Archive

Highlights

How to Create a Twitter Bot That Posts a Random Daily Article, 12. April 2021
Gender Differences Among Top Performers in Chess, 17. October 2020
In Support of Super-Rich Philanthropy, 15. September 2020
Calfiornia Firefighters and the US prison Industrial Complex, 27. August 2020
Lab Safety and the Origins of Covid-19, 6. August 2020
Can Donating Blood Help Reverse Aging?, 12. June 2020
A Platform For Charity Bets, 14. May 2020
Contact Tracing Apps Are Not Going To Save us, 5. May 2020
Face Masks Work – And How To Make Them Yourself, 30. March 2020
Your Green Electricity Might Not Be As Green As You Think, 16. February 2020
Can the Coronavirus be Stopped through Contact Tracing and Isolation?, 10. February 2020
Cognitive inequality, 28. January 2020
The Pharma Industry is Broken and Medication Should Be Directly Sold To States, 26. January 2020
Phenoptosis – Are We Programmed to Die?, 24. January 2020
Is Planting Trees the Best Way to Fight Climate Change?, 9. January 2020
The Cia and the United Fruits Company (Now Chiquita), 5. January 2020
Why is Everything so Expensive?, 3. January 2020
36C3 Video Recommendations, 30. December 2019
The Donation Matching Fund, 25. December 2019
Podcast Recommendations, 17. December 2019

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2021: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2020: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2019: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

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2023 (2)

21. February - More Is Probably More – Forecasting Accuracy and Number of Forecasters on Metaculus
10. January - Reflections on Wytham Abbey

2021 (19)

17. May - Announcing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Forecasting Challenge
30. April - April 2021 Assorted Links
24. April - Why Nuclear Power Flopped Commercially
12. April - How to Create a Twitter Bot That Posts a Random Daily Article
26. March - Imagine Scientific Author Lists as Film Credits
21. March - Crowd forecasting Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in Europe
18. March - Making Your Own Covid-19 Vaccine at Home
10. March - Data Science and Data Visualization
07. March - Infering Political Orientation From a Single Picture
03. March - Republicans Should Become the Party of the Working Class
14. February - Bottlenecks in the Covid Vaccine Supply Chains
05. February - Effects of Protestantism and Catholicism in Modern Germany
29. January - Gamestop and Wallstreetbets
27. January - Assorted Links 27.01.2021
17. January - You Should (Probably) Sell Your Cryptocurrencies
16. January - Anti-Aging – Overview of the State of the Art
14. January - Assorted Links – January 14th 2021
09. January - 2020 End of the Year Bets Resolved
01. January - Three Months of Crowd-Forecasting Covid-19

2020 (158)

30. December - First Doses First
19. December - Could we Vaccinate Twice as Many People?
17. December - Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan
13. December - Accelerating Vaccine Development
07. December - Comparing Psychotherapy to Cash Transfers
26. November - Crowd-Forecasting the Covid-19 Pandemic
23. November - Giving Tuesday – Maximize the Effect of Your Donations
12. November - Who Should Get a Vaccine and When?
07. November - Replication Markets for Covid-19 Preprints
04. November - How the Virus Spreads
31. October - Using Facial Recognition to Identify Police Officers
28. October - Ten Years of Retraction Watch
21. October - How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
17. October - Gender Differences Among Top Performers in Chess
14. October - Finding Prime Minister Tony AbbotT’s Passport Number on Instagram
09. October - Philosophers Ranked by Their Punk Credentials
05. October - Big if True: Nuclear Fusion
30. September - Data is Not the New Oil
28. September - The Economics of Interstellar Trade
24. September - More Evidence for Vitamin D and Covid
21. September - Debate Motions I Would Have Liked to Set
18. September - A First Step Towards Getting Rid of Universities
15. September - In Support of Super-Rich Philanthropy
12. September - The Secular Religious State
06. September - Get Fit and do Good
31. August - Coal Produces More Radioactive Contamination Than Nuclear Energy
27. August - Calfiornia Firefighters and the US prison Industrial Complex
23. August - Getting Rich For Normal People
19. August - The Environmental Impact of Food
16. August - Family Wealth, Traced Centuries Back
15. August - Using CRISPR to Create More Male Offspring
13. August - Spit, Don’t Rinse. Also Floss.
11. August - A Blog Written by GPT-3
06. August - Lab Safety and the Origins of Covid-19
04. August - Does Tobacco Cause Psychosis?
31. July - It Probably Wasn’t Fake News
29. July - How 70 Research Teams Came To Different Conclusions Based on the Same Data
26. July - Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good in the World?
23. July - Recommendations for Electro Music
22. July - Corona Aid to the Church
20. July - Is Sex Binary?
16. July - This Person Does Not Exist
15. July - The Privilege of Beauty
14. July - The Insanity and Injustice of College Sports
12. July - First Attempts to Reverse Aging in Humans
10. July - 1 Day Sooner
08. July - R Cheat Sheets
06. July - China’s two Currencies
04. July - The Effect of Sci-Hub on Science
01. July - Tax the Rich
30. June - A Map of Univariate Distributions
26. June - Coronavirus – Useful Information
24. June - He Who Must Not Be Named
20. June - Personality Changes Over Time
16. June - Retraction Watch – Tracking Retractions as a Window Into the Scientific Process
12. June - Can Donating Blood Help Reverse Aging?
08. June - Ways to Stop Police Violence
05. June - Should You Take Collegra?
02. June - Coronavirus Vaccines
31. May - Maybe Mass Testing is not a Good Idea
30. May - On Negative Probabilities
28. May - Is Divorce Contagious?
25. May - Tolkien Or Antidepressant?
23. May - Coronavirus and Human Experiments
21. May - On Reversing Aging
19. May - Iran Has A Legal Market Where You Can Sell Your Kidney
16. May - The Relationship between Income and Terrorism
14. May - A Platform For Charity Bets
13. May - Wednesday, 13.05.2020 – Paper: Firms Covered In the Media Experience Trading Momentum
12. May - In Favor Of Contact Tracing Apps
11. May - Monday, 11.05.2020 – Motherhood Penalties Seem To Be Highest For The Well Educated
05. May - Contact Tracing Apps Are Not Going To Save us
02. May - New Bets!
30. April - Thursday, 30.04.2020 – Forecasting CoVid-19 Cases
27. April - The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
25. April - Saturday, 25.04.2020 – How Much Platinum Is There In The World?
22. April - Wednesday, 22.04.2020 – Why Cryonics Isn’t Crazy
21. April - Real Heroes Wear Masks
20. April - Circulatory Migration – Or Why Tighter Border control May Have Led To More Mexican Immigrants To The US
19. April - Sunday, 19.04.2020 – Bill Maher On The ‘Chinese Virus’
18. April - Saturday, 18.04.2020 – What The West Cannot Learn From South Korea
15. April - Thursday, 16.04.2020 – Are Ventilators Overused?
14. April - Tuesday, 14.04.2020 – Maps And Perspectives
12. April - Zoophilia And Moral Judgement
09. April - The World Is Greener Now Than 20 Years Ago
08. April - Why Are Toilet Paper and Groceries Sold Out?
07. April - Tuesday, 07.04.2020 – Billionaire Philantropy
05. April - Sunday, 05.04.2020 – Covid Forces Mass Vaccination Campaigns To a halt
04. April - Saturday, 04.02.2020 – Why Prediction Markets Are Sometimes Bad At Predicting
02. April - Thursday, 02.04.2020 – On Armchair Epidemiology. And On Being Wrong.
31. March - Every Legislation Should Have An Explicit Expiry Date
31. March - Thursday, 31.03.2020 – How To Make Really Good Bread
30. March - Face Masks Work – And How To Make Them Yourself
27. March - Saturday, 28.03.2020 – The Cost Of Thriving
24. March - Tuesday, 24.03.2020 – Face Masks Work
23. March - Monday, 23.03.2020 – How Cars Conquered Cities
22. March - Sunday, 22.03.2020 – Rethinking Aviation
19. March - Thursday, 19.02.2020 – A History Of Global Living Conditions
16. March - Monday, 16.03.2020 – A Very Nice Illustration Of The Effects Of Social Distancing
15. March - Sunday, 15.03.2020 – A Long Term Econ Perspective On Covid-19
14. March - Saturday, 14.03.2020 – The Gender Pay Gap In An Anonymous Online Market
11. March - Wednesday, 11.03.2020 – How To Improve
09. March - Monday, 09.03.2020 – China’s Economic Slowdown And Effects On The Environment
08. March - I’m For Rent Now!
07. March - Saturday, 07.03.2020 – What’s the Best Way To Think About The Spread OF A Pandemic?
05. March - Thursday, 05.03.2020 – Coronavirus and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
04. March - Wednesday, 04.03.2020 – People Born Blind Seem To Be Protected From Schizophrenia
03. March - Tuesday, 03.03.2020 – Captain Joe And The Marvels Of Aviation
02. March - Monday, 02.03.2020 – Are Economists As A Whole Harmful?
01. March - Sunday, 01.03.2020 – Betting On the Reproducibility of Scientific Studies
29. February - Saturday, 29.02.2020 – Did Van Gogh Really Cut Off His Ear?
28. February - Friday, 28.02.2020 – Medicare For All
27. February - Thursday, 27.02.2020 – How Quickly Can China Recover From The Economic Fallout of Coronavirus?
26. February - Wednesday, 26.02.2020 – Why FiveThirtyEight Gave Trump A Better Chance Than Almost Anyone Else in 2016
25. February - Tuesday, 25.02.2020 – Congress Could Give Every American a Pony
23. February - The Laron Syndrome – Some People Are Almost Immune To Cancer And Diabetes
20. February - Thursday, 20.02.2020 – Large Scale Population Movements From Blue To Red States in The US
18. February - Tuesday, 18.02.2020 – Should We Deliberately Infect People With The Corona Virus?
16. February - Your Green Electricity Might Not Be As Green As You Think
14. February - The Tale of the Two Monopolies
13. February - Thursday, 13.02.2020 – How Climate Change Harms The Fossil Fuel Industry
12. February - Wednesday, 12.02.2020 – Catastrophe Bonds and Insuring Pandemics
11. February - Tuesday, 11.02.2020 – Scotland On Track to Reach 100% Renewable Energy in 2020
10. February - Can the Coronavirus be Stopped through Contact Tracing and Isolation?
08. February - Saturday, 08.02.2020 – Why do PISA Results of Immigrant Students Depend so strongly On Country of Origin
06. February - Thursday, 06.02.2020 – Educated Fools
05. February - 05.02.2020 – How Sweden, Britain and the US Bent the Law to Suppress Julian Assange
04. February - Tuesday, 04.02.2020 – Why Companies Abandon The Development of New Antibiotics
02. February - Sunday 02.02.2020 – How US Lawmakers Profited From the 2017 Tax Cuts
01. February - Saturday, 01.02.2020 – Privacy and Private Companies
31. January - Friday, 31.01.2020 – The Distribution Zoo
30. January - Thursday, 30.01.2020 – Can Statisticians Forecast Better than A guy With A Pencil?
28. January - Cognitive inequality
27. January - Monday, 27.01.2020 – Focus on the Right Food to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Not on Eating Local Food
26. January - The Pharma Industry is Broken and Medication Should Be Directly Sold To States
25. January - Saturday 25.01.2020 – Tracking Cell Phone Data
24. January - Phenoptosis – Are We Programmed to Die?
23. January - thursday, 23.01.2020 – Remote Internship at the Happier Live Institute
20. January - Monday, 20.01.2020 – How to Create Disruptive Research Teams
19. January - Sunday, 19.01.2020 – Why Published Science May Systematically Underestimate the Effects of Climate Change
18. January - Saturday, 18.01.2020 – Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics
17. January - R – Two histograms in One Plot
17. January - Friday, 17.01.2020 – What Can You (a Tech Person) Do About Climate Change?
16. January - Thursday, 16.11.2020 – Is Inequality Inevitable?
15. January - Wednesday, 15.01.2020 – Is History of Philosophy Useless?
14. January - Tuesday, 14.01.2020 – Informing The Public by Withholding Information
13. January - Monday, 13.01.2020 – A positive Account of Property Rights
12. January - Sunday, 12.01.2020 – Human Body Temperature Has Decreased in the Last 150 Years
11. January - Saturday, 11.01.2020 – Air Filters May Have Large Educational Gains
09. January - Is Planting Trees the Best Way to Fight Climate Change?
08. January - Wednesday, 08.01.2020 – Online Advertising is a Giant Bubble
07. January - Tuesday, 07.01.2020 – The Effect of Nuclear Explosions on Beer cans
06. January - Monday, 06.01.2020 – List of Things That Can Be Built Closer to a Home Than A Wind Turbine
05. January - The Cia and the United Fruits Company (Now Chiquita)
05. January - Sunday, 05.01.2020 – The Banana Radiation Chart
04. January - Saturday, 04.01.2020 – Scientific Process and Predominant Ideas- The Story of Alzheimer’s Disease
03. January - Why is Everything so Expensive?
01. January - Wednesday, 01.01.2020 – The Tomato Timer

2019 (20)

31. December - Tuesday, 31.12.2019 – Things That Are Accidentally Turing-Complete
30. December - Monday, 30.12.2019 – Maximize Your Blessing
30. December - 36C3 Video Recommendations
29. December - Sunday, 29.12.2019 – Cost Effectiveness of Surgery in Low and Middle Income Countries
28. December - Saturday, 28.12.2019 – Computing with Light: A Neural Network in A Piece of Glass
27. December - Does Christmas Harm the Economy?
27. December - Friday, 27.12.2019 – Greening the Desert
26. December - Thursday, 26.12.2019 – How Mosquitoes Changed Everything
25. December - The Donation Matching Fund
25. December - Wednesday, 25.12.2019 – How to Get Every LaTeX Symbol You Need
24. December - Tuesday, 24.12.2019 – Hacking and Operational Security (German)
23. December - Monday, 23.12.2019 – Where Should I Donate Money to?
22. December - Sunday, 22.12.2019 – How Robust is the t-Test?
21. December - Saturday, 21.12.2019 – why targeted advertising fails so miserably
20. December - Semelparity – Why some animals don’t survive mating season
20. December - Friday, 20.12.2019 – Does Modern Medicine Increase Life Expectancy?
19. December - Thursday, 19.12.2019 – Are Placebos Powerless?
17. December - Podcast Recommendations
13. December - Money and Prostitution in the Animal Kingdom
07. December - Sex Changes in Clownfish