Everything is heritable:

• "Molecular genetic contributions to social deprivation and household income in UK Biobank (n=112,151)", Hill et al 2016 (correlation graph)
• "Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the general population", Robinson et al 2016
• "Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs", Psychiatric Genomics Consortium 2013
• "Height, body mass index, and socioeconomic status: Mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank", Tyrrell et al 2016
• "Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load", Lynch 2016
• "Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations", Arslan et al 2016 (from "The cost of inbreeding in terms of health")
• "Engineering the Perfect Baby"
• "Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo" (roundup of recent & planned CRISPR applications in animals)
• "Genetic variance estimation with imputed variants finds negligible missing heritability for human height and body mass index", Yang et al 2015

Politics/religion:

• "The Dog Thief Killings"
• "How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan"
• "Legalize It All: How to Win the War on Drugs"

AI:

• "Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering", Xiong et al 2016
• "Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection", Levine et al 2016 (video)
• "Generating images with recurrent adversarial networks", Im et al 2016 (Another nice improvement in the state of the art; getting RNNs working with adversarial training is believed to be pretty tricky.)
• "Deep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN", Osband et al 2016 (Who'd've thought there was a way to combine bootstrapping and deep q-networks?)
• AlphaGo as AI risk example (Inside View beat Outside View 4-1)

Statistics/meta-science:

• "Underreporting in Psychology Experiments: Evidence From a Study Registry", Franco et al 2015 (previously: Franco et al 2014)
• "Is there a publication bias in behavioral intranasal oxytocin research on humans? Opening the file drawer of one lab", Lane 2016

• how often does correlation=causation?

  • "Comparison of Evidence of Treatment Effects in Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies", Ioannidis et al 2001
  • "Comparison of Effects in Randomized Controlled Trials With Observational Studies in Digestive Surgery", Shikata et al 2006
• "The Scientific Impact of Positive and Negative Phase 3 Cancer Clinical Trials", Unger et al 2016
• "The Stress Test: Rivalries, intrigue, and fraud in the world of stem-cell research"

Psychology/biology:

• "Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind", Hofman 2015 (plenty of room at the top; excerpts)
• "What sparked the Cambrian explosion?"
• "'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance", Marie & Zölitz 2015 (Dutch natural experiment in selective marijuana ban in a university town)
• "Correlation and Causation in the Study of Personality", Lee 2012
• "State-Space of Drug Effects: Results"
• 2016 Nootropics survey results

Technology:

• "Lessons from 30 Years of MINIX"
• Heat pipe
• "The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel"
• "Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)"

Economics:

• "Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation", Beach et al 2016

Fiction:

• "With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens" (creative hermeneutics)

Fiction:

Story by R.S. Bakker about a boy talking to a hobbled AI. https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/the-dime-spared/

13 perspectives to help see things as they really are, not as we expect them to be

Rupert Murdoch’s Ex-Wife Wendi Deng Is Dating Vladimir Putin

Ferdinand Waldo Demara

Economists Are Warming to Government Intervention

The incentives for individually feminists to be controversial rather than fight the really important battles where they actually exist continues to plague university campuses

Hass avocado Retail Volume & Price Data

Anyone know anything about drug discovery for antidepressants and antianxiolytics? Pharmacology of antidepressants

The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow

Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment - the answer is yes, posting on facebook makes you less lonely irrespective of whether people actually interact with your content.

How do you evaluate the effectiveness of additional research, effective altruists? Don't reinvent the wheel, we already have a framework for that

Ben Folds Five "DO IT ANYWAY" f. Fraggle Rock AND 6 Mindsets That Will Make You Magnetic AND Game of Thrones: How Power Really Works AND Why Tyrion Can't Be Killed

AI for advertising and shopping overview. Mostly about personal assistants tho...

https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/04/01/how-artificial-intelligence-can-be-used-for-marketing

An economics paper on the incestuous interlinking of the trans-national corporations, with formula to show structures.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728v2

and what it means to the average joe,

http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php/commentary/international-commentary/26284-oligopolies-unmasked-the-death-of-competition

I haven't read the econ paper yet, but with the leak of the Panama Papers, a shell corporation forming law firm, there is going to be some interesting correlating going on...

http://www.zerohedge.com/print/527900

and the source https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/

can you say Lenin ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism