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"

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 et al 2008 (publication bias & incorrect papers; excerpts)
• "Prisons Are Built With Bricks Of Law And Brothels With Bricks Of Religion, But That Doesn't Prove A Causal Relationship"
• "Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial", Leibovici 2001 (Norvig comments)
• "What effect size would you expect?"
• "On the distribution of time-to-proof of mathematical conjectures", Hisano & Sornette 2012
• "Bayes' rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don't work"
• "Kalkalash! Pinpointing the Moments The Simpsons became less Cromulent"
• "Bayes Academy: Development report 1"

Psychology/biology:

• "Thank you for doing something ambiguously between smoking and not smoking"
• "CBD in Colorado: Seeking a marijuana miracle [for children with severe epilepsy]" ("The question is not whether it is ethical to run a randomized trial, but whether it is ethical to not run a randomized trial", I found myself thinking again and again in this sad and pitiable story of being fooled by randomness.)
• "Morningness-eveningness and educational outcomes: The lark has an advantage over the owl at high school", Preckel et al 2013
• "What Do You Desire?" (on the porn company Kink.com)
• "Suicide: An Economic Approach", Becker & Posner 2004 (excerpts)
• "The Graying of Academia: Will It Reduce Scientific Productivity?", Stroebe 2010 (excerpts)
• "Can Behavioral Tools Improve Online Student Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from a Massive Open Online Course", Patterson 2014 (excerpts)
• "Direct Effect of Sunshine on Suicide", Vyssoki et al 2014
• "The future of teratology research is in vitro", Bailey et al 2005
• "Spaced Repetition and Mnemonics Enable Recall of Multiple Strong Passwords", Blocki et al 2014 (excerpts)
• "Subu Must Die: How a nation of junkies went cold turkey"
• Golden Gate Bridge suicides
• "Refugees of the Modern World: The "electrosensitive" are moving to a cellphone-free town. But is their disease real?"
• "Secrets of the Magus: Ricky Jay does closeup magic that flouts reality"
• "How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over"
• "The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/confirmation-bias-is-a-basic-human-frailty-1420045281