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Last week MSU hosted a virtual meeting on Freedom of Speech and Intellectual Diversity on Campus . I particularly enjoyed several of the tal...

The LeFrak Forum On Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy  Department of Political Science  Michigan State University  Register here !   Th...

These new results arose from initial investigations of blood biomarker predictions from DNA. The lipoprotein A predictor we built correlat...

The first three videos below are episodes of Japanese director Takeuchi Ryo's ongoing series on Huawei.  Ryo lives in Nanjing and speaks...

  Excellent interview with David Liu of Harvard, which gives an overview of key innovations in gene editing since the discovery of CRISPR.  ...

  This 1966 documentary on von Neumann was produced by the Mathematical Association of America. It includes interviews with Wigner, Ulam, Ha...

Three videos:  1. Political philosopher Daniel Bell on PRC political meritocracy.  2. Documentary on the 2020 Gao Kao: college entrance exam...

If you have the slightest pretension to expertise concerning social mobility, meritocracy, inequality, genetics, psychology, economics, educ...

  Insights from Ray Dalio and Paul Kennedy (The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, 1987) on the balance of power and future global order. I ...

We live in an era of preference falsification.  Vocal, dishonest, irrational activists have cowed all but the most courageous of the few rem...

  This is a recent interview. Enjoy! In episode 14 of the Psychology Is podcast, we have the special opportunity to talk to Dr. Steve Hsu, a...

  Great discussion and insider views of AI/ML research.  Academics think of themselves as trailblazers, explorers — seekers of the truth.  ...

Greg Clark (UC Davis and London School of Economics) deserves enormous credit for producing a large multi-generational dataset which is rele...

The excerpt below is from Roger Zelazny 's Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969), an experimental novel which is somewhat obscure, eve...

  Othram helps solve another mystery: the identity of a dead Appalachian hiker.  There are ~50k unidentified deceased individuals in the US...

  In case you have not followed the adventures of the Yamnaya (proto Indo-Europeans from the Steppe), I recommend this recent Harvard lectur...

  Even if you disagree violently with the viewpoints expressed in this discussion, it will inform you as to how the rest of the world thinks...

Three AI paper recommendations from a theoretical physicist (former collaborator) who now runs an AI lab in SV. Less than 5 years after leav...

This paper shows that models which result from gradient descent training (e.g., deep neural nets) can be expressed as a weighted sum of simi...

In 2018 Dr. Aarno Palotie visited MSU ( video of talk ) to give an overview of the FinnGen research project. FinnGen aims to collect the gen...

Gerald Feinberg (1933-1992) was a theoretical physicist at Columbia, perhaps best known for positing the tachyon -- a particle that travel...

Afu Thomas is a German internet personality, known for his fluent Chinese, who lives in Shanghai. His videos are extremely popular in China ...

  I came across this panel discussion recently, with Yuri Milner (former theoretical physicist, internet billionaire, and sponsor of the Bre...

Last week we posted a new paper (see bottom), prepared for the book Genomic Prediction of Complex Traits , Springer Nature series Methods i...