January's readings
Sociology
- The Empathy Gap in Tech
- Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking
- Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband
- China’s selfie obsession
- The Follower Factory
- Examining Trolls and Polarization with a retweet network
- With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culpri
- Forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”
- Black Like Them
- Nineteen Eighty-Four and India’s Severe Case of ‘Aadhaaritis
Science
- Does a burnt piece of toast have the same number of calories as a regular piece of toast?
- What determines the lifespan of a species? Why do humans have such a long lifespan compared to say a housecat?
- Meta-Analysis shows Acute sleep deprivation helps with depression
- For better Science, call off the revolutionaries
- Data from half a million people show that natural selection has not stopped
- Understanding Statistical Power and Significance Testing
Education
Technology/Programming
- Things I Wish I’d Known About Bash
- I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.
- ‘I Forgot My PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin
- Visualizing Algorithms
- Augmenting Human Intellect: A conceptual framework