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.
[This comment is no longer endorsed by its author]Reply
20gwern
Everything is heritable:
* "Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies", Polderman et al 2015 (excerpts)
* on the genetic basis of rat and mink tameness
Politics/religion:
* "Misperceiving Inequality", Gimpelson & Treisman 2015 (excerpts)
* "Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It", Langbein 1979 (how the German legal system avoids our own reliance on plea-bargaining to send most defendants to jail without trial)
* "The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher"
* "The Science of Sex Abuse: Is it right to imprison people for heinous crimes they have not yet committed?"
* "Why the future won’t be genetically homogeneous"
* "Aged Heterogeneity: Fact or Fiction? The Fate of Diversity in Gerontological Research", Nelson & Dannefer 1992
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
* "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks"
* "Using N-of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and Save Costs", Scuffham 2010
* "Assessing Kurzweil: the results"
* "A survey of Bayesian predictive methods for model assessment, selection and comparison", Vehtari & Ojanen
* "The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell"
* "Leaving Office Feet First: Death In Congress", Maltzman et al 1996
* "Nuclear weapon statistics using monoids, groups, and modules in Haskell"
* "Flat Priors and Other Improbable Tales"
Psychology/biology:
* "Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans", Vita-More & Barranco 2015 (excerpts)
* "The effects of oral iron supplementation on cognition in older children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis", Falkingham et al 2010
* "Historical Review and Appraisal of Research on the Learning, Retention, and Transfer of Human Motor Skills", Adams 1987
* "Programmer Interrupted"
* "E unibus pluram: television and U.S. fiction"
* 2,4-Dinitrophenol
* "What’s in a Color? The Unique Human Health Effects of Blue Light", Holzman 2010
* "Diving Deep into Danger"
* "Late Night Thoughts on R
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: