Links

Politics/religion:

• ⁠“How Interest Rates Were Set, 2500 BC–1000 AD”

• “How Successful Was Christianity?”

• “How is the biomarker ID aid plan going in India?”⁠

• ⁠“The Chaos Company: Wherever governments can’t—or won’t—maintain order, from oil fields in Africa to airports in Britain and nuclear facilities in America, the London-based ‘global security’ behemoth G4S has been filling the void”⁠

• “Book Review: A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja, by Joost R. Hiltermann”

Statistics:

• ⁠“Laplace the Bayesianista and the Mass of Saturn”

• ⁠“Why do Phase III Trials of Promising Heart Failure Drugs Often Fail? The Contribution of ‘Regression to the Truth’”⁠, Krum & Tonkin2003

• “The Efficacy of Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment: Confirmation From Meta-Analysis”⁠, Lipsey & Wilson1993 (I love these meta-meta-analyses⁠, since they let you say things like ‘Published studies yield mean effects 0.14 SDs larger than unpublished studies.’ Isn’t that useful to know?)

Literature:

• “Sanderson’s First Law” of fantasy

• Ted Chiang:

  • ⁠“Understand”⁠

  • ⁠“72 Letters”⁠

  • ⁠“Hell is the Absence of God”⁠

  • ⁠“Story of Your Life”⁠ (interpretation⁠)

  • ⁠“Liking What You See: A Documentary”⁠

  • ⁠“The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”⁠

Medicine:

• ⁠“Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine”⁠, Bockermanet al2014

• ⁠Caloric restriction, evidence pyramid, and drug risks⁠

• “Meta-Regression Analyses, Meta-Analyses, and Trial Sequential Analyses of the Effects of Supplementation with Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A, and Vitamin E Singly or in Different Combinations on All-Cause Mortality: Do We Have Evidence for Lack of Harm?”⁠, Bjelakovicet al2013

Psychology:

• ⁠“The poor neglected gifted child: Precocious kids do seem to become high-achieving adults. Why that makes some educators worried about America’s future” (SMPY⁠)

• “The Overprotected Kid: A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution”⁠ (Playgrounds, risk, and childrearing.)

• ⁠Frederik Pohl & cryonics⁠

Science/technology:

• ⁠“Dorian Nakamoto has vehemently denied being Bitcoin’s creator. Did Newsweek act irresponsibly in pursuit of a scoop? Could they have known, prior to the denials, that Dorian wasn’t Satoshi?”

• ⁠“A Randomized Experimental Study of Censorship in China”⁠, Kinget al2014

• ⁠Tweets which are anagrams of each other⁠

• ⁠“A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names”⁠, Meiklejohnet al2013

Philosophy:

• ⁠“Searching For One-Sided Tradeoffs”⁠ (Optimality/equilibrium reasoning.)

• “SCP-988”⁠

Business:

• ⁠Econlolcats⁠

• ⁠“The True Story Of The Great Marijuana Crash Of2011”⁠

Misc:

• Have a nice day⁠

• ⁠Lapham’s Quarterly: “Death”⁠:

  • ⁠“Longing for His Son Furuhi”⁠ (Yamanoue no Okura mourns)

  • ⁠Gensen’s⁠ death poems⁠

  • ⁠“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”⁠

  • ⁠Heraclitus⁠

  • ⁠Montaigne, “To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die”⁠

  • ⁠“The Masque of the Red Death”⁠

  • ⁠“Gertrude Bell Survives a Plague”⁠

  • ⁠John Stuart Mill’s diary⁠

  • ⁠Macaulay letter on Wilberforce’s death⁠

  • ⁠Egyptian rites⁠

Books

Fiction:

• reread R. A. Lafferty’s⁠ Fourth Mansions⁠

• Harrison’s Light⁠ (⁠review⁠)

Nonfiction:

• Levenson’s Newton and the Counterfeiter (⁠review⁠)

Film/TV

Anime:

• Shin Sekai Yori⁠ (⁠review⁠)

• Attack on Titan⁠

• Kyousougiga⁠

Music

Touhou:

• ⁠“A Queen Of The Sixteenth Night”⁠ (Yuri Yuzriha; TOHO R&B HOUSE Party Vol.2 {C85}) [instrumental/electronic]

• ⁠“Hello Aliens”⁠ feat. emaru (アサヒ; デジハロ NEXUS {C84}) [electro pop]

• ⁠“Einsamkeit”⁠ feat. 綾倉 盟 (spctrm, Syrufit; Sensitive Moment {C76})

• ⁠“Ska or RED”⁠ (水橋ゆっきー; Brass Quartet {C80}) [brass]

• “気だるい図書館” (水橋ゆっきー; Brass Quartet {C80}) [brass]

• ⁠“銀河と恋色魔法”⁠ (水橋ゆっきー; Brass Quartet {C80}) [brass]

• ⁠“NEXUS WiNG”⁠ feat. peЯoco. (katsu; DiGiHalo NEXUS {C84}) [pop]

Vocaloid:

• “ウィリウィリ (Wiliwili)” (Rin; takamatt, East End Pandemonium) [trance]

• “girls’ afternoon appointments”⁠ (Miku? leggysalad; Amber {VM23}) [electronic]

• ⁠“Swim Through The Air”⁠ (Miku; leggysalad; Amber {VM23}) [electronic]

• ⁠“2AM Dreamy Wonderland (CY Short Mix)”⁠ (Miku; MJQ, CY) [Progressive House]

• ⁠“パンデミックの掃除”⁠ (Rin; note@L-tone; かがみね★ふぇすた 2013) [J-pop]

• ⁠“Bling Bling★Brighten Every Days”⁠ (SeeU; Team StarRoid; On You) [house]

• “Now Here” (SeeU; Team StarRoid, On You) [house]