A Chemical Mind | Nicholas Kircher | Substack

Sacrificing yourself to save your life

Can a unified theory of mind and body help us fight Alzheimer's?

Jan 9 • Nicholas Kircher

Can A Pill Change Your Morality?

Revealing the limits of "free will"

Dec 24, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Side-Quest: The Art of Information

How to hide in plain sight, or sound, or anything, really.

Dec 18, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Australian Terror

Digesting the attack at Bondi in the context of Gun Reforms

Dec 15, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Gods in a Machine

The future of neuro-integration

Nov 29, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

"Funny, interesting and filled with lots of stuff I never heard of before. I don't know how you manage to write so much quality material." - Subscriber

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Emotions of Mass Destruction

...and other horses of the apocalypse.

Oct 11, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Side-Quest: Voices from the Ethernet

My strange passive fascination with one of the oldest internet traditions of all: mental illness.

Aug 30, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Hate From Above & Below

How the Rwandan Genocide was made possible by words

Jul 17, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Emperors of Maladies: Augustus

How a kid with chronic illnesses and his best friend conquered Rome and shaped history

May 31, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Side-Quest: Thought Experiments with History

An essay on the complexities of morality and righteousness

Apr 16, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

The Shadow of Death: Part 1

A history of Chemical Weapons and "Doomsday"

Feb 12, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

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Side-Quest: The Art of Information

How to hide in plain sight, or sound, or anything, really.

Dec 18, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Side-Quest: Thought Experiments with History

An essay on the complexities of morality and righteousness

Apr 16, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

That one time I was like a phoenix

Death by a thousand job interviews

Mar 10, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Side-Quest: The Internet Is Wide-Open

The corporate responsibility for the crisis we're in today

Feb 23, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Deliver Us from Evil

Deliver Us from Evil: Part 3 - Cholera, Paranoia and Violence

Something in the Water? Conspiratorial Thinking in times of Health Crisis

Oct 29, 2024 • Nicholas Kircher

Deliver us from Evil: Part 2

The Long Shadow, "Technologic Totalitarianism", and the manipulation of the Mass Mind

Oct 22, 2024 • Nicholas Kircher

Deliver Us from Evil: Part 1

The Brutal Character Assassination of José M. R. Delgado, a pioneer ahead of his time.

Oct 15, 2024 • Nicholas Kircher

Hate From Above & Below

How the Rwandan Genocide was made possible by words

Published on A Chemical Mind • Nov 12, 2025

The Illness That Didn't Exist

How to make a medical textbook blush

Oct 27, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Is pro-natalism a political stance?

Addition, Subtraction, and the arithmetic of social policy.

Oct 20, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Emotions of Mass Destruction

...and other horses of the apocalypse.

Oct 11, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Calling All Hand-Writing Enthusiasts

Say hello to my new tool, made for writers, researchers and archivists!

Sep 26, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Side-Quest: Voices from the Ethernet

My strange passive fascination with one of the oldest internet traditions of all: mental illness.

Aug 30, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

The BlockedStack Phenomenon

Does finding out how many people have you blocked make you feel weird?

Aug 25, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

What is Covid-19 doing to the brain?

Alzheimers and SARS-CoV-2

Jul 25, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

Hate From Above & Below

How the Rwandan Genocide was made possible by words

Jul 17, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

[Substack Live] ZOMBIES!!

2 PhDs and a High School Dropout discuss biological plausibility and nuclear weapons

Jul 8, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher, Tommy Blanchard, and Gunnar

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Emperors of Maladies: Augustus

How a kid with chronic illnesses and his best friend conquered Rome and shaped history

May 31, 2025 • Nicholas Kircher

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