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)