Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Epidemiology, genetics and the ‘Gloomy Prospect’: embracing randomness in population health research and practice”⁠, Smith2011

Politics/religion:

• ⁠“American Hippopotamus”⁠ (see also Lundgren et al 2020⁠/media⁠)

• ⁠“The secret joke of Kant’s soul”⁠, Greene2007

• ⁠“Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets”⁠, Salganik & Watts2009

• “The Agency: From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid ‘trolls’ has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet—and in real-life American communities”⁠

• “Education, Intelligence, and Attitude Extremity”⁠, Makowsky & Miller2014

• Macabre Murder Factory Flies Under the Radar (on Sumida Miyoko⁠)

• ⁠“The Moon: A Propaganda Hoax”; ⁠“On Not Believing In Canada”⁠

• “Post-Apocalit”⁠

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine”⁠

• “The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research”⁠, Freedman et al 2015

• “An Alternative to Null-Hypothesis Significance Tests: P_rep”⁠, Killeen2005

• “Effect of monthly vitamin D₃ supplementation in healthy adults on adverse effects of earthquakes: a randomized controlled trial”⁠, Slow et al 2014 (if only more people could be this imaginative in thinking about how to run RCTs⁠, and less defeatist)

• ⁠“Shuffles, Bayes’s theorem and continuations”⁠

• ⁠“Eyes wide shut: pseudo-placebo effects”

Psychology/biology:

• ⁠“How a Grad Student Uncovered a Huge Fraud”⁠

• “Infectious causation of disease: an evolutionary perspective”⁠, Cochran et al 2000

• ⁠“Hunting and Hallucinogens: The use of psychoactive and other plants to improve the hunting ability of dogs”⁠, Bennett & Alarcón2015

• “A Pickpocket’s Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins”⁠

• ⁠“The Lying Disease: Why Would Someone Want to Fake a Serious Illness on the Internet?”⁠

Technology:

• ⁠“Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs” (see also: people who break software just by being near)

• ⁠“What is the largest possible inhabitable world?”

• ⁠“Incremental Regular Expressions”

Economics:

• “The Red and the Black: Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?”

• “Robert Murphy’s Bet That Inflation Was Just Around the Corner Has Gone Absolutely Horribly Wrong” (and he’s going to lose the 2016 bet too…)

Books

Fiction:

• A.E. Housman⁠:

  • ⁠More Poems⁠ (⁠review⁠)

  • ⁠Last Poems⁠

  • Additional Poems

• Nihei’s Biomega (⁠review⁠), Abara (even lamer)

Film/TV

Live-action:

• Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion⁠ (⁠review⁠)

• The Bridge over the River Kwai⁠ (⁠review⁠)

Anime:

• Mushishi Zoku Shou⁠ (⁠review⁠)

• Barakamon⁠ (⁠review⁠)

Music

Touhou:

• “至極真っ当なる驕りと遊戯～竹取飛翔” (Ibiza; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

• “私たちはこれから～廃獄ララバイ” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

• “灰燼～ラストリモート” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

• “今こそ月の満ちる時～エクステンドアッシュ” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

• “STARDUST HERO～恋色マスタースパーク” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

• “MIND OF SPACE～千年幻想郷” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

• “Flanhelp Op.1-496～U.Nオーエンは彼女なのか？” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

Kantai Collection:

• ⁠“Day Battle (Cannons and Torpedoes, Fire!)”⁠ (Marasy; Fleet Piano Collection {C87}) [classical]