Links

Everything is heritable:

• Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (n=53949), Davies et al 2015 (excerpts)
• Genetic influence on family socioeconomic status and children’s intelligence, Trzaskowski et al 2014 (excerpts)
• Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication, Montague et al 2014 (commentary; complex behavioral traits can be modified by relatively small shifts in many genes)

Politics/religion:

• What Politicians Believe About Their Constituents: Asymmetric Misperceptions and Prospects for Constituency Control (excerpts)
• The Deflationist: How Paul Krugman found politics/Paul Krugman Is Brilliant, but Is He Meta-Rational?
• Father, Son and the Double Helix (Gender politics of maternity/paternity DNA testing in India.)
• Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough
• North Korean border guards prefer married women? (commentary)

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• 50 Years of Deep Learning and Beyond: an Interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber
• Interpreting observational studies: why empirical calibration is needed to correct p-values, Schuemie et al 2012 (excerpts)
• Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing: The Choice of a Null Hypothesis, Efron 2004

Psychology/biology:

• The Trip Treatment: Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results
• Intelligence: Is it the epidemiologists’ elusive fundamental cause of social class inequalities in health?, Gottfredson 2004 (excerpts)
• Low-dose paroxetine exposure causes lifetime declines in male mouse body weight, reproduction and competitive ability as measured by the novel organismal performance assay, Gaukler et al 2015 (excerpts)
• There is Only Awe (on Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory)
• A Novel BHLHE41 Variant is Associated with Short Sleep and Resistance to Sleep Deprivation in Humans, Pellegrino et al 2014
• Refugees of the Modern World: Theelectrosensitive" are moving to a cellphone-free town. But is their disease real?“
• How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over

Technology:

• If the NSA has been hacking everything, how has nobody seen them coming?
• Freedom Zero (In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end.)
• The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator, Visionary and Genius
• Project Iceworm
• The Postmodern Ponzi Scheme: Empirical Analysis of High-Yield Investment Programs, Moore 2012 (excerpts)
• Reed Richards Is Useless

Economics:

• Automation and Employment, Richard Posner
• Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should?
• Brickyard Blues: Numbed by cold, pelted by rain, enduring smashed fingers and toes, poorly paid brick salvagers keep coming back for more
• How the recession turned middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs

Philosophy:

• What is Wrong with Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo
• Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke

Misc:

• A History of Tug-of-War Fatalities

Books

Nonfiction:

• Life in Our Phage World (review)
• Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (website; review)
• Peopleware
• Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History (review)
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• Theological Incorrectness: Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn’t, Slone (review)
• Japan Edge: The Insider’s Guide to Japanese Pop Subculture

Fiction:

• Palimpsests, Scholz & Harcourt

Film/TV

Live-action:

• Dead Birds
• A State of Mind

Anime:

• Cowboy Bebop

Music

Misc:

• Lufthan (Magyar Posse; We Will Carry You Over The Mountains) [postrock]
• Sobe(Original Mix) (Jordan F) [electronic]

Doujin:

• 秋桜の終わりの季節によせる抒情詩〜ピアノとオーケストラのために〜 (masaki kawasaki; AD:PIANOⅢ {C87}) [electronic/instrumental]
• Too much for a nightcap (Casket; Musicatlas P. II {M3-34}) [Celtic]
• Home (Kaname Shigeyoshi; AD:PIANOⅢ {C87}) [instrumental]
• Sicureada (ジャージと愉快な仲間たち; Musicatlas P. II {M3-34}) [folk]
• 満たされた時 (もふ@ feat. In The Blue; merrow -in the blue Vocal Collection- {M3-34}) [vocal]

Touhou:

• Wanna be free (Rei Shimizu; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]
• Brilliant Girls (Okawa Tomoya; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]
• 地獄でお茶を (sisimai-3go; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]
• The Eternal Steam Engine (あきやまうに; Thermonuclear Titan Hisoutensoku ~ Touhou Hisoutensoku ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK {C77}) [orchestral]
• The Eternal Steam Engine (Kou Ogata; 東方Projectごちゃまぜアイリッシュ風プレ版楽曲CD {R10}) [folk]
• Temperature Difference (deitarabotchi feat. senya; The time my thoughts turned into history {C87}) [electronic]
• Viva Evolution Introduction (sumijun feat. 長尾ちえみ; Viva Evolution {C87}) [Jpop/electronic]
• Don’t let you down (sumijun feat. 長尾ちえみ; Viva Evolution {C87}) [Jpop/electronic]