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Genomic prediction of cognitive traits in childhood and adolescence
Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals
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A Polygenic Score for Higher Educational Attainment is Associated With Larger Brains
The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex
The genetics of the mood disorder spectrum: genome-wide association analyses of over 185,000 cases and 439,000 controls
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/465FD502896ADB469A5AD89BE71C23C7/S0033291718002039a.pdf/genetic_influences_on_eight_psychiatric_disorders_based_on_family_data_of_4_408_646_full_and_halfsiblings_and_genetic_data_of_333_748_cases_and_controls.pdf
Machine Learning to Predict Osteoporotic Fracture Risk from Genotypes
Genome-Wide Association Study Results for Educational Attainment Aid in Identifying Genetic Heterogeneity of Schizophrenia
Common risk variants identified in autism spectrum disorder
Association Between Population Density and Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia
Genetic Evidence of Assortative Mating in Humans
Evidence for gene-environment correlation in child feeding: Links between common genetic variation for BMI in children and parental feeding practices
Analysis of the genetic basis of height in large Jewish nuclear families
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-018-0236-1
Common DNA Variants Accurately Rank an Individual of Extreme Height
BYU Genetic Researchers Solve a Giant Mystery: How Shawn Bradley Got to Be so Tall: Former Basketball pro Has Incredibly Unique Combination of Genetic Variants That Affect Height
Detecting past and ongoing natural selection among ethnically Tibetan women at high altitude in Nepal
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/35/2/473/4675175
Evolutionary History and Adaptation of a Human Pygmy Population of Flores Island, Indonesia
The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world
How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World: Ancient DNA from 209 Cats over 9,000 Years Tell the Story of Their Dispersal
Generation of Human Oogonia from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Vitro
The ‘Game-Changing’ Technique to Create Babies from Skin Cells Just Stepped Forward
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245
Large Genetic Change at Small Fitness Cost in Large Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Selected for Wind Tunnel Flight: Rethinking Fitness Surfaces
Population Size and Long-Term Selection
https://web.archive.org/web/20220301025405/http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zbook/NewVolume_2/pdf/Chapter26.pdf
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Phage-Assisted Continuous Evolution
Accurate Classification of BRCA1 Variants With Saturation Genome Editing
By Manipulating DNA, Researchers Are Trying to Create Microbes That, Once Ingested, Work to Treat a Rare Genetic Condition—A Milestone in Synthetic Biology
Genome-Edited Skin Epidermal Stem Cells Protect Mice from Cocaine-Seeking Behavior and Cocaine Overdose
Preliminary Results Suggest That Treatment for Rare Disease Is Safe, but Its Effectiveness Is Unclear.
Vast.ai
The prehistory of biology preprints: A forgotten experiment from the 1960s
‘copyright’ directory
https://www.the-scientist.com/replication-failures-highlight-biases-in-ecology-and-evolution-science-64475
The cumulative effect of reporting and citation biases on the apparent efficacy of treatments: the case of depression
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http://schmid-werren.ch/hanspeter/publications/2014elemath.pdf
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Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review: A Favorite Anecdote about the Origins of the Vibrator Is Probably a Myth
https://journalofpositivesexuality.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Failure-of-Academic-Quality-Control-Technology-of-Orgasm-Lieberman-Schatzberg.pdf
Testing the Ability of the Surprisingly Popular Method to Predict NFL Games
On Conspiracies
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/the-dangers-of-dna-testing.html
NIST Interlaboratory Studies Involving DNA Mixtures (MIX05 and MIX13): Variation Observed and Lessons Learned
Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction
Human Intelligence: Chapter 10, What Use Is Intelligence?
Dynamic Human Environmental Exposome Revealed by Longitudinal Personal Monitoring
We Are Bombarded by Thousands of Diverse Species and Chemicals: Stanford Scientists Have Measured the Human ‘Exposome’, or the Particulates, Chemicals and Microbes That Individually Swaddle Us All, in Unprecedented Detail
California Teenagers Could Sleep Later Under School Start Bill
The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web
Banner Ads Considered Harmful
Measuring Consumer Sensitivity to Audio Advertising: A Field Experiment on Pandora Internet Radio
SonarSnoop: Active Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks
Examining Wikipedia With a Broader Lens: Quantifying the Value of Wikipedia’s Relationships With Other Large-Scale Online Communities
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2003-pickard-lsd-trial-transcript-michaelbrianhobbs.pdf
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http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/SF-MasterList-141103-byauthor.htm
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470650240
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpebvLMQq0g
Clean Tears—Reverberations 3
Clean Tears—Reverberations 3—09 Reminiscence
Into the Blue
On the Shore of the Eden
El Ten Eleven—"You Are Enough"
Banker's Hill
We Don’t Have A Sail But We Have A Rudder
El Ten Eleven—"Reverie"
El Ten Eleven—"This Morning With Her, Having Coffee"