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”, Broockman & Skovron 2013 (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: The ‘electrosensitive’ 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”, Stanaway et al 2011

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”, Stove 1991
• “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:re

• “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]