This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.
Rules:
Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.
Everything is heritable:
* "Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities", Plomin et al 2013
* "The high heritability of educational achievement reflects many genetically influenced traits, not just intelligence", Krapohl et al 2014
* "Growth, efficiency, and yield of commercial broilers from 1957, 1978, and 2005", Zuidhof et al 2014 (media; excerpts)
* "Estimating the Inbreeding Depression on Cognitive Behavior: A Population Based Study of Child Cohort"
* "Korea's Sooam Biotech Is the World's First Animal Cloning Factory"
Politics/religion:
* "Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia"
* "The Hollow Men II: Some reflections on Westminster and Whitehall dysfunction", Dominic Cummings
* "In Front of Your Nose"
* "Nothing in Moderation" (Worth remembering in discussions of the Middle East that even in the USA, the masses are deeply illiberal, pro-statist, against rights, and extremist.)
* Newton and alchemy
* "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup"
* "An Examination of Stereotype Threat Effects on Girls' Mathematics Performance", Ganley et al 2013
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
* "How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data"
* "In half of the [placebo-controlled] studies, the results provide evidence against continued use of the investigated surgical procedures." (media)
* "How to Make More Published Research True", Ioannidis 2014
* "Khan Academy: machine learning → measurable learning"
* "Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics"
* Survivorship bias
* Writing math papers
* "Against optimism about social science"
* Classification through compression: PAQClass
* "How often does it happen that the oldest person alive dies?"
* "Is long-term calorie restriction in humans worth it?"
* "learnfun & playfun: A general technique for automating NES games" (paper)
How often does correlation=causality?
* "Randomized versus historical controls
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.
Rules: