Febraury's readings
Sociology
- Why were people addicted to Farmville? Similar ideas would apply to all kinds of “boring” sports like cricket, golf, american football etc.
- How Sci-Hub is liberating millions of research papers from the walled garden of academic journals
- Incomplete but interesting ideas on existence of Minimum viable super-organims
- Set of ideas on fixing the broken system of publishing in academia
- Good explanation for people confused about privacy in the latest Apple vs FBI case
Psychology
- Research into psychedelics has resurfaced and its giving fruition to exciting positive outcomes
- In what ways does love resemble an addiction of a drug? Discusses both behavioral and physiological correlations.
Biology
Technology
- Tricks that designers of virtual reality use to deceive the human mind
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Bloom Filters, how do they work and what are they used for? Alternative explanation