Everything is heritable:

• "Eight thousand years of [human] natural selection in Europe", Mathieson et al 2015 (Khan)
• "The Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics" (GWAS hits replicate across populations; dominance genetic variation explains little of variation - most continues to be additive.)

Politics/religion:

• "Break-In at Y-12: How a handful of pacifists and nuns exposed the vulnerability of America's nuclear-weapons sites."
• "The Irish Slave Trade - The Forgotten "White" Slaves; The Slaves That Time Forgot"
• Breast attitudes in North & South Korea
• "Longevity of popes and artists between the 13th and the 19th century", Carrieri & Serraino 2005
• The redemption movement
• "The Lesson of Iraq"
• "Different modes of discourse"
• The iron law of oligarchy

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• "Compliance with Results Reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov", Anderson et al 2015 (incentives matter)
• "The Mystery Machine: End-to-end Performance Analysis of Large-scale Internet Services" (commentary)
• "Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication" (commentary)
• "p Values are not Error Probabilities", Hubbard & Bayarri 2003 (excerpts)
• "Most Published Research Findings Are False—But a Little Replication Goes a Long Way", Moonesinghe 2007
• "Understanding Bayes Theorem With Ratios"
• "Mice Fall Short as Test Subjects for Some of Humans’ Deadly Ills"

Psychology/biology:

• "Coincidental killers: We assume that microbes evolved to attack humans when actually we are just civilian casualties in a much older war"
• "The myopia boom: Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. Some scientists think they have found a reason why"
• "New Improved Lottery": the Premium Bond
• Nasal cycle (One thing I find interesting about the nasal cycle is that even though it's ultra-noticeable when you have a cold or stuffy nose, a lot of people seem to have either never realized that they have a cycle or assume it's a personal idiosyncrasy of their nose. Sort of the opposite of the typical mind fallacy.)

Technology:

• "Hacking the Papal Election"
• "In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On"
• the qanat/karez irrigation system in Turpan

Economics:

• "What's Changed about the Standard of Living? It's Complicated. But Hopeful."
• "Iceland Looks to Export Power Bubbling From Below"
• "In China, Families Bet It All on College for Their Children"
• "Assembling the Billing Block" (the power struggle behind film credits)

Philosophy:

• "The Great Filter - Are We Almost Past It?", Hanson 1998
• Moral anti-realism

Fiction:

• "The Cambist and Lord Iron" (discussion)
• "Extracts from the Club Diary" (Stross; Coffee steampunk, Mars, the end of the world) & "It Was All For The Tuna"
• "Unlock your Spock" (Star Trek poem for Leonard Nimoy)