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