“Autism As a Disorder of High Intelligence”, Crespi 2016 (Seems to overemphasize the role of common variants and underplay all the severe de novo mutations discovered in autism cases.)
“Preparing for the Possibility of a North Korean Collapse”, Bennett 2013 (I didn’t know many of those details about how the East German collapse was able to go so smoothly, or that Kim Jong-Il had intimidated his subordinates during the ’90s famines with footage of impoverished East German elites.)
“Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection” (Difficulty of a chess endgame position predicts mistakes far better than time constraints or chess ability. Not necessarily surprising—as chess AIs demonstrate, humans only span a fraction of the possible range of objective chess playing ability, so individual human differences in ability won’t matter much.)
Everything is heritable:
“Predicting educational achievement from DNA”, Selzam et al 2016 (supplement; polygenic scores now predict 3.5% of intelligence, 7% of family SES, and 9% of education)
“Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial: Gene-editing technique to treat lung cancer is due to be tested in people in August”
“Genetically-Mediated Associations Between Measures of Childhood Character and Academic Achievement”, Tucker-Drob et al 2016
“The continuing value of twin studies in the -omics era”, van Dongen et al 2012
“Estimate of disease heritability using 4.7 million familial relationships inferred from electronic health records”, Polubriaginof 2016
“Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought” (Coyne commentary)
“Diagnoses in Siblings of Probands With Autism Spectrum Disorders”, Jokiranta-Olkoniemi et al 2016 (see also “Different neurodevelopmental symptoms have a common genetic etiology”, Pettersson et al 2013)
“Autism As a Disorder of High Intelligence”, Crespi 2016 (Seems to overemphasize the role of common variants and underplay all the severe de novo mutations discovered in autism cases.)
“Detecting Genome-wide Variants of Eurasian Facial Shape Differentiation: DNA based Face Prediction Tested in Forensic Scenario”, Qiao et al 2016
“Healthy ageing of cloned sheep”, Sinclair et al 2016
Politics/religion:
“Preparing for the Possibility of a North Korean Collapse”, Bennett 2013 (I didn’t know many of those details about how the East German collapse was able to go so smoothly, or that Kim Jong-Il had intimidated his subordinates during the ’90s famines with footage of impoverished East German elites.)
“Police, Prosecutors and Judges Rely on a Flawed \$2 Drug Test That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars”
“How Successful Was Christianity?”
“Opium Made Easy”
France’s untouchables
“Seeds of Doubt: An activist’s controversial crusade against genetically modified crops”
“Hell is the Absence of God”, by Ted Chiang
“The shadow commander: Qassem Suleimani is the Iranian operative who has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Assad’s war in Syria”
AI:
“Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems”, Taylor et al 2016
“Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection” (Difficulty of a chess endgame position predicts mistakes far better than time constraints or chess ability. Not necessarily surprising—as chess AIs demonstrate, humans only span a fraction of the possible range of objective chess playing ability, so individual human differences in ability won’t matter much.)
“Accelerating Eulerian Fluid Simulation With Convolutional Networks” (neural network all the things)
Statistics/meta-science:
“Preventing future offending of delinquents and offenders: what have we learned from experiments and meta-analyses?”, Mackenzie & Farrington 2015
“Why It Took Social Science Years to Correct a Simple Error About ‘Psychoticism’”
“Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study”, Findley et al 2016 (on result-blind peer review)
“Laplace the Bayesianista and the Mass of Saturn”
“Our Fathers of Old”, Rudyard Kipling
Psychology/biology:
Do Portia spiders have a mind? (commentary)
“The Medical Mystery Behind the Itch”
“United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers”
“New Drug Development: Estimating entry from human clinical trials”, Adams & Brantner 2003
“The Efficacy of Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment: Confirmation From Meta-Analysis”, Lipsey & Wilson 1993 (incidentally, published studies yield mean effects 0.14 SDs larger than unpublished studies.)
“Could Women Be Trusted With Their Own Pregnancy Tests?”
“Breast-feeding the microbiome”
“Dengue fever cases drop 91% in neighbourhood of Piracicaba, Brazil, where Oxitec’s Friendly Aedes were released”
“Genetically Engineering an Icon: Can Biotech Bring the Chestnut Back to America’s Forests?”
“A Cavity-Fighting Liquid Lets Kids Avoid Dentists’ Drills”
Have a nice day
Technology:
“The Slow Winter” (Mickens)
“Helium Dreams: A new generation of airships is born”
“A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names”, Meiklejohn et al 2013
“Liking What You See: A Documentary”, by Ted Chiang
Economics:
“The Emergence of an Informal Health-Care Sector in North Korea”, Soh et al 2016
“The True Story Of The Great Marijuana Crash Of 2011”
“How Interest Rates Were Set, 2500 BC − 1000 AD”
“How America’s Favorite Sports Betting Expert Turned A Sucker’s Game Into An Industry”
“Recycling Eyeglasses Is a Feel-Good Waste of Money”
“Information, Beliefs, and Trading”
“Yet another modest proposal: The Roentgen Standard”
Philosophy:
“Squashed Philosophers”
“SCP-988”
Fiction:
There Is No Anti-Memetics Division, by Sam Hughes
“Seventy-Two Letters”, by Ted Chiang
“Equoid”, by Charles Stross
“Calvin & Muad’dib” (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
“The Death of Bowie Gizzardsbane”, by John Myers Myers (The fall of the Alamo, in alliterative verse.)
“Suminoe Beach”, by Kuramochi Chitose
“Poverty”, by Moon Byung-ran
Sanderson’s First Law
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