Everything is heritable:

• "Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians", Mathieson et al 2015 (media)
• pervasive cross-correlations of polygenic scores for various traits: particularly Krapohl et al 2015
• "Genome-wide analysis of over 106,000 individuals identifies 9 neuroticism-associated loci", Smith et al 2015
• "Signaling and Productivity in the Private Financial Returns to Schooling", Bingley et al 2015 (highly unusual design)
• "Childhood Autism and Assortative Mating", Golden 2012

Politics/religion:

• "The American Robber Barons Who Stole Medieval Europe"
• "Book Review: Empire of the Summer Moon"
• "Little to Show for Cash Flood by Big Donors"
• "Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate"
• on mood affiliation
• Proper procedures for stoning an adulterer

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• converting all-cause mortality reductions to life-expectancy increases
• "How to visualize data with cartoonish faces a la Chernoff" (on Chernoff faces)

Psychology/biology:

• The girl who feels no pain
• "Insecticide Resistance and Malaria Control"
• "Cochrane findings that will help you"
• Rubber duck debugging
• "Species-characteristic Responses to Catnip by Undomesticated Felids" , Hill et al 1976
• "Meditation and Its Regulatory Role on Sleep", Nagendra et al 2012

Technology:

• "Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid for Tor-Breaking Research" (If the FBI is harvesting any de-anonymizing data security researchers collect using subpoenas, this seems like a serious attack on academic freedom and research integrity.)
• "DagCoin: a cryptocurrency without blocks"; in an entirely different direction, Bitcoin-NG splits blocks from mining (Bitcoin is just the first, not necessarily the universally ideal. We're in a Cambrian explosion of financial cryptography and should be open to new approaches.)
• "Air Force cadet sentenced to 3 years after buying modafinil, molly, & LSD on Silk Road 2"
• 'man sort': '--random-sort' misleading (use shuf if you need random sorts on the CLI)

Economics:

• "As Coasts Rebuild and U.S. Pays, Repeatedly, the Critics Ask Why"/"Should the Northeast Bury its Power Lines to Prevent Outages?"/"Having your cake and eating it too: The maturity structure of US debt"
• "Ricardo's Difficult Idea"/"The Real Winners and Losers of Globalization: Globalization has radically changed global income dynamics. So who has won and who has lost?"
• "Cosmic Commodities: How much is a new planet worth?"
• "The Goethe Auction"

Philosophy:

• "When Do Extraordinary Claims Give Extraordinary Evidence?", Hanson 2007
• Philosophy of humor
• "Fog-like sensations"
• A Softer World, #891
• Esotericism as a form of communication

the Plausibility of Dragons

Rationalist fiction in the sense of having a lot of respect for deduction from evidence. Also a pleasant enough story.

Extreme Self-Tracking

Man has himself MRIed twice a week for a year and a half, plus tracking a lot about his life. The data mining is still going on, but at least it's been shown that (probably) people's connectomes change pretty rapidly.

I'm also posting this to the open thread because I'm not sure where it's more likely to be seen.

If you only have time for one link. Check out STOP POINT RAIN (mindfulness techniques)

Radicalisation

• Can the complex nature and determinants of radicalisation be reduced to four simple psychosocial antecedents?

Addiction

100 day no sweet challenge

No chocolate challenge

Mindfulness of emotions

Rational thinking and anxiety

Complex PTSD

• Beat procrastination now!

• SOBER

Evidence-based education

• Propose a new subject

• Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

Political marketing

Science

Social skills, Reddit

Cross examination fo expert witnessess 1 2 3 and 4

Visibility on Wikipedia Political candidates positioning

Political Candidates Positioning Based on Inter-Object Associative Affinity Index

Genetic psychiatry

• AA genotype reporting in - Genetic effect modification of abuse or this

• Silver lining gene

• Chad and the Gene-Env psychiatry centre

• Everybody has a brain

Cryptocurrency development

name check;

coinvertise on fb;

Mining with AWS

Can it be outsourced?

Cold calling

Budget

Remote staff and staff and upwork

Grow my team

YBF events

Mailouts

Grant writing

fiddy cent domains

Rationalists on a startup team. Good opportunity?

Development

crisis communication

Volunteer with Indigenous people

stand-alone smart watches

Tensor flow machine learning, portable digitalisers for smart watches?

Blocks

Omata

positive psychology

Positive psychology checklist Culture and positive psychology