Links

Everything is heritable:

• Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?, Alford et al 2005 (excerpts)
• Paternal Antisocial Behavior and Sons’ Cognitive Ability: A Population-Based Quasiexperimental Study, Latvala et al 2014 (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:

• Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell
• The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics, Abrahms 2013 (excerpts; Why does terrorism so rarely succeed in policy goals compared to guerrilla warfare, and trigger backfire effects? Because use of terrorist tactics triggers the horns effect; given the same hypothetical, they are perceived as fundamentally hateful, unable to keep negotiated commitments, & intrinsically preferring violence.)
• Blonde cargoes: Finnish children in the slave markets of medieval Crimea
• New poll finds majority of Americans believe torture justified after 9/11 attacks
• Jihadi Radicalization of Muslim Clerics, Nielsen 2012 (excerpts)

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• Framing For Light Instead Of Heat (What do we mean by controlling in statistics and is it what we think it means?)
• Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation, Allcott 2014 (on one reason programs fade out; of particular concern in effective altruism; excerpts)
• Probable Points and Credible Intervals, Part 2: Decision Theory (Bayesian search theory/optimization)
• Bayes’ rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don’t work
• Kalkalash! Pinpointing the Moments The Simpsons became less Cromulent

Psychology/biology:

• Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain, Kotrschal et al 2013 (excerpts; fascinating little experiment - it’s odd the males showed no intelligence gain, and selecting on volume isn’t exactly what you want to select on, but I’d love to see what a larger experiment ran for more generations showed.)
• Clinical outcome of preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing, Tan et al 2014 (excerpts)
• Alexander Shulgin obituary
• Wireheading: Towards a Consumer Market? (excerpts)
• Secrets of the Magus: Ricky Jay does closeup magic that flouts reality

Technology:

• Bitcoin and Me, Hal Finney
• Programming Sucks
• The explosion of No. 5 Blast Furnace, Corus UK Ltd, Port Talbot, 2001 (excerpts)
• The Darkhotel APT: A Story of Unusual Hospitality (cyberwarfare)
• Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress, Nagy et al 2013
• Found on the Web, With DNA: a Boy’s Father
• Tokyo Polytechnic University Publishes Results of VOCALOID Study
• A Linux audio tweak to compensate for hearing loss

Economics:

• A colourful history of progress (the Industrial Revolution, synthetic dyes, and the environment)
• Forget It!, Isaac Asimov (on the benefits of standardization, illustrated by an old practical mathematics textbook.)
• Study of Men’s Falling Income Cites Single Parents (2013)o
• Redistributing from Capitalists to Workers: The Chamley-Judd Impossibility Theorem
• Net benefits: How to quantify the gains that the internet has brought to consumers
• Beware of the survivorship bias: Investors may have developed too rosy a view of equity returns

Philosophy:

• A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop (humor)

Books

Nonfiction:

• Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (see Yvain)
• Spam Nation (review)

Fiction:

• The Fractal Prince & The Causal Angel
• The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq (review)

Film/TV

Anime:

• Hozuki no Reitetsu
• Futakoi Alternative (review)

Music

Misc:

• COME SWEET DEATH,SECOND IMPACT (Shiro Sagisu feat. Megumi Hayashibara; The world EVAngelion JAZZ night =The Tokyo III Jazz club= {2014}) [jazz]

Touhou:

• Extend Ash ~ Hourai Victim (Studio A’; BorderLine {C68}) [instrumental rock]
• Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17 (樋口秀樹; BorderLine {C68}) [instrumental]

Doujin:

• きつねうどん (Kitsune Udon) (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]
• 狐の日記帖 (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]

Kantai Collection:

• Happy Wedding (BubbleRecords; SUMMER AIRCRAFT {C86}) [classical/electronic]
• Goodbye Admiral (BubbleRecords; SUMMER AIRCRAFT {C86}) [trance]

Vocaloid:

• Sadness (Miku? hitsuji; にこにこ {2009}) [progressive rock]
• アマツキツネ (Amatsu Kitsune) (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]
• 天照ラセ (Amaterase) (marasy; Kitsune no Nikkichou {C84}) [classical]
• Helianthus (Gumi; PlantyP; Silent Paradiso -EXTEND- {2013}) [trance]
• Clarity (Planty Arrange) (IA; PlantyP; Silent Paradiso -EXTEND- {2013}) [vocal]