Sociology

• A hypothesis on what forces are aggravating the fragmentation of our cultures.
• Interview of the author of “Why Most Published Research Findings are False” where he shares some ideas on fixing the broken scientific publication.
• How removal of constraints could drastically change human nature

Psychology

• Why managing your emotional state is fundamental to great design.
• Why our kind can’t cooperate. On why rationalists need to coordinate better.
• Seneca’s inspiritational essay “On the Shortness of Life”
• Why people need to stop being so afraid of being average.

Politics

• Why USA needs to honestly identify and highlight different forms of immigration in order to create effective policies.
• A report on how terrorists activities in Europe are funded. Surprisingly, most of them are not helped financially by external sources but self funded instead.
• A short story about a mysterious group called Cicada 3301 and how it tries to lure in some of the best minds

• The Rise and Fall of Silk Road, Part1

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Biology

• Genetic pleiotropy may explain the positive association between high physical activity and mortality. Inheritance of healthy phenotype could be the primary cause for observing longevity, not fitness attitude after maturity.
• Slow but heartening progress in improving the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence(SENS).
• A review discussing Meditation’s benefits in inducing sleep and its positive effects towards related phsyiological states like enhancement of melatonin.
• A summary of theories behind variations in sleep patterns among animals

Education(not in the traditional sense)

• Life is Short. So prune bs and don’t wait on things that matter.
• DanielBMarkham’s reply to AskHN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?
• Marvin Minsky explores kids’ aversion to Maths and offers changes to the system
• Richard Hamming’s popular speech “You and Your Research”