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:
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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.
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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.
Technology:
* "Human Performance", 2008 JASON (excerpts)
* Spreadsheet mistakes
* "Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot", Klein et al 2014
* "The Hundred-Year Language"
* M50 Ontos
* Photoacoustic spectroscopy
* "Turing Drawings": flowing sand
* The NSA copes with a volcano
* Project Iceworm
* "The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator, Visionary and Genius"
Economics:
* College major salary premiums
* "What Are Foundations For?" (principal-agent conflicts; against perpetuities)
* "A lucky little fish turns out to be the solution to iron deficiency among women in Cambodia, a problem solved by a University of Guelph researcher."
* "Should Psychological Neuroscience Research Be Funded?" (discussion)
* Kids for cash scandal
* "Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."
* "The Coase Theorem is false: contracts depend on tort law"
* "One Kind of Lawlessness: Estimating the Welfare Cost of Somali Piracy"
Philosophy:
* "Bayesian Adjustment Does Not Defeat Existential Risk Charity"
* "Transhumanist Fables"
* "Study: Wolf Attacks Still Leading Cause Of Death In U.S."
* "Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays from Vectors 3.0", James Richardson
Misc:
* "Limits", Jorge Luis Borges
* Great mistakes in history: the scuttling of the German navy
* Hollywood Archaeology: The Super Mario Bros. Movie; Unearthing a major disaster to learn the lessons held within
* "On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head"
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Everything is heritable:
* "Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies six novel loci associated with habitual coffee consumption", The Coffee and Caffeine Genetics Consortium et al 2014 (excerpts)
* "Results of a 'GWAS Plus': General Cognitive Ability Is Substantially Heritable and Massively Polygenic", Kirkpatrick et al 2014
* "Understanding the Genetics of Intelligence: Can Height Help? Can Corn Oil?", Johnson 2010 (excerpts)
* "The impact of neighbourhood deprivation on adolescent violent criminality and substance misuse: A longitudinal, quasi-experimental study of the total Swedish population ", Sariaslan et al 2013 (excerpts)
* "Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication", Carneiro et al 2014 (the power of selection - complex behaviors influenced by many small changes; excerpts)
Politics/religion:
* "Why the World Is Not Falling Apart: Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times.", Pinker & Mack; "Good News You May Have Missed in 2014", Gates
* "Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted To Know"
* "The Zen Predator of the Upper East Side"
* "Police, Paramilitaries, Nationalists and Gangsters: The Processes of State Building in Korea", Porteux 2013 (excerpts)
* "Hitler's Declaration of War Against the US"
* Sacculina parasite
* "Truncated transcript from today's SCOTUS argument" (parody)
* "Question 94. The relations of the saints towards the damned: Whether the blessed in heaven will see the sufferings of the damned?"
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
* "Contradicted and Initially Stronger Effects in Highly Cited Clinical Research", Ioannidis 2005 (excerpts)
* "A 'Sham Procedure' Leads to Disappointing Multiple Scelerosis News"
* The power of placebos: when water feels like LSD.
* "What Went Wrong? Reflections on Science by Observation and The Bell Curve", Glymour 1998 (correlation & causation)
* "Full publication of results initially presented in abstracts (Review)", Scherer
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: