Links

Genetics:

• everything is heritable:

  • Novel genome-wide associations for suicidality in UK Biobank, genetic correlation with psychiatric disorders and polygenic association with completed suicide, Strawbridge et al 2018
  • Giant study links DNA variants to same-sex behavior
• recent evolution:

• engineering:

  • Engineering yeast megachromosomes: The story of how we engineered megachromosomes and studied the contribution of chromosome fusion to reproductive isolation among laboratory yeast strains
  • Is Continued Genetic Improvement of Livestock Sustainable?, Hill 2016 (yes)
  • In vitro gametogenesis and reproductive cloning: Can we allow one while banning the other?, Segers et al 2018 (no)

AI:

• Resource-efficient Machine Learning in 2KB RAM for the Internet of Things, Kumar et al 2017
• Towards Deep Modeling of Music Semantics using EEG Regularizers, Raposo et al 2017

Statistics/meta-science/mathematics:

• A Star Surgeon Left a Trail of Dead Patients - and His Whistleblowers Were Punished (organizational incentives & science)
• Information Theory [its early history], Aftab et al 2001 (excerpts on psychology of innovation & computational constraints)
• Poisson clumping (why rare events can happen in clusters even if there is no trend)

Politics/religion:

• Forging Islamic science: Fake miniatures depicting Islamic science have found their way into the most august of libraries and history books. How?
• The Case For Cthulhu, RMP

Psychology/biology:

• Bracing for the Vanilla Boom: Some of Madagascar’s farmers, made wealthy by this year’s vanilla crop, will spend their cash in crazy hot money sprees
• Taxonomy of bragging
• Night Vision: The forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov
• Psychedelic Turk: A Platform for People on Altered States of Consciousness (truly diverse polling or worker groups)
• Human Tails: Ownership and Control of Extended Humanoid Avatars in VR, Steptoe et al 2013

Technology:

• The Great British (Industrial) Bake-Off
• In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate. It’s an Obsession.
• I Believe I Can Fry: How a mild-mannered database analyst became the undisputed king of the fair park fryers - and the master of a heart stopping new culinary movement
• 11 Forgotten Women who Invented the British Industrial Revolution

Economics:

Philosophy:

Fiction:

Misc:

Books

Nonfiction:

• Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Bradshaw 2013 (review)
• Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning, ed Davidson 2010
• Well-Played 3.0, ed Davidson 2011

Fiction:

Film/TV

Live-action:

Animated:

• Ushio and Tora?

Games

Music

Touhou:

Doujin:

Vocaloid:

Misc: