Comment on April 2014 Media Thread

Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:46:12 GMT

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"

Tweets which are anagrams of each other

"A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names", Meiklejohn et al 2013 (excerpts)

Philosophy:

"Searching For One-Sided Tradeoffs" (Optimality/equilibrium reasoning.)

"SCP-988"

Business:

Econlolcats

"The True Story Of The Great Marijuana Crash Of 2011"

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

Discuss