Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Molecular genetic contributions to social deprivation and household income in UK Biobank (n = 112,151)”, Hill et al 2016 (correlation graph)

  • “Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the general population”, Robinson et al 2016

  • “Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs”, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium2013

  • “Genetic variance estimation with imputed variants finds negligible missing heritability for human height and body mass index”, Yang et al 2015

  • “Height, body mass index, and socioeconomic status: Mendelian Randomization study in UK Biobank”, Tyrrell et al 2016

• Recent Evolution:

  • “Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load”, Lynch2016

  • “Older fathers’ children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations”, Arslan et al 2016 (from “The cost of inbreeding in terms of health”)

• Engineering:

  • “Engineering the Perfect Baby”

  • “Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo” (roundup of recent & planned CRISPR applications in animals)

Politics/religion:

• “The Dog Thief Killings”

• “How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan”

• “Legalize It All: How to Win the War on Drugs”

AI:

• “Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering”, Xiong et al 2016

• “Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection”, Levine et al 2016 (video)

• “Generating images with recurrent adversarial networks”, Im et al 2016 (Another nice improvement in the state-of-the-art; getting RNNs working with adversarial training is believed to be pretty tricky.)

• “Deep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN”, Osband et al 2016 (Who’d’ve thought there was a way to combine bootstrapping and deep q-networks?)

• AlphaGo as AI risk example (Inside View beat Outside View 4–1)

Statistics/meta-science:

• “Underreporting in Psychology Experiments: Evidence From a Study Registry”, Franco et al 2015 (previously: Franco et al 2014)

• “Is there a publication bias in behavioral intranasal oxytocin research on humans? Opening the file drawer of one lab”, Lane2016

• How Often Does Correlation=Causation?

  • “Comparison of Evidence of Treatment Effects in Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies”, Ioannidis et al 2001

  • “Comparison of Effects in Randomized Controlled Trials With Observational Studies in Digestive Surgery”, Shikata et al 2006

• “The Scientific Impact of Positive and Negative Phase 3 Cancer Clinical Trials”, Unger et al 2016

• “The Stress Test: Rivalries, intrigue, and fraud in the world of stem-cell research”

Psychology/biology:

• “Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind”, Hofman2015 (plenty of room at the top)

• “What sparked the Cambrian explosion?”

• “‘High’ Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance”, Marie & Zölitz2015 (Dutch natural experiment in selective marijuana ban in a university town)

• “Correlation and Causation in the Study of Personality”, Lee2012

• “State-Space of Drug Effects: Results”

• 2016 Nootropics survey results

Technology:

• “Lessons from 30 Years of MINIX”, Tanenbaum2016

• Heat pipe

• “The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel”

• “Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)”

Economics:

• “Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human Capital Formation”, Beach et al 2016

Fiction:

• “With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens” (creative hermeneutics)

Books

Nonfiction:

• Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, Everett 2009 (on the Pirahã people; review)

• Drugs 2.0, Power (review)

• The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton (review)

• Handbook of Intelligence: Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts (review)

Film/TV

• The Tale of Princess Kaguya (extraordinarily beautiful but enigmatic; my eventual review)

Music

Touhou:

• “Longing of Forest” (ハム; _Re*Collection_ {C89}) [jazz/folk]

• “Doloza (Fires of Hokkai)” (Maurits”禅”Cornelis feat.舞花 & W.nova; Spatial Moving {C89}) [trance]

• “Reawakening ~ ‘second’ chance, for the tenth time or so” (the distant journey to you; untitled {C89}) [postrock]

• “音の瓶詰—神さびた古戦場 ～ Suwa Foughten Field” (ジャム; 守矢幻燈録 ～ Separation of Spirit {R12}) [classical]

• “死霊の夜桜” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]

• “素敵な墓場で暮らしましょ” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]

• “神社の新しい風” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]

• “佐渡の二ッ岩” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]

• “デザイアドリーム” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯＜神＞ ～ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]

Doujin:

• “Magic” (Chroma; Black Magic {C89}) [vocal/Jpop]

• “THE GREAT VOYAGE” (Tenmon; MEMORY OF THE GREEN {C89}) [progressive rock]

• “Sāi-bak-hō (HiRoSYO Remix)” (kamome sano; tatsuta compilation 4 {2015}) [electronic]

Vocaloid

• “Paradox” (Kimkim feat. Miku; MONOPHOBIA {2015}) [electronic]