Links

Genetics:

• everything is heritable:

• recent evolution:

  • “Genetic contributions to variation in human stature in prehistoric Europe”, Cox et al 2019 (phenotyping the graveyard)
  • “How Intelligence Affects Fertility 30 Years On: Retherford and Sewell Revisited—With Polygenic Scores and Numbers of Grandchildren”, Woodley et al 2019

• engineering:

AI:

Statistics/meta-science/mathematics:

• “Inhaling the spore: Field trip to a museum of natural (un)history”, Weschler 1994 (on the Museum of Jurassic Technology)
• “Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact”, Sinatra et al 2016 (no life-cycle effects on most-cited papers)

Politics/religion:

• “Why Men Love War”, Broyles 1984

• T. Greer’s “The Scholar’s Stage” (Greer’s selection):

  • “Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization: The Growth Revolution”

  • “Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Eye for an Eye”

  • “Tradition is Smarter Than You Are”

  • “When Modern War Met an Antique Art”

  • “Radical Islamic Terrorism in Context, part 1”, part 2; “ISIS, the Mongols, and ‘The Return of Ancient Challenges’”

  • “The Cross Section Illusion”

  • Ancient Greece:

    • The Thucydides Roundtable:

      • “Everybody Wants a Thucydides Trap”
      • “Men of Honor, Men of Interest”
      • “History is Written by the Losers”

    • “Pre-Modern Battlefields Were Absolutely Terrifying”

  • China:

    • “The Radical Sun Tzu”
    • “What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), part 1”, part 2
    • “Smallpox on the Steppe”
    • “Meditations on Maoism - Ye Fu’s Hard Road Home”
    • “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit”, “II: Just How Totalitarian is Modern China?”; “Everything is Worse in China”
    • “The Utterly Dysfunctional Belt and Road”
    • “The Inner Life of Chinese Teenagers”

  • America:

    • “Ominous Parallels: What Antebellum America Can Teach Us About Our Modern Political Regime”; “Shakespeare in American Politics”
    • “Awareness vs. Action: Two Modes of Protest in American History”
    • “Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s”
    • “Questing for Transcendence”
    • “America Will Always Fail At Regional Expertise”; “American Policy Makers Do Not Read Books”; “You Do Not Have the People”; “What Cyber-War Will Look Like”

Psychology/biology:

• Structured Procrastination
• “Consider the Lobster: For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that the celebration involves a whole lot more”, David Foster Wallace 2004

Technology:

Economics:

• “Field experiments of success-breeds-success dynamics”, van de Rijt et al 2014 (limits to popularity dynamics: Kickstarter/WP/Change.org/Epinions)

Philosophy:

• “Inverse Law of Scientific Nomenclature”, Yvain (on the Nuwaubian Nation cult; see also Sovereign citizen movement)

Fiction:

Misc:

Books

Nonfiction:

• Robert Bakewell and the Longhorn Breed of Cattle, Stanley 1995

Fiction:

Film/TV

Live-action:

• Tron: Legacy (2010)
• Free Solo (2018; documentary on Alex Honnold)
• The Haunting (1963; https://www.framerated.co.uk/the-haunting-1963/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_at_House_on_the_Hill )

Animated:

• Gosick
• Ushio and Tora?

Games

Music

Touhou:

Vocaloid:

MLP:

Doujin:

Misc: