Everything is heritable:

• "Uncovering the Hidden Risk Architecture of the Schizophrenias: Confirmation in Three Independent Genome-Wide Association Studies", Arnedo et al 2014 (press release; excerpts)
• "Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method", Rietveld et al 2014; supplementary information (Rietveld et al 2013 hits replicate some more; discussions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• "Substantial SNP-based heritability estimates for working memory performance", Vogler et al 2014 (excerpts)

Politics/religion:

• "World population stabilization unlikely this century", Gerland et al 2014 (excerpts)
• "Growing Up Sexually in Europe"
• "School Desegregation and Black Achievement: an integrative review", Wortman & Bryant 1985 (publication bias: "The 31 studies found to be acceptable [by our statistical criteria for our meta-analysis] contained only two published articles."!)
• "Going, Going, Gone..." (The dilemma of polio research - amelioration vs cure - as a paradigm for aging.)
• Buddhist warrior monks

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• "ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge", "What I learned from competing against a Convolutional Network on ImageNet" (neural networks near parity with trained humans on ImageNet: "Based on the sample of images I worked on, the GoogLeNet classification error turned out to be 6.8% (the error on the full test set of 100,000 images is 6.7%). My own error in the end turned out to be 5.1%, approximately 1.7% better.")
• "How to critique claims of a "blood test for depression" - Mind the Brain" (summary)
• "World values lost in translation"
• "At what sample size do correlations stabilize?", Schönbrodt & Perugini 2013 (excerpts)
• "Yes We Canities! A quantitative analysis of the graying of Barack Obama's hair"
• invoking spirits to control coin flips (p<0.05): Bakan 1966

Psychology:

• "Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons. We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why."
• "MH's book review of Deafness, Deprivation, and IQ (Braden 1994)", "The study of deaf people since Braden (1994)"
• "Induction of self awareness in dreams through frontal low current stimulation of gamma activity", Voss et al 2014 (causing lucid dreaming through tACS)
• "Towards Reliable Storage of 56-bit Secrets in Human Memory", Bonneau & Schechter (tricking website users into memorizing secure passwords via spaced repetition)
• "Iodine and the Renaissance: Will history turn full cycle?" (commentary)

Technology:

• SMBC: the falling problem
• The Codeless Code: Case 96: "Stateless" (can you spot all 3 FP concepts used?)

Economics:

• "Dire Warnings by Big Tobacco on E-Smoking" (example of Bootleggers and baptists)
• A Second Look at a wooden bench (Joy in the merely real.)
• "How much damage can a 6 year-old possibly do? An analysis of the cost of raising a child like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes"

Philosophy:

• "The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering"
• "On the Pedagogical Motive for Esoteric Writing [in Western Philosophy]", Melzer 2007; "Appendix: a chronological compilation of testimonial evidence for Esotericism"

Misc:

• survival of the flattest: "Viroids: Survivors from the RNA World?", Flores et al 2014 (excerpts)
• Gong farmer
• "The World's Heaviest People" ("...A contemporary poet has him declare that he aspired to end his days 'on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely uttering a word, taking labored breaths, and eating my fill', for of all the ways a man might die, an excess of luxury was the only truly happy death.")
• "How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous Brindley lecture", Klotz 2005