Sociology

• Study concludes that overpopulation won’t be a problem if we start a large-scale biomedical war on aging
• Why do poor white Americans usually end up siding with rich elites?
• Replication index of studies that say “Priming women with a disengaged father increases their willingness to have sex without a condom”.
• Dares, Costly Signals, and Psychopaths. Are dares human universal and if so, what exactly could be their social significance?

Psychology/Biology

• Attention schema theory: a mechanistic account for subjective awareness
• Human consciousness and its relationship to social neuroscience: A novel hypothesis
• Is ego-depletion a replicable effect? Doesn’t seem like it…
• A Framework of Experimental Habit Formation. Why quantifying self is the most useful behavior for self awareness?
• The holy grail of self improvement
• Learning chess at 40
• Nick Lane on energy’s role in origins of life, sex and aging

Technology

• Extracting an argument against copyrights using the concept of compression
• The deep space of digital reading

Philosophy

• Do philosophical zombies make sense? A case against epiphenomenalism
• Leave a line of retreat so you have less trouble retreating. Imagining fearful and uncomfortable scenarios is a useful practice
• The Maximum Good: One Man’s Quest to Master the Art of Donating

Miscellaneous

• The future is bleak: Behind the scenes on the bottom rung of professional tennis
• Programming job interviewing is broken