Flying Saucerers: The Role of Science Fiction and the Occult in the Birth of the UFO Era – The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/05/flying-saucerers-the-role-of-science-fiction-and-the-occult-in-the-birth-of-the-ufo-era/
What’s That Smell You’re Reading? | Science History Institute https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/whats-that-smell-youre-reading
Lost in Math: Beauty != truth | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/lost-in-math-beauty-truth/
Are ‘Learning Styles’ Real? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
Code and Data for the Social Sciences:A Practitioner’s Guide http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml
The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete. Here’s What’s Next. - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/
How science fiction feeds the fuel solutions of the future | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-science-fiction-feeds-the-fuel-solutions-of-the-future
Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
How Psychopaths See the World - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/a-hidden-problem-at-the-heart-of-psychopathy/555335/
Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133
Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anat… https://boingboing.net/2018/02/22/some-free-short-stories-from-s.html
Cloudflare Terminates Servic… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59kgv5/cloudflare-terminates-service-to-the-pirate-bay-of-science
Meet the pirate queen making aca… https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit
I Spent Tw… https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/
Linguistic bots explain why big gr… https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/linguistic-bots-explain-why-big-groups-produce-simple-grammar/
Black Mirror and The History of Science Fiction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A
Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is M… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radical-1970s-group-relevant-science-for-the-people-politics
📚 Finished reading Siddhartha’s Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment by James Kingsland
📚 Finished reading Siddhartha’s Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment – The Neuroscience of Meditation for Focus in the Age of Distraction by James Kingsland
Bad Behavioural Science: Failures, bias and fa… https://jasoncollins.org/2016/05/11/bad-behavioural-science-failures-bias-and-fairy-tales/
Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/
Researchers find oddities in high-profile gender studies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/researchers-find-oddities-in-high-profile-gender-studies/
Why written languages look alike the world over | Science | AAAS http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/why-written-languages-look-alike-world-over
New Zealand’s War on Rats Could Change the World - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/new-zealand-predator-free-2050-rats-gene-drive-ruh-roh/546011/?curator=MediaREDEF
Unusual experiment reveals the power of non-mainstream media | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/unusual-experiment-reveals-the-power-of-non-mainstream-media/
Why philosophy is so important in science education | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-philosophy-is-so-important-in-science-education
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/11/09/2314220/human-mini-brains-growing-inside-rat-bodies-are-starting-to-integrate
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/
How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History‘s Greatest Solar Observers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sunspots-japanese-amateur-astronomer-sun-science
Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html
Watching Hackers in 2017 – what happened to all the anarchy? | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/37873/1/watching-hackers-in-2017-where-did-the-anarchy-go
Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/how-much-for-your-head-unregulated-us-brokers-make-killing-on-donated-bodies/
Here be woodcuts: science, mysticism and early modern memes | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/here-be-woodcuts-science-mysticism-and-early-modern-memes
They end up dominating AI.↵2030: With computer science and applied theology on your resume, you’re already in talks with multiple priests
Modern Meadow Grows Leather in a Lab Without Cows - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/09/modern-meadow-lab-grown-leather/540285/
How Mushrooms Became Magic - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-mushrooms-became-magic/537789/
I‘m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism
Spitting out the Red Pill: Former misogynists reveal how they were radicalised online http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2017/02/reddit-the-red-pill-interview-how-misogyny-spreads-online
A brief history of quantum alternatives | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/a-brief-history-of-quantum-alternatives/
Hypnotic suggestion prevents action, not recognition | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/hypnotic-suggestion-prevents-action-not-recognition/
Ravens ignore a treat in favor of a useful tool for the future | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/ravens-ignore-a-treat-in-favor-of-a-useful-tool-for-the-future/
📚 Finished reading How Great Science Fiction Works by Gary K. Wolfe
At the boundary between chaos and order, order rules (eventually) | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/at-the-boundary-between-chaos-and-order-order-rules-eventually/
Inside the extreme Facebook fandom for old rental VHS tapes http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/07/inside-extreme-facebook-fandom-old-rental-vhs-tapes
Monsters, Marvels, and the Birth of Science - Issue 50: Emergence - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/monsters-marvels-and-the-birth-of-science-rp
Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/lying-hoax-false-fibs-science/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email