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"

Good article for a general audience on Nick Bostrom and Superintelligence in the latest New Yorker:

The Doomsday Invention

This guy is really passionate about what he's talking about. But in a RSD kinda way, rather than a HappierHuman kind of way. It's still awesome

• Long term desire
• Existential bummer
• The Urge To Merge: Why Do We Crave Intimacy?

This guy is also really passionate:...

• Excuses are for bitches

Seperate:

• impolite escalation - logistically, physically, emotionally or sexual conversation topic

• Bias in Mental Testing, Jensen 1980 (review)
• Drug Interdiction Partnerships, Legal Principles, and Investigative Methodologies for Law Enforcement (review)
• The Master Algorithm (review)

Until the Sea Shall Free Them. Inherently partisan, and I have no real measure of its accuracy, but a compelling narrative that goes some way in expanding to the systemic ways things go wrong, while still very firmly rooted in its single example.

Light, by M John Harrison (based on the first 22%). I'm finding it genuinely hard to read - a bit like The Quantum Thief or The January Dancer, but more so than either of them. I can't yet say it's good per se - in particular the three narrative strands show very little sign of converging at this stake - but it's a striking, provocative experience.

I just read The Flux by Ferrett Steinmetz, the sequel to his novel Flex. Short review: Like its predecessor, The Flux is the literary equivalent of a summer blockbuster film: it doesn't feel like High Art, but it's action-packed, suspenseful, and a heck of a lot of fun. Recommended for anyone looking for a good time; 4 out of 5 stars.

• The Wind-up Girl (review)
• The Great Gatsby (review)

• The Martian (a faithful but very Hollywood depiction of the novel; it is exactly what one would expect upon hearing that The Martian was being turned into a big-budget film starring Matt Damon & Sigourney Weaver, glossy special effects and overwrought soundtrack and all. What is cut from the novel was of no importance.)
• The Great Gatsby (another glossy big-budget Hollywood adaptation; marred by the, thankfully brief, frame story in which Tobey Maguire ascends to heretofore unseen levels of schmarm and schmaltz as the narrator. The novel is so short that it's almost a scene by scene adaptation, and the main directorial choice seems to be to put a heavy emphasis on it happening to be set during the 'Roaring Twenties', so every scene or party is punched up as much as feasible. The narrator doesn't encounter Gatsby when the two are calmly sitting down at a party, but encounters him in the crush of a giant uproariously drunk crowd backlit by fireworks; the narrator cannot lunch with Gatsby at a dusty obscure roadside cafe, but they must lunch in a giant speakeasy with strippers/chorus-line dancers; in spending an afternoon with Tom's mistress & friends, he does not get tipsy on whiskey but he gets falling-down drunk with the half-naked women & popping up champagne bottles to bath in; women are not properly 20's flat-chested but all bare cleavage with pushup bras; Gatsby is not shot offscreen, but rather onscreen shortly after parting from the narrator while rushing to a phonecall he thinks is from Daisy; and so on. This damages the original atmosphere of the book, which conveys the sense of dusty dog days on rural LI in a way the movie does not at all, but I don't think it's a loss; the book is still the book, and it's fine for a movie adaptation to make more of a spectacle of itself and revel in audiovisuals. The party scene makes full use of its latitude. What is more annoying, or perhaps amusing, is noting the hamfisted touches of modernity. For example, the movie chooses to keep the part of the dinner where Tom alludes to Lothrop Stoddard; Fitzgerald brings this up not for being racist, but as part of his character study showing Tom to be pitiable as his athletic career is over & he's starting to realize his lack of worth, and the movie omits any hint of this in order, obviously, to simplify things by casting Tom as The Bad Guy, since of course bad guys must be racist - an edit which reflects the crudity & narrowness of the writers and also really does do harm to the literary qualities of the movie. A less significant, but much more amusing, example would be the attempt to whitewash the Meyers Wolfsheim character; never mind that he is repeatedly identified as Jewish, and that Jews at the time were deeply involved in NY organized crime & the numbers racket and the Wolfsheim character pretty much has to be Jewish or Italian, no, the movie determinedly edits out all uses of the word 'Jewish' from dialogue and goes so far as to cast Wolfsheim using an Indian actor! Because apparently there are no Jewish actors in Hollywood they could use.)
• Back to the Future II

Touhou:

• "Fairy Dance" (Pine Tree feat. Mii; Shinsoku {C86}) [rock]
• "Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea" (Ex-calibur; Knights of Round {C73}) [instrumental rock]

Kantai Collection:

• "昼戦・砲雷撃戦、初め! -ピアノ協奏曲-" (TAM; KanColle Piano Concerto {C88}) [orchestral]

Doujin:

• "homephone TE" (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014}) [electronica]
• "yume" (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014}) [electronica]
• "tsuiraku" (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014}) [electronica]
• "sinwave" (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {2014}) [electronica]
• "handmade" (宮沢もよよ; PLAY {C85}) [electronica]
• "IVY" (Fullkawa-P feat. Utau Kitchen; Girlfriend from Kyoto {2012}) [Jpop]
• "Purl" (ITM; Bayside Dreamer {C88}) [house]
• "Fresh Air" (Lumina; Bayside Dreamer {C88}) [house]

Vocaloid:

• "Crawlers" (Miku; Croissant Chicago, Morning Act {2015}) [Jpop]
• "Osmium" (Avanna; Omega+, Transgalactic Flight {2015}) [trance/electronic]
• "Parades (monaca:factory Hadal Zone Remix)" (Miku; whoo & monaca:factory, VRUSH UP! #05 -whoo Tribute- {2013}) [trance]
• "ice (Guitar/Michael Lueckner Fire+Ice Remix)" (Miku; whoo & Michael Lueckner, VRUSH UP! #05 -whoo Tribute- {2013}) [trance]

This month, Enya's back with Dark Sky Island. The title refers to the British island of Sark, the world's first whole island that freed itself of nighttime light pollution so that people can see the stars.

Escape from chaos - a light instrumental playlist that's good for concentrating and elevating my mood while reducing anxiety

The most awesome song. Awesome possum! It's awesome to win and awesome to lose!

Kiki's Delivery Service SVH ?????? (hope 'I wish') rap remix Dj Day&Go or this or this since it frequently gets removed wherever it's hosted, like the original youtube clip

One vision productions - amazing indigenous hip hop and my favourite song

Affirmation song 'I'm a man in control of my life'

Caught in a hustle - Immortal Technique

This song reminds me to be good. I use to listen to it as a socialist adolescent and teenager. Now I look past that and his leanings towards conspiracy theories and try identify the authenticity, anger, hatred, sadness, self awareness socially consciousness, compassion, passion and mercy in the lyrcist's minds and words as sharing a kind of EA sentiment. I was reminded of this randomly while having a really off day today, without a sense of direction. I haven't listen to it yet. I wanted to see what I remember about it before I do by sharing it here.

Avast fluttershy's ass