITRC project benefits for early career researchers: 📄 Results in 2 publications (academic and public-facing), 🎓 training on translating work for a popular audience, 💰 project funding, 💼SPAN2027 conference presentation, 🤝 hands on interdisciplinary research + more! 🏅 @danafoundation.bsky.social 🧠

The Absurd, Unsolved Hunt to Find a Definitive Portrait of Shakespeare (Published 2023)

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In what is arguably the World's Best News, it looks like India is going to spend much less time in the "fossil fuel detour" than the US or China. It is moving much more directly to clean electrification.
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Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

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Written essay version

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Compost modernity! Podcast Episode · Aeon Magazine · 02/10/2026 · 23m

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SXSW 2026 Schedule Browse events, build your schedule, and get personalized recommendations for the 2026 SXSW Conference & Festivals from March 12–18, 2026 in Austin, TX.

Sorry to all the famous musicians whose ticket sales we crush

"How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change: A Conversation with the authors of Somebody Should Do Something"

Mar 13, 2026
4:00pm – 5:00pm CT
Hilton Austin Downtown - Room 410

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submission due date is coming up soon!