Everything is heritable:
“Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence” (commentary)
“Political Attitudes Develop Independently of Personality Traits”, Hatemi & Verhulst 2015
Politics/religion:
“‘Ethics’ is advertising”, “The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield” (“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees...”, “organisms are adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers”)
“The Cost of Crime to Society: New Crime-Specific Estimates for Policy and Program Evaluation”
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
“A New, Life-or-Death Approach to Funding Heart Research”
“Magnesium l-threonate/Magtein: publication bias in its human trials”
“Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks”
“Page Weight Matters” (Simpson’s paradox: when a better treatment—faster YouTube page loads—makes aggregate numbers worse—average latency goes up)
Psychology/biology:
“Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry”, Markram et al 2015 (media)
“Synchronizing education to adolescent biology: ‘let teens sleep, start school later’”, Kelley et al 2014:
“Evolution of the human brain: when bigger is better”, Hofman 2014
“When Evolution Is Infectious”
Charles Bonnet syndrome (10-40% of blind people can experience vivid complex visual hallucinations; they just don’t ever talk about it.)
“The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1: Sword wounds and the circulatory system”
Dealing with a mercury spill
Technology:
“Crush Point: When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe?”
Economics:
“Ghost Babies”
“Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?”, McLean & Pontiff 2015
Philosophy:
“The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias”
“Growing a Language”, Steele 1998
Fiction:
“It Was You Who Made My Eyes Blue”
“Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry”
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Everything is heritable:
“Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence” (commentary)
“Political Attitudes Develop Independently of Personality Traits”, Hatemi & Verhulst 2015
Politics/religion:
“‘Ethics’ is advertising”, “The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield” (“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees...”, “organisms are adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers”)
“The Cost of Crime to Society: New Crime-Specific Estimates for Policy and Program Evaluation”
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
“A New, Life-or-Death Approach to Funding Heart Research”
“Magnesium l-threonate/Magtein: publication bias in its human trials”
“Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks”
“Page Weight Matters” (Simpson’s paradox: when a better treatment—faster YouTube page loads—makes aggregate numbers worse—average latency goes up)
Psychology/biology:
“Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry”, Markram et al 2015 (media)
“Synchronizing education to adolescent biology: ‘let teens sleep, start school later’”, Kelley et al 2014:
“Evolution of the human brain: when bigger is better”, Hofman 2014
“When Evolution Is Infectious”
Charles Bonnet syndrome (10-40% of blind people can experience vivid complex visual hallucinations; they just don’t ever talk about it.)
“The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1: Sword wounds and the circulatory system”
Dealing with a mercury spill
Technology:
“Crush Point: When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe?”
Economics:
“Ghost Babies”
“Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?”, McLean & Pontiff 2015
Philosophy:
“The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias”
“Growing a Language”, Steele 1998
Fiction:
“It Was You Who Made My Eyes Blue”
“Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry”