Everything is heritable:

• "Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (n=112151)", Davies et al 2016

• Continuation of the recent phenome theme of inter-correlations of negative traits and inter-correlation of positive traits:

  • "Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain", Anttila et al 2016
  • "Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses", Okbay et al 2016
  • "Physical and neurobehavioral determinants of reproductive onset and success", Day et al 2016
  • "Association between stressful life events and psychotic experiences in adolescence: evidence for gene–environment correlations", Shakoor et al 2016
• "Introducing precise genetic modifications into human 3PN embryos by CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing", Kang et al 2016 (see also Liang et al 2015; both describe the CRISPR state of the art as of early 2014, 2+ years ago)
• "Variants near CHRNA3/5 and APOE have age- and sex-related effects on human lifespan", Joshi et al 2016
• "National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration", Proto & Oswald 2015
• Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins (media)
• "Monkey kingdom: China is positioning itself as a world leader in primate research"

Politics/religion:

• Book Review: Albion's Seed
• "Peer review: Troubled from the start"
• "My Year in San Francisco's \$2 Million Secret Society Startup"

AI:

• "Deep Networks with Stochastic Depth", Huang et al 2016 (dropout of random layers, which does not just work, but works better and enables >1200-layer residual networks. This might be related to Liao & Poggio 2016 claim that deep residual nets are effectively unrolled RNNs which apply slight variants of an algorithm to many timesteps.)
• "Generating Large Images from Latent Vectors"
• "Foveation-based Mechanisms Alleviate Adversarial Examples", Luo et al 2016
• "Convolutional Networks for Fast, Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing", Esser et al 2016

Statistics/meta-science:

• "A Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field Experiments at Facebook", Gordon et al 2016 (How often does correlation=causation? <50% of the time in Internet advertising, with gross over/underestimates even with detailed covariate & advanced modeling.)
• "The Bitter Fight Over the Benefits of Bilingualism" (So Bialystok is refusing a collaboration because a pre-registered protocol is unscientific and she refuses to work with someone so 'biased' that they would damage the non-pre-registered results, and besides, publication bias doesn't exist - "there is absolutely no evidence". I see...)
• "Why the National Institutes of Health Should Replace Peer Review With a Lottery: A new study shows that peer-review scores for grant proposals are random anyway"
• "Bandit based Monte-Carlo planning", Kocsis & Szepesvári 2006
• "How Kalman Filters Work, Part 1"
• "The importance of 'gold standard' studies for consumers of research"

Psychology/biology:

• "The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments", Fryer 2016 (education; lots of small effects):
• "A Meta-Analysis of Blood Glucose Effects on Human Decision Making", Orquin & Kurzban 2016
• "Is Ego-Depletion a Replicable Effect? A Forensic Meta-Analysis of 165 Ego Depletion Articles"
• "Indoor air quality and academic performance", Stafford 2015 (apropos of harms of CO2 discussion)
• "Seven Pervasive Statistical Flaws in Cognitive Training Interventions", Moreau et al 2016
• "The Voyeur's Motel"

Technology:

• "What the game 'Werewolf' teaches us about Trust & Security"
• The Raising of Chicago

Economics:

• "Demographic Consequences of Defeating Aging", Gavrilov & Gavrilova 2010
• Interview with short seller Jim Chanos (Short sellers are always so interesting. Few people are so motivated to see through the miasma of lies and bias and self-serving optimism in the business and finance world.)