Library

Everything in one place. Articles argue from the research; papers are longer original work; research documents are kept whole; concepts and open problems are what the research turned up.

All187 Writing38 Research96 Ideas79 Key figures281 Investigations34

All topics187 McLuhan & media theory42 Attribution & credit26 Health & self-care15 Video & design14 Attention & feeds14 AI-directed development13 Prices & markets12 ADHD & attention11 Canadian economy & policy11 Housing8 Drugs & public health7 Economics5 Canadian media3 Habits & maintenance3 Polling1 Canadian politics & power1 Fewer topics

SortNewest A–Z Shortest read Most evidence Names coined

187 itemsAdded

51Will an AI agent ever weigh a signed receipt?I found no agent that treats a user-held code or signed receipt as a ranking or attribution input.Open problemAttribution & creditOpen9 Oct

52Do creators want a portable record of their recommendations?This pass found no survey asking creators whether they want a portable record of their endorsements, and no product that sells portability as a paid add-on.Open problemAttribution & creditOpen9 Oct

53Does offering “keep it for later” at the click raise revenue?Nobody has published a test of the specific claim, that offering "keep it" at the click raises credited revenue over 60–90 days.Open problemAttribution & creditOpen9 Oct

54What does an extra email step cost in clicks?No study found measures what an optional email step costs in click-through to an affiliate merchant.Open problemAttribution & creditOpen9 Oct

55Does on-site AI chat actually lift sales?I found no independent controlled experiment of on-site AI chat lift this pass.Open problemAI-directed developmentOpen9 Oct

56Can sound carry the story in a data documentary?Nobody has shipped a linear documentary that treats sonification as a first-class, frame-synced narrative device (as opposed to accessibility add-on or standalone art).Open problemVideo & designOpen9 Oct

57Do the extras in collagen supplements add anything?No RCT compares collagen + cofactors vs collagen alone.Open problemHealth & self-careOpen9 Oct

58Is RealPage-style rent software being used in Canada?I found no equivalent enforcement action — a genuine open questionOpen problemPrices & marketsOpen9 Oct

59How common is algorithmic price collusion in real markets?Calvano et al. is robust experimentally; real-world prevalence and detectability remain open.Open problemPrices & marketsOpen9 Oct

60KrasisThe synthesis of the series. McLuhan said every medium changes the ratio among our senses; the paper series tests that literally, from ADHD and typing to drugs and addiction, and find one configuration that media, drugs and illness all re-temper.PaperMcLuhan & media theory9 references · 12 min5 Oct

61ExocrasisThe computing environment, not the screen, is the medium: keyboard, memory, search and network move part of the configuration of the senses and of memory outside the body.PaperMcLuhan & media theory25 references · 16 min5 Oct

62HeterocrasisADHD as a different starting balance of the senses. The strongest difference is in overall gain; the body and inner speech are mixed; binding is not looser.PaperMcLuhan & media theory31 references · 16 min5 Oct

63PharmakrasisEach class of drug sets its own balance of the senses — and the evidence for that is better than for any medium. When a drug meets a medium, as music does in psychedelic therapy, the two make a third thing.PaperMcLuhan & media theory20 references · 18 min5 Oct

64NarcocrasisIn dependence, what goes unseen is not the drug but the shifted baseline: the allostatic state is the medium, the drug its content. Two routes back — one turns the gain down, one makes the ground visible.PaperMcLuhan & media theory40 references · 28 min5 Oct

65NarcocrasisIn drug dependence, the part a person stops noticing is not the drug but their own shifted baseline: flatter pleasures, a restless body, a raised stress tone. The drug feels like the fix; the changed baseline feels like how the world is.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

66AnacrasisRecovery as re-setting that baseline, not only removing the drug. The ancient Greek word anakrasis meant mixing with others, and the evidence points the same way: what helps the reset last is other people.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

67PharmakrasisEvery class of drug sets its own characteristic balance of the senses: cannabis speeds felt time, ketamine loosens the sense of owning a body, LSD deepens the response to music. A drug, on this view, is a technology of the senses, like a medium but more direct.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

68HeterocrasisPeople start from different balances of the senses before any medium touches them. ADHD may be one such starting point, most clearly in how loudly the brain turns all its signals up or down.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

69ExocrasisPart of how we sense and remember now lives outside the body, in keyboards, search, saved files and the network. The computing environment holds some of the balance the brain used to hold.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

70Fixed times versus flexible routines in exercise habits: what the paid-to-exercise trials foundPaid to exercise at a set time, people did less than those paid to exercise whenever they liked — and quit faster afterwards. What helps is a fixed start and an open workout.ArticleHabits & maintenance38 quotes · 1 source · 8 min4 Oct

71TypomoraMcLuhan said electric media would bring back the voice. For fifty years computers made us type instead. The delay was the keyboard, not a mistake in the theory — and it is ending.PaperMcLuhan & media theory39 references · 22 min4 Oct

72Sensory syncrasisMcLuhan meant his "sense ratios" literally. The brain science he reached for failed; predictive processing now gives the idea a mechanism, a name and five tests.PaperMcLuhan & media theory38 references · 20 min4 Oct

73Self-extinguishing maintenance: treatments that stop because they are working, and the relapse that followsSome problems only stay fixed while you keep treating them — a gap between two teeth, toes pressed too tight. The treatment works, the problem vanishes, it looks cured, you stop, and it comes back. This research named the cycle and the mistake behind it.ArticleHabits & maintenance37 quotes · 1 source · 10 min4 Oct

74Typomora: Neuroscience, Naming and Framing for Paper 3The neuroscience: Literacy measurably changes the brain. Dehaene et al. (2010, Science) found increased responses to letters in the visual word form area (VWFA), a small displacement of face responses, and enhanced…ResearchResearch passMcLuhan & media theory7 claims · 20+ sources4 Oct

75The Computing Environment and Sensory Syncrasis: Evidence Review for Paper 2What the environment tunes toward: an outward-facing, fast-switching, offloaded mode. Readers calibrate less carefully and process expository text more shallowly on screens (g ≈ −0.21). Memory shifts toward external stores…ResearchEvidence reviewMcLuhan & media theory7 verdicts · 50+ sources4 Oct

76Sensory Syncrasis Evidence Base: Screens (Paper A) and ADHD (Paper B)Paper A (Screens): Change is real but mostly domain-specific and often enhancing. Action video games causally improve perceptual and attentional skills (Bediou et al. 2018: g = 0.34 in intervention studies, g = 0.55…ResearchEvidence reviewMcLuhan & media theory12 verdicts · 60+ sources4 Oct

77The Precision Ratio, Revisited: Why "Ratio" Is Half Right, and What to Call the WholeResearchNaming studyMcLuhan & media theory5 dimensions · 30+ sources4 Oct

78The Medium Becomes the Ground: McLuhan and the Allostatic Model of Addiction (rebuilt)Work linking McLuhan to drugs and addiction exists only at the level of discourse and metaphor. The nearest example is Hartogsohn & Vudka (2023, Transcultural Psychiatry), which is about smartphone "addiction" and McLuhan's…ResearchResearch passMcLuhan & media theory7 coinages · 30+ sources4 Oct

79Sensory syncrasisThe whole configuration of how the brain blends its senses: how much it trusts each one, how loud it turns them all, whether it fuses or separates them, the balance between body and world, and how long a setting lasts. From the Greek root of idiosyncrasy.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct

80TypomoraThe typed delay in McLuhan's predicted return to voice: fifty years in which the keyboard, not the medium, kept networked communication typographic. Typos, type, and mora, delay — also the unit of spoken time.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct

81EpanaphonyThe return of voice as the way we put language into machines — dictation, voice notes, talking to AI — that closes the typomora. Oral in production, typographic in storage.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct

82Does talking to an AI change how you think?No peer-reviewed study tests how voice conversation with an AI affects memory, composition or thinking. The one widely cited study of AI and thinking was typed, and is an unreviewed preprint.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

83Does typing weaken speaking?No study shows that heavy typing degrades speech production, or that heavy speaking improves typed composition. Whether practice in one carries over to the other is untested.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

84Does dictation train speech?No peer-reviewed study shows that dictation or speech-to-text improves unaided spoken fluency or confidence. Speech-recognition feedback does improve pronunciation, which makes it a testable idea.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

85Do screens shift the balance of the senses?Nobody has measured whether what children watch or play changes which sense dominates when sight and sound compete — the closest measurable form of McLuhan's sense ratio.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

86Inner speech in ADHDNo study had looked specifically at inner speech in ADHD as of a 2015 review, and no study has tested whether naming a feeling calms it less in ADHD.Open problemADHD & attentionOpen4 Oct

87The Medium Becomes the Ground: Foundation Research on Sense Ratios, Precision, Interoception, Allostasis and AddictionHistoriography: McLuhan stated in physiological terms that media "alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance," funded and ran media-comparison experiments in the 1950s, and in…ResearchMcLuhan & media theory0 figures · 11 sources4 Oct

88Personalised pricing software and the return of haggling, run from the seller's sideFrom the middle of the nineteenth century everyone paid the number on the tag. Pricing software is bringing the bazaar back — except this time the seller reads you, and you see nothing.ArticlePrices & markets48 quotes · 9 min3 Oct

89The price as instructionA price computed for one buyer from their data, rather than posted for everyone — the same number, carrying the seller's model of you instead of the market's signal. Extends Gardiner Means's “administered prices” (1930s) from the boardroom to the shopper.ConceptPrices & marketsNo prior use found3 Oct

90What influenced the AI's purchase?No AI company reports which pages or sources shaped what its shopping assistant bought, in a form anyone else can check. Until one does, nobody outside it can measure an ad's effect on an AI buyer.Open problemAttribution & creditOpen3 Oct

91Does the same basket cost more on your phone?Nobody has measured whether online prices in Canada change with your location, device or history. The US has a federal study; Canada has little enforcement and almost no documentation.Open problemPrices & marketsOpen3 Oct

92The infinite-scroll trial nobody ranNo randomised trial compares infinite scroll with pagination on time spent or wellbeing. One review of the evidence says it looked and found none.Open problemAttention & feedsOpen3 Oct

93Rework from unchecked hunchesNo study measures how much rework comes from unverified human intuitions handed to coding agents — the link the record's first article leans on.Open problemAI-directed developmentOpen3 Oct

94Books kept on the publisher's sideNo product lets a publisher set the influence it had against the credit it was paid. Merchant tools suggest codes and links catch 15–30% of conversions, but that data belongs to brands.Open problemAttribution & creditOpen3 Oct

95A referral that survives a remixOf eleven products checked, only Framer documents a referral parameter that carries through a remix, duplicate or template link. Everywhere else the credit is lost at the copy.Open problemAttribution & creditOpen3 Oct

96Timing antivirals to the body clockClock genes change how HSV enters cells in the lab. Whether dosing antivirals by circadian phase helps people has not been tested.Open problemHealth & self-careOpen3 Oct

97A tax on money that sits stillNo one has seriously built a Pigouvian tax on hoarded, immobile capital. The closest precedent is demurrage — a fee for holding currency.Open problemEconomicsOpen3 Oct

98Who will count an AI assistant's influence: advertising attribution after the agentEvery shift in how advertising is paid for happened when a new party could count a new event. The agent that now does the buying can count the one that matters — and reports it to no one.ArticleAttribution & credit50 quotes · 11 min2 Oct

99The counter-irritant spiral: McLuhan, Hans Selye, and relief that deepens the need for reliefIn 1964 McLuhan, reading the stress researcher Hans Selye, described relief that deepens the need for relief "like a drug habit." What users stop noticing is not the drug but their own shifted baseline.ArticleMcLuhan & media theory24 quotes · 8 min1 Oct

100Uber for Your Own To-Do List: Feasibility and Prior-Art Review of a Paid, AI-Dispatched Task QueuePrior art: Nobody has built "Uber for your own tasks". The nearby products are commitment-stake apps (Beeminder, stickK, Forfeit), pay-for-health apps (Sweatcoin, Evidation), RPG and gamified task managers (Habitica, Finch)…ResearchFeasibility reviewADHD & attention52 figures · 13 sources1 Oct