Science Some thoughts on whether intelligence is linked to anxiety and depression Cory Doctorow

bongbong Not all CDB drops are created equal: I found the best Matt Maranian

twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow

psychology The Decoy Effect, a psychological trick that can influence what you buy and who you vote for David Pescovitz

AI Watch neural-net racing cars learn to drive Rob Beschizza

web theory Reddit's wonderful "Change My View" forum launches its own independent website Cory Doctorow

computer revolution On re-reading Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine Mark Frauenfelder

scholarship Regardless of political affiliation, over-65s are most likely to share "fake news" (and there's not much fake news, and it's largely right-wing) Cory Doctorow

Science Germany's scientific texts were made free during and after WWII; analyzing them today shows the negative effect of paywalls on science Cory Doctorow

NASA How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record Ron Barry

magic Teller on how magicians "alter your perceptions" Cory Doctorow

meetings MIT Media Lab director has a good idea for "partial attention" meetings Mark Frauenfelder

podcasts Questioning the nature of reality with cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman David McRaney

scholarship Github patches from women who don't reveal their gender more likely to be accepted than patches from identifiable women Cory Doctorow

publishing What publishers should do David Moldawer

happy mutants Ta-Nehisi Coates wins a 2015 MacArthur Genius award Cory Doctorow

yanss Monkeys, money, and the primate origins of human irrationality David McRaney

gender An algorithm to figure out your gender Glenn Fleishman