Politics/religion:

• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Graeber 2004 (excerpts)
• "A Genome-Wide Analysis of Liberal and Conservative Political Attitudes", Hatemi et al 2011 (excerpts)
• "Growing Up Sexually in Europe"
• "Losing the War" (WWII in propaganda vs as experienced)
• Basil Zaharoff
• "A Filthy History: When New Yorkers Lived Knee-Deep in Trash"
• "Bin Laden raid reveals 'state failure': Leaked report offers scathing assessment of how al-Qaeda chief was able to evade detection" (and if you believe that...)
• "New New Fatherhood in the Inner City: A new book reveals how poor urban dads are reversing gender roles in caring for their children, but not being providers"
• Higher education is signaling
• "'Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book': The new warrior cop is out of control"
• "U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement"
• "What Can the Middle East Learn From What's Happening in Qatar?"
• "Xhosa cattle-killing movement and famine (1854-1858)"

Psychology:

• "A preliminary report of kayak-angst among the Eskimo of West Greenland: a study in sensory deprivation", Gussow 1963
• "Do Rational People Exist?"
• "Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower"
• "Hikikomori as a Gendered Issue: Analysis on the discourse of acute social withdrawal in contemporary Japan", Dziesinski 2004 (excerpts)
• "Drugs and the Meaning of Life", Sam Harris
• "Fooled twice, shame on who? Problems with Mechanical Turk study samples, part 2"

• training murder investigations:

  • Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
  • "1930s: Nutshell studies of unexplained death"
  • Death in Diorama
  • "These Gruesome Dollhouse Death Scenes Helped Create Forensic Science"

Technology:

• "In the Beginning was the Command Line", Neal Stephenson
• Data Compression Explained, Matt Mahoney
• "A Pedagogy of Diminishing Returns: Scientific Involution across Three Generations of Nuclear Weapons Science", Gusterson 2005
• "Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey", Sotala & Yampolskiy 2013
• "It's All About The Benjamins: An empirical study on incentivizing users to ignore security advice", Christin et al (excerpts)
• "Visualizing Algorithms" (sorting, maze-drawing)
• "how I created 8088 Domination, which is a program that displays fairly decent full-motion video on a 1981 IBM PC"
• "Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems" (on the nigh-insuperable difficulties of correct filename handling)
• "TCP ex Machina: Computer-Generated Congestion Control" ("Although the RemyCCs appear to work well on networks whose parameters fall within or near the limits of what they were prepared for - even beating in-network schemes at their own game and even when the design range spans an order of magnitude variation in network parameters - we do not yet understand clearly why they work, other than the observation that they seem to optimize their intended objective well. We have attempted to make algorithms ourselves that surpass the generated RemyCCs, without success.")
• Ultra-long-term civilizations: planets warmed by neutrinos

Statistics:

• "Knowing When to Stop: How to gamble if you must-the mathematics of optimal stopping"
• "Model Combination and Adjustment"
• "Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics", Varian 2014 (Readable overview of some machine learning techniques for economics.)
• "If correlation doesn't imply causation, then what does?", Nielsen
• "Sequence Thinking vs. Cluster Thinking" (False dichotomy - "cluster thinking" is simply "sequence thinking" sans arbitrary restrictions of hypotheses/models, like a cryonics analysis which only uses conjunctions and never disjunctions, so it's unsurprising that sequence thinking is faster & easier but generally less accurate than cluster thinking; but still interesting.)
• Using Repeated Measures & LOESS smoothing to Remove Artifacts from Longitudinal Data (The idea of measures which systematically vary over time terrifies me, but that's a neat approach: occasionally take calibration samples and fit a curve to control for the bias.)
• "The Neutral Model of Inquiry (or, What Is the Scientific Literature, Chopped Liver?)"
• Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment

Medicine:

• "Who By Very Slow Decay": end-of-life medical care

Economics:

• "How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared", Heald 2013
• "How bad were the Navigation Acts really?"
• "Results of the German and American submarine campaigns of WWII"
• The price of the Cold War: ~$12,000 billion?
• The price of Apollo: ~$170 billion.
• The price of the Manhattan Project: ~$30 billion.
• "Should Oregon fund college through equity?"

5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong from Cracked. They are:

Cocaine Discovered in Egyptian Mummies, Ancient Hebrew Inscribed on a Rock in New Mexico, Ancient Roman Statues in Mexico, A Norse Coin in Maine, and Ancient Japanese Speakers in New Mexico.