Thursday, April 21, 2016

How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm by Conor Friedersdorf

How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm by Conor Friedersdorf

Foxes That Endure Despite a Lack of Genetic Diversity by Carl Zimmer

Foxes That Endure Despite a Lack of Genetic Diversity by Carl Zimmer

The Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster from Emerging Technology from the arXiv

The Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster from Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Audience Profiles: Who Actually Reads The New York Times, Watches Fox News, And Other News Publications And Channels? by Lisa Mahapatra

Audience Profiles: Who Actually Reads The New York Times, Watches Fox News, And Other News Publications And Channels? by Lisa Mahapatra

New Land, Expansionism, and Affordability by Lyman Stone

New Land, Expansionism, and Affordability by Lyman Stone

The Personality of Academic Majors by Anna Vedel

The Personality of Academic Majors by Anna Vedel

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

White Privilege Conference Too Privileged? by Emily Zanotti

White Privilege Conference Too Privileged? by Emily Zanotti

The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans by Neal Gabler

The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans by Neal Gabler

Vikings may have first taken to seas to find women, slaves by Andrew Lawler

Vikings may have first taken to seas to find women, slaves by Andrew Lawler

The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink by Harry Wallopp

The day I tried to match Churchill drink for drink by Harry Wallopp

Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite by Samuel P. Huntington

Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite by Samuel P. Huntington

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Back to Bedlam by Heather Mac Donald

Back to Bedlam by Heather Mac Donald

The Climate Wars Get Ugly by Richard A. Epstein

The Climate Wars Get Ugly by Richard A. Epstein

The Program Era: A cultural history looks at how word processing changed the way we write by Eric Banks

The Program Era: A cultural history looks at how word processing changed the way we write by Eric Banks

Creativity Is Much More Than 10,000 Hours of Deliberate Practice by Scott Barry Kaufman

Creativity Is Much More Than 10,000 Hours of Deliberate Practice by Scott Barry Kaufman

Big Science is broken by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Big Science is broken by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust by Jim Rutenberg

For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust by Jim Rutenberg

Getting facts right key to Americans' trust in media by Carole Feldman and Emily Swanson

Getting facts right key to Americans' trust in media by Carole Feldman and Emily Swanson

Friday, April 15, 2016

Facebook Has Seized the Media, And That's Bad News for Everyone But Facebook by Julia Greenberg

Facebook Has Seized the Media, And That's Bad News for Everyone But Facebook by Julia Greenberg

Facebook is watching and tracking you more than you probably realize by Kim Komando

Facebook is watching and tracking you more than you probably realize by Kim Komando

The Secret Rules of the Internet by Catherine Buni & Soraya Chemaly

The Secret Rules of the Internet by Catherine Buni & Soraya Chemaly

Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency by Michael Nunez

Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency by Michael Nunez

A Hippie Discovers Economics, And You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next! by Robert Tracinski

A Hippie Discovers Economics, And You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next! by Robert Tracinski

Sex-Selection Abortion: The Real War on Women by Anna Higgins

Sex-Selection Abortion: The Real War on Women by Anna Higgins

Less Marriage, More Inequality by W. Bradford Wilcox and Anna Sutherland

Less Marriage, More Inequality by W. Bradford Wilcox and Anna Sutherland

Location Data on Two Apps Enough to Identify Someone, Says Study by Kim Martineau

Location Data on Two Apps Enough to Identify Someone, Says Study by Kim Martineau

Monday, April 11, 2016

Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime by Glenn Reynolds

Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime by Glenn Reynolds

Despite Unrest, Blacks Do Not Feel More Mistreated by Police by Frank Newport

Despite Unrest, Blacks Do Not Feel More Mistreated by Police by Frank Newport

How Does A Speaker of the House Amass Personal Wealth? by Jeffrey Carter

How Does A Speaker of the House Amass Personal Wealth? by Jeffrey Carter

America’s federal immigration system fails but one state succeeds by Matt A. Mayer

America’s federal immigration system fails but one state succeeds by Matt A. Mayer

Now the Students at Stanford University Are Making Demands on the Administration. Well, Sort Of. by Chris Martin

Now the Students at Stanford University Are Making Demands on the Administration. Well, Sort Of. by Chris Martin

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age by Hannah Anderson and Matt Daniels

Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age by Hannah Anderson and Matt Daniels

ISIR 2015 Invited Address by Paul Sackett & Nathan Kuncel

ISIR 2015 Invited Address by Paul Sackett & Nathan Kuncel

Can Universal Screening Increase the Representation of Low Income Minority Students in Gifted Education by David Card and Laura Giuliano

Can Universal Screening Increase the Representation of Low Income Minority Students in Gifted Education by David Card and Laura Giuliano

Campuses are places for open minds – not where debate is closed down by Jonathan Haidt and Nick Haslam

Campuses are places for open minds – not where debate is closed down by Jonathan Haidt and Nick Haslam

The rich marrying the rich makes the income gap worse, but it's not our biggest problem by Richard V. Reeves

The rich marrying the rich makes the income gap worse, but it's not our biggest problem by Richard V. Reeves

De-Policing by Stephen Rushin and Griffin Sims Edwards

De-Policing by Stephen Rushin and Griffin Sims Edwards

White City: The New Urban Blight is Rich People by Alexander Nazaryan

White City: The New Urban Blight is Rich People by Alexander Nazaryan

One billionaire moves south — and New Jersey's budget falls apart by Lucy Schouten

One billionaire moves south — and New Jersey's budget falls apart by Lucy Schouten

Thursday, April 7, 2016

For New Parents, Dad May Be The One Missing The Most Sleep by Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham

For New Parents, Dad May Be The One Missing The Most Sleep by Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham

Stuff Business People Say from Avaya

Stuff Business People Say from Avaya

Stephen Fry on Political Correctness and Clear Thinking Interview

Stephen Fry on Political Correctness and Clear Thinking Interview

Give sorrow words by Kevin D. Williamson

Give sorrow words by Kevin D. Williamson

Gender Diversity Doesn’t Boost Corporate Profits by Walter Russell Mead

Gender Diversity Doesn’t Boost Corporate Profits by Walter Russell Mead

John Stuart Mill on the Sources of Prejudice About What Other People Should Do by Miles Kimball

John Stuart Mill on the Sources of Prejudice About What Other People Should Do by Miles Kimball

Exhibiting Bias: Radical environmentalists want museums to stop taking donations from conservatives by John Tierney

Exhibiting Bias: Radical environmentalists want museums to stop taking donations from conservatives by John Tierney

Three’s a crowd: The instability that stems from trilemmas from The Economist

Three’s a crowd: The instability that stems from trilemmas from The Economist

Sharia Villages: Bosnia's Islamic State Problem by Walter Mayr

Sharia Villages: Bosnia's Islamic State Problem by Walter Mayr

Feminists have abortion wrong, Trump and Hillary miscues highlight a frozen national debate by Camille Paglia

Feminists have abortion wrong, Trump and Hillary miscues highlight a frozen national debate by Camille Paglia

Researchers Crack Open the Mysterious Plain of Jars by Jason Daley

Researchers Crack Open the Mysterious Plain of Jars by Jason Daley

Books to Have and to Hold by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Books to Have and to Hold by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Donald Trump and America’s Post-constitutional Politics by Fred Siegel

Donald Trump and America’s Post-constitutional Politics by Fred Siegel

Donald Trump is the beta test of a cure for The Revolt of the Elites by Stephen Bainbridge

Donald Trump is the beta test of a cure for The Revolt of the Elites by Stephen Bainbridge

Don't be fooled - Elon Musk's electric cars aren't about to save the planet by Bjorn Lomborg

Don't be fooled - Elon Musk's electric cars aren't about to save the planet by Bjorn Lomborg

When Did the U.S. Repeal the Laws of Supply and Demand? by A. Barton Hinkle

When Did the U.S. Repeal the Laws of Supply and Demand? by A. Barton Hinkle

What life is like after police ransack your house and take ‘every belonging’ — then the charges are dropped by Christopher Ingraham

What life is like after police ransack your house and take ‘every belonging’ — then the charges are dropped by Christopher Ingraham

Kim Kardashian Needs To Learn That Public Nudity Isn’t Empowering by Carol Anne Kemp

Kim Kardashian Needs To Learn That Public Nudity Isn’t Empowering by Carol Anne Kemp

Monday, April 4, 2016

Racial Ratios by Steve Sailer

Racial Ratios by Steve Sailer

Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? by Robert Lee Hotz

Can Handwriting Make You Smarter? by Robert Lee Hotz

Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics over 700 Years from MIT Technology Review

Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics over 700 Years from MIT Technology Review

Massive leak exposes how the wealthy and powerful hide their money by Kevin G. Hall and Marisa Taylor

Massive leak exposes how the wealthy and powerful hide their money by Kevin G. Hall and Marisa Taylor

Crowd Source: Inside the company that provides fake paparazzi, pretend campaign supporters, and counterfeit protesters by Davy Rothbart

Crowd Source: Inside the company that provides fake paparazzi, pretend campaign supporters, and counterfeit protesters by Davy Rothbart

The sublime narcissism of getting offended on other people’s behalf by Frederik deBoer

The sublime narcissism of getting offended on other people’s behalf by Frederik deBoer

The Breathless Rhetoric (and Prosaic Economics) of Virtual Reality by David Sax

The Breathless Rhetoric (and Prosaic Economics) of Virtual Reality by David Sax

The Real Victims of Political Bias on Campus by Megan McArdle

The Real Victims of Political Bias on Campus by Megan McArdle

Campuses Can't Become One Big 'Safe Space' by Megan McArdle

Campuses Can't Become One Big 'Safe Space' by Megan McArdle

How the Media Got a Study About Vegetarianism Really, Really Wrong by Kaleigh Rogers

How the Media Got a Study About Vegetarianism Really, Really Wrong by Kaleigh Rogers

Colleges have become hypersensitive to racial prejudice. Why not anti-Semitism? by Larry Summers

Colleges have become hypersensitive to racial prejudice. Why not anti-Semitism? by Larry Summers

Talk of censorship backfires for Erdogan, Obama and anti-Trumpers by Glenn Reynolds

Talk of censorship backfires for Erdogan, Obama and anti-Trumpers by Glenn Reynolds

We’ll only halt the far right in Europe if we get tough on terror and migration by Natalie Nougayrède

We’ll only halt the far right in Europe if we get tough on terror and migration by Natalie Nougayrède

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data by Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer

Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data by Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer

Using the IAT to Predict Ethnic and Racial Discrimination:Small Effect Sizes of Unknown Societal Significance by Frederick L. Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard and Philip E. Tetlock

Using the IAT to Predict Ethnic and Racial Discrimination:Small Effect Sizes of Unknown Societal Significance by Frederick L. Oswald, Gregory Mitchell, Hart Blanton, James Jaccard and Philip E. Tetlock

The Great Gatsby Curve: All heat, no light by Scott Winship

The Great Gatsby Curve: All heat, no light by Scott Winship

Does America Have Less Economic Mobility? Part 3 by Scott Winship

Does America Have Less Economic Mobility? Part 3 by Scott Winship

The Great Gatsby Curve Revisited: Part 1 by Donald Schneider and Scott Winship

The Great Gatsby Curve Revisited: Part 1 by Donald Schneider and Scott Winship

These books won’t change your life by John Westenberg

These books won’t change your life by John Westenberg

Investigating the Minds of Mass Killers by Benedict Carey

Investigating the Minds of Mass Killers by Benedict Carey

View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America by Ralph Blumenthal

View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America by Ralph Blumenthal