Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence”, Shakeshaft et al 2015 (DeFries-Fulker regression indicates no difference in genes driving heritability of top decile intelligence vs rest ie no rare variants w/large benefits)

  • “Political Attitudes Develop Independently of Personality Traits”, Hatemi & Verhulst2015

Politics/religion:

• “‘Ethics’ is advertising”, “The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield”; “A Daughter’s Quest to Free Her Father’s Killer: Katie Kitchen wanted to live up to her progressive ideals. Her own family tragedy presented a chance.”; “The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge: A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?”; “A Bestselling Author Became Obsessed With Freeing a Man From Prison. It Nearly Ruined Her Life.” (“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees…”, “organisms are adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers”)

• “The Cost of Crime to Society: New Crime-Specific Estimates for Policy and Program Evaluation”, McCollister et al 2010

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “A New, Life-or-Death Approach to Funding Heart Research”

• “Magnesium l-threonate/Magtein: publication bias in its human trials”

• Click-o-Tron: “Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks”

• “Page Weight Matters” (Simpson’s paradox: when a better treatment—faster YouTube page loads—makes aggregate numbers worse (average latency goes up) because new users arrive due to the improvement)

Psychology/biology:

• “Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry”, Markram et al 2015 (media)

• “Synchronizing education to adolescent biology: ‘let teens sleep, start school later’”, Kelley et al 2014

• “Evolution of the human brain: when bigger is better”, Hofman2014

• “When Evolution Is Infectious”

• Charles Bonnet syndrome (10–40% of blind people can experience vivid complex visual hallucinations; they just don’t ever talk about it.)

• “The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1: Sword wounds and the circulatory system”

• Dealing with a mercury spill

Technology:

• “Crush Point: When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe?”

Economics:

• “Ghost Babies”

• “Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?”, McLean & Pontiff2016

Philosophy:

• “The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias”

• “Growing a Language”, Steele1998

Fiction:

• Friendship is Optimal

• “It Was You Who Made My Eyes Blue”

• “Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry”

Books

Fiction:

• The Wind-up Girl (review)

• The Great Gatsby (review)

Nonfiction:

• Bias in Mental Testing, Jensen1980 (review)

• Drug Interdiction Partnerships, Legal Principles, and Investigative Methodologies for Law Enforcement (review)

• The Master Algorithm (review)

Film/TV

Live-action:

• The Martian (a faithful but very Hollywood depiction of the novel; it is exactly what one would expect upon hearing that The Martian was being turned into a big-budget film starring Matt Damon & Sigourney Weaver, glossy special effects and overwrought soundtrack and all. What is cut from the novel was of no importance.)

• The Great Gatsby (review)

• Back to the Future II

Anime:

• Monogatari Second Season (review)

• A Letter To Momo (review)

Music

Touhou:

• “Fairy Dance” (Pine Tree feat. Mii; Shinsoku {C86}) [rock]

• “Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea” (Ex-calibur; Knights of Round {C73}) [instrumental rock]

Kantai Collection:

• “昼戦・砲雷撃戦、初め! -ピアノ協奏曲-” (TAM; KanColle Piano Concerto {C88}) [orchestral]

Doujin:

• “homephone TE” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014_11ya}) [electronica]

• “yume” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014_11ya}) [electronica]

• “tsuiraku” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014_11ya}) [electronica]

• “sinwave” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014_11ya}) [electronica]

• “handmade” (宮沢もよよ; PLAY {C85}) [electronica]

• “IVY” (Fullkawa-P feat. Utau Kitchen; Girlfriend from Kyoto {2012_13ya}) [Jpop]

• “Purl” (ITM; Bayside Dreamer {C88}) [house]

• “Fresh Air” (Lumina; Bayside Dreamer {C88}) [house]

Vocaloid:

• “Crawlers” (Miku; Croissant Chicago, Morning Act {2015}) [Jpop]

• “Osmium” (Avanna; Omega+, Transgalactic Flight {2015}) [trance/electronic]

• “Parades (monaca:factory Hadal Zone Remix)” (Miku; whoo & monaca:factory, VRUSH UP! #05 -whoo Tribute- {2013_12ya}) [trance]

• “ice (Guitar/Michael Lueckner Fire+Ice Remix)” (Miku; whoo & Michael Lueckner, VRUSH UP! #05 -whoo Tribute- {2013_12ya}) [trance]