Medicine:

• "Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?" (Gary Taubes, 2007)
• "The End of Food: Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?" (Soylent)
• Low-dose aspirin for mortality reduction revisited
• Creatine self-experiment

Economics:

• "SSC Gives A Graduation Speech" (on the value of college and alternatives)
• "What You Should Know About Megaprojects and Why: An Overview", Flyvbjerg 2014 (excerpts)
• "Why Do Firms Buy Ads?" (advertising requires impossibly large sample sizes for meaningful results)
• "The Business Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists: Why Terror Masterminds Rely on Micro-Management"
• Inferring nuclear bomb components from stock market returns
• The Sewing Machine Patent Wars

Politics:

• "Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War", Jones & Olken 2007 (excerpts)
• "The Borgias vs Borgia: Faith and Fear (accuracy in historical fiction)"
• "800 Years Of Human Sacrifice In Kent"
• "King of Fearmongers: Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, scaring donors since 1971"
• "BUGGER: maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs"
• "Beyond the One Percent: Categorizing Extreme Elites"
• "free speech rights and ability"
• "Exploring Elitist Democracy: The Latest from Gilens and Page"

Psychology:

• "Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities"
• Many Labs project published
• "Slow Ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don't?"
• "New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith: First systematic analysis of its kind even proposes reasons for the negative correlation"
• Biases in grocery shopping

Philosophy:

• "Don't Fear the (Great) Filter"
• "Humans are Utility Monsters"
• "Universal Library", by W.O. Quine

Literature:

• "Sand Kings", GRRM
• "The Island", Peter Watts
• "Calmly We Walk through This April's Day", Delmore Schwartz
• "Fermat's Last Stand: Soundtrack and Adventure Log"
• Parable of the Unjust Steward