Links

Everything is heritable:

• Uncovering the Hidden Risk Architecture of the Schizophrenias: Confirmation in Three Independent Genome-Wide Association Studies, Arnedo et al 2014 (press release; excerpts)
• Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method, Rietveld et al 2014; supplementary information (Rietveld et al 2013 hits replicate some more; discussions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Substantial SNP-based heritability estimates for working memory performance, Vogler et al 2014 (excerpts)

Politics/religion:

• World population stabilization unlikely this century, Gerland et al 2014 (excerpts)
• Growing Up Sexually in Europe
• School Desegregation and Black Achievement: an integrative review, Wortman & Bryant 1985 (publication bias: The 31 studies found to be acceptable [by our statistical criteria for our meta-analysis] contained only two published articles.!)
• Going, Going, Gone… (The dilemma of polio research - amelioration vs cure - as a paradigm for aging.)
• Buddhist warrior monks

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, What I learned from competing against a Convolutional Network on ImageNet (neural networks near parity with trained humans on ImageNet: Based on the sample of images I worked on, the GoogLeNet classification error turned out to be 6.8% (the error on the full test set of 100,000 images is 6.7%). My own error in the end turned out to be 5.1%, approximately 1.7% better.)
• How to critique claims of ablood test for depression" - Mind the Brain“ (summary)
• World values lost in translation
• At what sample size do correlations stabilize?, Schönbrodt & Perugini 2013 (excerpts)
• Yes We Canities! A quantitative analysis of the graying of Barack Obama’s hair
• invoking spirits to control coin flips (p<0.05): Bakan 1966

Psychology:

• Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons. We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here’s why.
• MH’s book review of Deafness, Deprivation, and IQ (Braden 1994), The study of deaf people since Braden (1994)
• Induction of self awareness in dreams through frontal low current stimulation of gamma activity, Voss et al 2014 (causing lucid dreaming through tACS)
• Towards Reliable Storage of 56-bit Secrets in Human Memory, Bonneau & Schechter (tricking website users into memorizing secure passwords via spaced repetition)
• Iodine and the Renaissance: Will history turn full cycle? (commentary)

Technology:

• SMBC: the falling problem
• The Codeless Code: Case 96: Stateless (can you spot all 3 FP concepts used?)

Economics:

• Dire Warnings by Big Tobacco on E-Smoking (example of Bootleggers and baptists)
• A Second Look at a wooden bench (Joy in the merely real.)
• How much damage can a 6 year-old possibly do? An analysis of the cost of raising a child like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

Philosophy:

• The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering
• On the Pedagogical Motive for Esoteric Writing [in Western Philosophy], Melzer 2007; Appendix: a chronological compilation of testimonial evidence for Esotericism

Misc:

• survival of the flattest: Viroids: Survivors from the RNA World?, Flores et al 2014 (excerpts)
• Gong farmer
• The World’s Heaviest People (…A contemporary poet has him declare that he aspired to end his days on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely uttering a word, taking labored breaths, and eating my fill, for of all the ways a man might die, an excess of luxury was the only truly happy death.)
• How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous Brindley lecture, Klotz 2005

Books

Nonfiction:

• Nicholas Wade’s Troublesome Inheritance (review)

Fiction:

• Dunant’s Blood and Beauty (historical fiction: early history of the Borgias; interesting time period + mediocre writing = decent but not great book)

• Troupes:

  • Renaming of the Birds (review)
  • The Fountain (review)
  • The Simple Men (review)

Film/TV

Anime:

• Steamboy (decent Victorian steampunk with a wholesome Ghibli sort of vibe)
• Arakawa under the Bridge x Bridge (review)
• Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (review)

Music

Touhou:

• Poison Body (TAM; Namida no Touhou Komoriuta {R10}) [classical]
• Love-Colored Master Spark (TAM; Namida no Touhou Komoriuta {R10}) [classical]
• Love-Colored. (Crazy Berry feat Ichigo; OSUSHI PROJECT 1 {C86}) [jazz/vocal]
• Far East Fruits (K2 SOUND; 詩夏 Si-ka {C84}) [instrumental]
• 櫻の樹の下には (Septette?) (sisimai-3go; Tomodachi {R10}) [instrumental]
• 自制的な喜怒哀楽 (Cosmic Mind) (sisimai-3go; Tomodachi {R10}) [instrumental]
• 櫻の樹の下には (Border of Life) (sisimai-3go; Tomodachi {R10}) [instrumental]
• Transparent (Aizawa; Silver Scenery {C86}) [instrumental rock]
• Phantom Ensemble (CROW_S CLAW; THE FLAMES OF THE INFERNO {R10}) [instrumental rock]
• 竹取飛翔 ～ Lunatic Princess (2nd Spell -Fullmoon-より) (xi-on; 東方志奏 Ex2 Spell -Regeneration- {R10}) [instrumental rock]
• 東方妖々夢 ～ Ancient Temple (5th Spell -Changing Times-より) (xi-on; 東方志奏 Ex2 Spell -Regeneration- {R10}) [metal]
• 幻想の永遠祭 - 空の帰り道 ～ Sky Dream (埼玉最終兵器 & Aether; Silent Stratosphere {R10}) [metal]
• Dressed-Up Shadow (Tim Vegas feat. 陽花; DANCE with WOLVES {C86}) [dance]
• Twinkle (ena feat. peЯoco; デジウィ DREAM {C86}) [Jpop]

Kantai Collection:

• Sailing to the Horizon (Yuri Yuzriha; 艦これパラドクス {C85}) [house]
• Shigure 2nd Remodel Celebration! (R E S T I A feat. Yumi Tanibe {24 Oct 2013}) [trance]

Doujin:

• 誰かの幸せ (櫻井アンナ; 不思議の国の音哲樂 夢語り篇 {C86}) [vocal]

Vocaloid:

• Hard-Disk Hide and Seek (Avanna; nostraightanswer (Kenji-B); Hard - Disk Hide and Seek) [electronic]