Thursday, June 22, 2017

Man as a Rationalist Animal by Lou Keep

Man as a Rationalist Animal by Lou Keep

The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms: Evidence from a Lab in the Field on a Natural Experiment by Elira Karaja and Jared Rubin

The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms: Evidence from a Lab in the Field on a Natural Experiment by Elira Karaja and Jared Rubin

We’ve studied the future of the internet since 2004. Here’s what we’ve learned. by Lee Rainie

We’ve studied the future of the internet since 2004. Here’s what we’ve learned. by Lee Rainie

The FBI’s Briefing On The GOP Baseball Shooting Couldn’t Have Been More Bizarre by Mollie Hemingway

The FBI’s Briefing On The GOP Baseball Shooting Couldn’t Have Been More Bizarre by Mollie Hemingway

The influence of school on whether girls develop eating disorders by Helen Bould, Bianca De Stavola, Cecilia Magnusson, Nadia Micali, Henrik Dal, Jonathan Evans, Christina Dalman and Glyn Lewis

The influence of school on whether girls develop eating disorders by Helen Bould, Bianca De Stavola, Cecilia Magnusson, Nadia Micali, Henrik Dal, Jonathan Evans, Christina Dalman and Glyn Lewis

It’s Not the 1960s: Group Violence in America Is Hard to Pull Off by Jim Geraghty

It’s Not the 1960s: Group Violence in America Is Hard to Pull Off by Jim Geraghty

Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies by Simon Gächter and Jonathan F. Schulz

Intrinsic honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies by Simon Gächter and Jonathan F. Schulz

Why Blockchain Creates A New ‘Architecture of Trust’ by Kevin Werbach

Why Blockchain Creates A New ‘Architecture of Trust’ by Kevin Werbach

Monday, June 19, 2017

Reporting Regression Results Responsibly by Frederick deBoer

Reporting Regression Results Responsibly by Frederick deBoer

We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier by Thomas Winslow Hazlett

We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier by Thomas Winslow Hazlett

Writing beyond the grave by Stuart Kelly

Writing beyond the grave by Stuart Kelly

Lincoln Dinner Address by Theodore Roosevelt

Lincoln Dinner Address by Theodore Roosevelt

Alphabetism: The effects of surname initial and the risk of being otherwise undistinguished by Alexander S. Cauley and Jeffrey S. Zax

Alphabetism: The effects of surname initial and the risk of being otherwise undistinguished by Alexander S. Cauley and Jeffrey S. Zax

The Media Have a Bad Case of the Trumps by Andrew Ferguson

The Media Have a Bad Case of the Trumps by Andrew Ferguson

The Strategy of Terrorism by David Fromkin

The Strategy of Terrorism by David Fromkin

Why I Won't Get a PSA Test for Prostate Cancer by John Horgan

Why I Won't Get a PSA Test for Prostate Cancer by John Horgan

Why Few Americans Use Transit by Randal O'Toole

Why Few Americans Use Transit by Randal O'Toole

Friday, June 16, 2017

Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum? from BBC News

Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum? from BBC News

Burden of Proof by Paul M. Sniderman

Burden of Proof by Paul M. Sniderman

Beast of the Southern Wild by Christopher Kemp

Beast of the Southern Wild by Christopher Kemp

Political Psychology or Politicized Psychology: Is the Road to Scientific Hell Paved With Good Moral Intentions? by Philip E. Tetlock

Political Psychology or Politicized Psychology: Is the Road to Scientific Hell Paved With Good Moral Intentions? by Philip E. Tetlock

Unsinkable by Daniel Mendelsohn

Unsinkable by Daniel Mendelsohn

The uses of disaster: Notes on bad weather and good government by Rebecca Solnit

The uses of disaster: Notes on bad weather and good government by Rebecca Solnit

Think Again: Working Women by Kay Hymowitz

Think Again: Working Women by Kay Hymowitz

The Making of the Obesity Epidemic by Helen Lee

The Making of the Obesity Epidemic by Helen Lee

Words on Trial by Jack Hitt

Words on Trial by Jack Hitt

Listen and Learn by Nathan Heller

Listen and Learn by Nathan Heller

Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early by Benedict Carey

Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early by Benedict Carey

Ancestral history explains roots of income inequality by Putterman and WEil

Ancestral history explains roots of income inequality by Putterman and WEil

Slippery Slopes and Proliferating Prizes by Marc Aronson

Slippery Slopes and Proliferating Prizes by Marc Aronson

The Administration of Things by Ben Kafka

The Administration of Things by Ben Kafka

Concedo, Nego, Distinguo by Stefan Jetchick

Concedo, Nego, Distinguo by Stefan Jetchick

We Aren't the World by Ethan Watters

We Aren't the World by Ethan Watters

Grudging Consent by Charles Tilly

Grudging Consent by Charles Tilly

Income distributions in Americans' pastimes from halhen

Income distributions in Americans' pastimes from halhen

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

The Best Answer to Fanaticism--Liberalism; Its calm search for truth, viewed as dangerous in many places, remains the hope of humanity. by Bertrand Russell

The Best Answer to Fanaticism--Liberalism; Its calm search for truth, viewed as dangerous in many places, remains the hope of humanity. by Bertrand Russell

The Doomsday Invention by Raffi Khatchadourian

The Doomsday Invention by Raffi Khatchadourian

An Essay on Criticism (1711) by Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism (1711) by Alexander Pope

What Does Bias Look Like? by Megan McArdle

What Does Bias Look Like? by Megan McArdle

Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents. by Angela L. Duckworth and Martin E.P. Seligman

Self-discipline outdoes IQ in predicting academic performance of adolescents. by Angela L. Duckworth and Martin E.P. Seligman

The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’ — ideas from the Apollo programme for a ‘systems politics’ by Dominic Cumming

The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’ — ideas from the Apollo programme for a ‘systems politics’ by Dominic Cumming

Unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2(b): the Apollo programme, the Tory train wreck, and advice to spads starting work today by Dominic Cummings

Unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2(b): the Apollo programme, the Tory train wreck, and advice to spads starting work today by Dominic Cummings

The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States: Evidence from the ACS by William N. Evans, Daniel Fitzgerald

The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the United States: Evidence from the ACS by William N. Evans, Daniel Fitzgerald

Eyewitness Memory Is a Lot More Reliable Than You Think by John Wixted, Laura Mickes

Eyewitness Memory Is a Lot More Reliable Than You Think by John Wixted, Laura Mickes

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

My Apostasy From the Church of Critical Theory by Reza Ziai

My Apostasy From the Church of Critical Theory by Reza Ziai

How French "Intellectuals" Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained by Helen Pluckrose

How French "Intellectuals" Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained by Helen Pluckrose

The Dehumanities by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro

The Dehumanities by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro

Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions by David Bierbach, Kate L. Laskowski & Max Wolf

Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions by David Bierbach, Kate L. Laskowski & Max Wolf

Human Self as Information Agent: Functioning in a Social Environment Based on Shared Meanings. by Baumeister, Roy F.; Maranges, Heather M.; Vohs, Kathleen D.

Human Self as Information Agent: Functioning in a Social Environment Based on Shared Meanings. by Baumeister, Roy F.; Maranges, Heather M.; Vohs, Kathleen D.

Unelected bureaucrats are running our lives by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Unelected bureaucrats are running our lives by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Monday, June 12, 2017

Bad Footnotes Can Be Deadly by Daniel Engber

Bad Footnotes Can Be Deadly by Daniel Engber

Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity by Michael Aaron

Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity by Michael Aaron

Quotations from Chairman Powell by Oren Harari

Quotations from Chairman Powell by Oren Harari

Where Is Fertility Low, and Since When? by Lyman Stone

Where Is Fertility Low, and Since When? by Lyman Stone

How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News by Chris Quintana

How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News by Chris Quintana

Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is by Christie Aschwanden

Leaving Social Media Taught Me How Broken The News Cycle Is by Christie Aschwanden

California’s descent to socialism by Joel Kotkin

California’s descent to socialism by Joel Kotkin

Friday, June 9, 2017

Battery storage: The next disruptive technology in the power sector by David Frankel and Amy Wagner

Battery storage: The next disruptive technology in the power sector by David Frankel and Amy Wagner

The Geography of Family Differences and Intergenerational Mobility by Tyler Cowen

The Geography of Family Differences and Intergenerational Mobility by Tyler Cowen

Moneyball for Real Estate by Steve Sailer

Moneyball for Real Estate by Steve Sailer

Why Sacrifices by the Rich Won't Fix Social Welfare by Tyler Cowen

Why Sacrifices by the Rich Won't Fix Social Welfare by Tyler Cowen

The Disinvestment hypothesis: Don’t blame state budget cuts for rising tuition at public universities by Jason Delisle

The Disinvestment hypothesis: Don’t blame state budget cuts for rising tuition at public universities by Jason Delisle

Friday, June 2, 2017

You and Your Research by Richard Hamming

You and Your Research by Richard Hamming

2017: What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Know? by Helena Cronin

2017: What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Know? by Helena Cronin

The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach by Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis

The Anatomy of Motivation: An Evolutionary-Ecological Approach by Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis

The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning: Evidence from Uruguay by Gioia de Melo, Alina Machado, and Alfonso Miranda

The Impact of a One Laptop per Child Program on Learning: Evidence from Uruguay by Gioia de Melo, Alina Machado, and Alfonso Miranda

The Amazing Arrogance of the Paris Climate Agreement by Jeffrey A. Tucker

The Amazing Arrogance of the Paris Climate Agreement by Jeffrey A. Tucker

Thursday, June 1, 2017

What You're Missing When You Work From Home by Megan McArdle

What You're Missing When You Work From Home by Megan McArdle

Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation? by Dan Wang

Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation? by Dan Wang

Why we should love null results by Anne Scheel

Why we should love null results by Anne Scheel

Classical Liberalism in China: Some History and Prospects by Xingyuan Feng, Weisen Li, and Evan W. Osborne

Classical Liberalism in China: Some History and Prospects by Xingyuan Feng, Weisen Li, and Evan W. Osborne

Has the Democratic Party Gotten Too Rich for Its Own Good? by Thomas B. Edsall

Has the Democratic Party Gotten Too Rich for Its Own Good? by Thomas B. Edsall

Notes of a Reformed News Weasel: Understanding the Vacuity by Fred Reed

Notes of a Reformed News Weasel: Understanding the Vacuity by Fred Reed