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This Week's Dispatch - The Meltonian

THE MELTONIAN WEEKLY THIS WEEK'S DISPATCH Issue · Week of May 22–29, 2026 A heavy week on the publication side — seven new pieces out across Substack, Medium, and KDP — and more additions to the Boat Yoga line over on Etsy. The connective thread, if there is one, is the brain again: what an LLM does to the EEG when a student leans on it, what a stroke teaches us about the architecture of mental imagery, why sleep gets harder past sixty, and the new ADHD work suggesting that forty years of the...

6 days ago • 5 min read

THE MELTONIAN WEEKLY THIS WEEK'S DISPATCH Issue · Week of May 15–22, 2026 A heavy week on the publication side — six new pieces out across Substack, Medium, and KDP — and a new line landing in the Etsy shop that's been in the sketchbook for a while. The connective thread, if there is one, runs through the cognitive substrate again: what a phone in the pocket does to working memory, what a late ADHD diagnosis means for executive function, what an algorithm trained on outrage does to a public's...

13 days ago • 4 min read

THE MELTONIAN WEEKLY THIS WEEK'S DISPATCH Issue · Week of May 8–14, 2026 Five new pieces went out this week across Substack, Medium, and KDP, plus a couple of quiet moves in the shop. The thread running through most of them — if there is one — is the long arc between what happens to a brain and what shows up in a life decades later: lead in childhood, a missed diagnosis at twenty, the strange new fact that reasoning models hallucinate more than the simpler ones they replaced. Below: what's...

21 days ago • 3 min read