Literature:

• "William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211"
• "You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes" (Nethack essay on pets; my dog died last month)
• "Our Toyota was Fantastic"
• Wondermark: "Better Olympic Narratives" / #1001; "In which Athletes are overgood"
• "SCP-1370"
• "Composer of the Month – Jun Maeda"

Medicine:

• "The Nazi War on Cancer"
• "IamA Anesthesia Awareness survivor!" (see also Inverse P-zombies)
• "Bad Dreams"

Psychology:

• "Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review", Langlois et al 2000 (excerpts)
• "Hints of genomic dark matter: rare variants contribute to schizophrenia risk"
• "Xenopsychology"
• "Nootropics surveys and results" (I also did a multi-level model analysis of the data)

Statistics:

• Inferring XKCD topics with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
• Lies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ∞) (rape statistics)
• Beware Mass-Produced Medical Recommendations (I disagree on the benefits of vitamin D for all-cause mortality; see my comments)
• "If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be?"

Science/technology:

• "A Star in a Bottle: An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out." (ITER fusion research update; some shades of Radiance/NIF in there...)
• "Geoengineering research" (Givewell)
• "On the Statistics of Individual Variations of Productivity in Research Laboratories", Shockley 1957 (discussion; see also "Age and Outstanding Achievement: What Do We Know After a Century of Research?", Simonton 1988)
• Fully Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Markets
• "The recent 'How Quantum is the D-Wave Machine?' Shin et al paper" (If I had D-Wave shares, I would be selling at any price.)
• "Little's Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is your bottleneck (and what you can do about it)" (possibly obvious notes on server scaling to anyone working on big services, but I liked the use of Little's law to structure the discussion.)
• "Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found" (satire)

Misc:

• "Don't End The Week With Nothing" (Portfolios and working in public.)
• "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", Lewis Carroll