Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Epidemiology, genetics and the ‘Gloomy Prospect’: embracing randomness in population health research and practice”⁠, Smith 2011

Politics/​religion:

• “American Hippopotamus” (see also Lundgren et al 2020⁠/​​media)
• “The secret joke of Kant’s soul”⁠, Greene 2007
• “Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets”⁠, Salganik & Watts 2009
• “The Agency: From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid ‘trolls’ has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet—and in real-life American communities”
• “Education, Intelligence, and Attitude Extremity”⁠, Makowsky & Miller 2014
• Macabre Murder Factory Flies Under the Radar (on Sumida Miyoko)
• “The Moon: A Propaganda Hoax”⁠; “On Not Believing In Canada”
• “Post-Apocalit”

Statistics/​AI/​meta-science:

• “The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine”
• “The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research”⁠, Freedman et al 2015
• “An Alternative to Null-Hypothesis Significance Tests: P_rep”⁠, Killeen 2005
• “Effect of monthly vitamin D3 supplementation in healthy adults on adverse effects of earthquakes: a randomised controlled trial”⁠, Slow et al 2014 (if only more people could be this imaginative in thinking about how to run RCTs⁠, and less defeatist)
• “Shuffles, Bayes’s theorem and continuations”
• “Eyes wide shut: pseudo-placebo effects”

Psychology/​biology:

• “How a Grad Student Uncovered a Huge Fraud”
• “Infectious causation of disease: an evolutionary perspective”⁠, Cochran et al 2000
• “Hunting and Hallucinogens: The use of psychoactive and other plants to improve the hunting ability of dogs”⁠, Bennett & Alarcón 2015
• “A Pickpocket’s Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins”
• “The Lying Disease: Why Would Someone Want to Fake a Serious Illness on the Internet?”

Technology:

• “Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs” (see also: people who break software just by being near)
• “What is the largest possible inhabitable world?”
• “Incremental Regular Expressions”

Economics:

• “The Red and the Black: Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?”
• “Robert Murphy’s Bet That Inflation Was Just Around the Corner Has Gone Absolutely Horribly Wrong” (and he’s going to lose the 2016 bet too…)

Books

Fiction:

• A.E. Housman:

  • More Poems (review)
  • Last Poems
  • Additional Poems

• Nihei’s Biomega (review), Abara (even lamer)

Film/TV

Live-action:

• Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion (review)
• The Bridge over the River Kwai (review)

Anime:

• Mushishi Zoku Shou (review)
• Barakamon (review)

Music

Touhou:

• “至極真っ当なる驕りと遊戯～竹取飛翔” (Ibiza; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
• “私たちはこれから～廃獄ララバイ” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
• “灰燼～ラストリモート” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
• “今こそ月の満ちる時～エクステンドアッシュ” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
• “STARDUST HERO～恋色マスタースパーク” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
• “MIND OF SPACE～千年幻想郷” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
• “Flanhelp Op.1-496～U.Nオーエンは彼女なのか？” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]

Kantai Collection:

• “Day Battle (Cannons and Torpedoes, Fire!)” (Marasy; Fleet Piano Collection {C87}) [classical]