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.
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Everything is heritable:
* "Molecular genetic contributions to social deprivation and household income in UK Biobank (n=112,151)", Hill et al 2016 (correlation graph)
* "Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the general population", Robinson et al 2016
* "Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs", Psychiatric Genomics Consortium 2013
* "Height, body mass index, and socioeconomic status: Mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank", Tyrrell et al 2016
* "Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load", Lynch 2016
* "Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations", Arslan et al 2016 (from "The cost of inbreeding in terms of health")
* "Engineering the Perfect Baby"
* "Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo" (roundup of recent & planned CRISPR applications in animals)
* "Genetic variance estimation with imputed variants finds negligible missing heritability for human height and body mass index", Yang et al 2015
Politics/religion:
* "The Dog Thief Killings"
* "How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan"
* "Legalize It All: How to Win the War on Drugs"
AI:
* "Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering", Xiong et al 2016
* "Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection", Levine et al 2016 (video)
* "Generating images with recurrent adversarial networks", Im et al 2016 (Another nice improvement in the state of the art; getting RNNs working with adversarial training is believed to be pretty tricky.)
* "Deep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN", Osband et al 2016 (Who'd've thought there was a way to combine bootstrapping and deep q-networks?)
* AlphaGo as AI risk example (Inside View beat Outside View 4-1)
Statistics/meta-science:
* "Underreporting in Psychology Experiments: Evidence From a Study Registry
-2morganism
An economics paper on the incestuous interlinking of the trans-national corporations, with formula to show structures.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728v2
and what it means to the average joe,
http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php/commentary/international-commentary/26284-oligopolies-unmasked-the-death-of-competition
I haven't read the econ paper yet, but with the leak of the Panama Papers, a shell corporation forming law firm, there is going to be some interesting correlating going on...
http://www.zerohedge.com/print/527900
and the source https://panamapapers.icij.org/the_power_players/
can you say Lenin ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism
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: