Friday, January 1, 2016

Posts of the Year

There are dozens of others, but I lack the time to post them. Congrats to the winners.

Income Gains for the wealthy versus the rest

Medical Error Became America's Third Largest Cause of Death, And What Can Be Done About It

New Prospects for Eugenics

Gradually and Then Suddenly

The more individuals perceive themselves as “citizens of the world,” the less likely they are to contribute to collective public goods and the more likely to hitch a “free ride” on the contributions of other citizens 

They believe in redistribution: to themselves 

Why I'm sceptical about the idea of genetically inherited trauma   

Thus, participants demonstrated knowledge neglect, or the failure to rely on stored knowledge, in the face of fluent processing experiences 

Questions About the Hegira to Germany  

These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to the degree of fractionalization and polarization

Evolution revolutionized the natural sciences; the social sciences are due now 

As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see

The opportunity cost of war (slightly updated)  

One of their favorite tactics is to masquerade as defenders of the common folk while neatly arranging things behind the scenes so that they can continue to plunder unimpeded

Two leading ecologists say a rapid proliferation of roads across the planet is causing irreparable damage to nature, but properly planned roads could actually help the environment 

Anyway, neither culture nor genetics gets much air time in commentary on the latest events  

TPP would require all TPP countries to allow new financial products and services to enter their economies if permitted in any other TPP countries

Humans differ in paternal investment 

Bloom and Bust by Phillip Longman

Polling on immigration often appears to be all over the place

The Atir-Rosenzweig-Dunning Effect: When Experts Claim to Know the Unknowable




Reddit: Ethical Evidence

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