--- title: June 2015 News created: 2015-05-27 status: finished previous: /newsletter/2015/05 next: /newsletter/2015/07 confidence: log cssExtension: dropcaps-de-zs backlink: False ... This is the June 2015 edition of [the Gwern.net newsletter](https://gwern.substack.com/ "'Gwern.net newsletter (Substack subscription page)', Branwen 2013"); previous, [May 2015](/newsletter/2015/05 "'May 2015 News', Branwen 2015"). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with [Changelog](/changelog); brought to you by my donors on Gratipay. # Writings - rewrote Gwern.net CSS to be mobile-friendly; should now be readable in an iPhone 6 browser - wrote [two summer poems](/fiction/poem#summer), on earthworms and the rain # Media ## Links **Genetics**: - [Everything Is Heritable]{.smallcaps}: - ["Epidemiology, genetics and the 'Gloomy Prospect': embracing randomness in population health research and practice"](https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/40/3/537/747708), Smith 2011 **Politics/religion**: - ["American Hippopotamus"](https://read.atavist.com/american-hippopotamus) (see also [Lundgren et al 2020](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1915769117 "Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions")/[media](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/science/pablo-escobar-hippos.html "Pablo Escobar's Hippos Fill a Hole Left Since Ice Age Extinctions: Invasive herbivore mammals seem to restore functions missing in some food webs and ecosystems since the Pleistocene era")) - ["The secret joke of Kant's soul"](/doc/philosophy/ethics/2007-greene.pdf), Greene 2007 - ["Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets"](https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_watts09.pdf), 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"](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html) - ["Education, Intelligence, and Attitude Extremity"](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5329e895e4b09fd4786211a3/t/56cb78e3d51cd4c4751d1245/1456175333161/Public+Opin+Q-2014-Makowsky-poq-nfu041.pdf), Makowsky & Miller 2014 - [Macabre Murder Factory Flies Under the Radar](https://neojaponisme.com/2012/12/28/the-year-2012-in-japan/) (on [Sumida Miyoko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_Serial_Murder_Incident)) - ["The Moon: A Propaganda Hoax"](https://phdn.org/archives/revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm); ["On Not Believing In Canada"](https://crookedtimber.org/2012/12/21/the-christmas-sermon-2012-on-not-believing-in-canada/) - ["Post-Apocalit"](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/post-apocalit) **Statistics/AI/meta-science**: - ["The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9Yc7Pp7szcjPgPsjf/the-brain-as-a-universal-learning-machine) - ["The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research"](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165), Freedman et al 2015 - ["An Alternative to Null-Hypothesis Significance Tests: P~rep~"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1473027/ "'An alternative to null-hypothesis significance tests', Killeen 2005"), Killeen 2005 - ["Effect of monthly vitamin D3 supplementation in healthy adults on adverse effects of earthquakes: a randomized controlled trial"](https://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7260.full), 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"](http://blog.sigfpe.com/2012/12/shuffles-bayes-theorem-and-continuations.html) - ["Eyes wide shut: pseudo-placebo effects"](https://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2012/03/eyes-wide-shut.html) **Psychology/biology**: - ["How a Grad Student Uncovered a Huge Fraud"](https://www.thecut.com/2015/05/how-a-grad-student-uncovered-a-huge-fraud.html) - ["Infectious causation of disease: an evolutionary perspective"](/doc/genetics/selection/natural/human/2000-cochran.pdf "'Infectious Causation of Disease: An Evolutionary Perspective', Cochran et al 2000"), Cochran et al 2000 - ["Hunting and Hallucinogens: The use of psychoactive and other plants to improve the hunting ability of dogs"](/doc/psychedelic/2015-bennett.pdf "'Hunting and hallucinogens: The use of psychoactive and other plants to improve the hunting ability of dogs', Bennett & Alarcón 2015"), Bennett & Alarcón 2015 - ["A Pickpocket's Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins"](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/07/a-pickpockets-tale?currentPage=all) - ["The Lying Disease: Why Would Someone Want to Fake a Serious Illness on the Internet?"](https://www.thestranger.com/features/2012/11/21/15337239/the-lying-disease) **Technology**: - ["Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs"](https://blog.regehr.org/archives/861) (see also: people who break software just by being near) - ["What is the largest possible inhabitable world?"](https://aleph.se/andart2/megascale/what-is-the-largest-possible-inhabitable-world/) - ["Incremental Regular Expressions"](http://jkff.info/articles/ire/) **Economics**: - ["The Red and the Black: Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?"](https://jacobin.com/2012/12/the-red-and-the-black/) - ["Robert Murphy's Bet That Inflation Was Just Around the Corner Has Gone Absolutely Horribly Wrong"](https://www.bradford-delong.com/2012/12/when-will-robert-murphy-conclude-that-he-just-does-not-know-what-he-is-doing.html) (and he's going to lose the 2016 bet too...) ## Books **Fiction**: - [[A.E. Housman](!W)]{.smallcaps}: - [_More Poems_](https://web.archive.org/web/20170721145827/https://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/More_Poems) ([review](/review/book#more-poems-housman-1936)) - [_Last Poems_](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7848) - _Additional Poems_ - Nihei's _Biomega_ ([review](/review/anime#biomega)), _Abara_ (even lamer) ## Film/TV **Live-action**: - Alfred Hitchcock's [_Suspicion_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_%281941_film%29) ([review](/review/movie#suspicion)) - [_The Bridge over the River Kwai_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai) ([review](/review/movie#the-bridge-over-the-river-kwai)) **Anime**: - [_Mushishi Zoku Shou_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushishi) ([review](/review/anime#mushishi-zoku-shou)) - [_Barakamon_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakamon) ([review](/review/anime#barakamon)) ## Music **Touhou**: - ["至極真っ当なる驕りと遊戯~竹取飛翔"](https://www.dropbox.com/s/4b2i385a6f32wa2/ibiza-fantasygirlwaryongkangoriginalsoundtrack-%E8%87%B3%E6%A5%B5%E7%9C%9F%E3%81%A3%E5%BD%93%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8B%E9%A9%95%E3%82%8A%E3%81%A8%E9%81%8A%E6%88%AF.ogg) (Ibiza; _Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack_ {C87}) [orchestral] - ["私たちはこれから~廃獄ララバイ"](https://www.dropbox.com/s/1chqopfw5zvbato/cobu-fantasygirlwaryongkangoriginalsoundtrack-%E7%A7%81%E3%81%9F%E3%81%A1%E3%81%AF%E3%81%93%E3%82%8C%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%EF%BD%9E%E5%BB%83%E7%8D%84%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%90%E3%82%A4.ogg) (Cobu; _Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack_ {C87}) [orchestral] - ["灰燼~ラストリモート"](https://www.dropbox.com/s/0fqxfpzi4311oic/cobu-fantasygirlwaryongkangoriginalsoundtrack-%E7%81%B0%E7%87%BC%EF%BD%9E%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88.ogg) (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"](https://www.dropbox.com/s/tlx1x1t5l2qfzqf/cobu-fantasygirlwaryongkangoriginalsoundtrack-%E4%BB%8A%E3%81%93%E3%81%9D%E6%9C%88%E3%81%AE%E6%BA%80%E3%81%A1%E3%82%8B%E6%99%82.ogg) (Cobu; _Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack_ {C87}) [orchestral] - ["STARDUST HERO~恋色マスタースパーク"](https://www.dropbox.com/s/atrevtmyeedlvqk/cobu-fantasygirlwaryongkangoriginalsoundtrack-stardusthero.ogg) (Cobu; _Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack_ {C87}) [orchestral] - ["MIND OF SPACE~千年幻想郷"](https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwywo0klbrbijb0/cobu-fantasygirlwaryongkangoriginalsoundtrack-mindofspace.ogg) (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?"](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ajs3uoydqp4i52c/cobu-fantasygirlwaryongkangoriginalsoundtrack-flanhelpop1496%EF%BC%9F.ogg) (Cobu; _Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack_ {C87}) [orchestral] **Kantai Collection**: - ["Day Battle (Cannons and Torpedoes, Fire!)"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPFONA8ybpw) (Marasy; _Fleet Piano Collection_ {C87}) [classical]