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 for clinical trials", Sacks et al 1982 (excerpts)
• "The Adequacy of Comparison Group Designs for Evaluations of Employment-Related Programs", Fraker & Maynard 1987 (excerpts)
• "Choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies: a systematic review", Britton et al 1998 (excerpts)
• "A systematic review of comparisons of effect sizes derived from randomised and non-randomised studies", MacLehose et al 2000 (excerpts)
• "Randomisation to protect against selection bias in healthcare trials (Cochrane Methodology Review)", Kunz et al 2002 (excerpts)
• "A weight of evidence approach to causal inference", Swaen & van Amelsvoort 2009 (circular reasoning & how not to do causal inference; excerpts/discussion)

Psychology/biology:

• "Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert?", Hambrick et al 2013 (excerpts)
• "Decision Making Following a Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: An Integrative Review", Choi et al 2012 (excerpts; connection to embryo selection)
• "Do We Believe Everything We're Told?"
• "The Acquired Immune System: A Vantage from Beneath", Hedrick 2004 (immune systems as parasites; excerpts)
• The Pursuit of Noninvasive Glucose Blood Tests: "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey", John Smith
• Fertility and intelligence

Technology:

• "The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation" (WP)
• "Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums"
• Advanced factory manufacturing in America
• "A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene"
• "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0"
• "Carding Forums, Ponzi Schemes and Law Enforcement: A background on Evolution Marketplace", by the_avid
• "Fusion Power by Magnetic Confinement Program Plan", Dean 1998
• Text of SXSW2013 closing remarks by Bruce Sterling
• "We need to get a lot better at imagining the future"
• "2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future"
• Successful tech companies' business models reviewed