Medicine:
“Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?” (Gary Taubes, 2007)
“The End of Food: Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?” (Soylent)
Low-dose aspirin for mortality reduction revisited
Creatine self-experiment
Economics:
“SSC Gives A Graduation Speech” (on the value of college and alternatives)
“What You Should Know About Megaprojects and Why: An Overview”, Flyvbjerg 2014 (excerpts)
“Why Do Firms Buy Ads?” (advertising requires impossibly large sample sizes for meaningful results)
“The Business Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists: Why Terror Masterminds Rely on Micro-Management”
Inferring nuclear bomb components from stock market returns
The Sewing Machine Patent Wars
Politics:
“Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War”, Jones & Olken 2007 (excerpts)
“The Borgias vs Borgia: Faith and Fear (accuracy in historical fiction)”
“800 Years Of Human Sacrifice In Kent”
“King of Fearmongers: Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, scaring donors since 1971”
“BUGGER: maybe the real state secret is that spies aren’t very good at their jobs”
“Beyond the One Percent: Categorizing Extreme Elites”
“free speech rights and ability”
“Exploring Elitist Democracy: The Latest from Gilens and Page”
Psychology:
“Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities”
Many Labs project published
“Slow Ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?”
“New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith: First systematic analysis of its kind even proposes reasons for the negative correlation”
Biases in grocery shopping
Philosophy:
“Don’t Fear the (Great) Filter”
“Humans are Utility Monsters”
“Universal Library”, by W.O. Quine
Literature:
“Sand Kings”, GRRM
“The Island”, Peter Watts
“Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day”, Delmore Schwartz
“Fermat’s Last Stand: Soundtrack and Adventure Log”
Parable of the Unjust Steward
Thanks for filling up my Pocket queue!
Medicine:
“Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?” (Gary Taubes, 2007)
“The End of Food: Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?” (Soylent)
Low-dose aspirin for mortality reduction revisited
Creatine self-experiment
Economics:
“SSC Gives A Graduation Speech” (on the value of college and alternatives)
“What You Should Know About Megaprojects and Why: An Overview”, Flyvbjerg 2014 (excerpts)
“Why Do Firms Buy Ads?” (advertising requires impossibly large sample sizes for meaningful results)
“The Business Habits of Highly Effective Terrorists: Why Terror Masterminds Rely on Micro-Management”
Inferring nuclear bomb components from stock market returns
The Sewing Machine Patent Wars
Politics:
“Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War”, Jones & Olken 2007 (excerpts)
“The Borgias vs Borgia: Faith and Fear (accuracy in historical fiction)”
“800 Years Of Human Sacrifice In Kent”
“King of Fearmongers: Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center, scaring donors since 1971”
“BUGGER: maybe the real state secret is that spies aren’t very good at their jobs”
“Beyond the One Percent: Categorizing Extreme Elites”
“free speech rights and ability”
“Exploring Elitist Democracy: The Latest from Gilens and Page”
Psychology:
“Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities”
Many Labs project published
“Slow Ideas: Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?”
“New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith: First systematic analysis of its kind even proposes reasons for the negative correlation”
Biases in grocery shopping
Philosophy:
“Don’t Fear the (Great) Filter”
“Humans are Utility Monsters”
“Universal Library”, by W.O. Quine
Literature:
“Sand Kings”, GRRM
“The Island”, Peter Watts
“Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day”, Delmore Schwartz
“Fermat’s Last Stand: Soundtrack and Adventure Log”
Parable of the Unjust Steward
Thanks for filling up my Pocket queue!