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This morning I attended an excellent talk : Adaptive Evolution of Gene Expression (see paper and video below), by Hunter Fraser of Stanford...

Earlier this week I was in DC for a Council on Competitiveness meeting of CTOs and university VPRs. The figure below, from this report card...

Looks like an interesting new magazine: JSTOR Daily provides insight, commentary, and analysis of ideas, research, and current events, tapp...

Discussion of the Chinese role in the recent bubble (also, use of ASICs for mining) starting @15min or so. E-payment situation (Alipay, W...

I highly recommend The Hollow Men II: Some reflections on Westminster and Whitehall dysfunction by Dominic Cummings . It is full of insight...

How good is high school talent scouting for football? The star system used in college recruiting seems to have good validity in predicting...

At the kickoff of the $1.5 billion Michigan State University capital campaign. My co-presenter is a Rhodes Scholar candidate on the MSU swim...

A short story by Hugo and Nebula winner Ted Chiang . See also A Modern Borges? and Genius (Nautilus magazine article). The Evolution of ...

Let me know if you're in SD and want to meet up! Yaniv Erlich is talking about additivity vs epistasis right now :-)

Facebook and Apple to offer oocyte cryopreservation in benefits package. See also Lean in, freeze eggs . New Yorker : ... Earlier this ...

The article excerpted below, in the science magazine Nautilus, is an introduction to certain ideas from my paper On the genetic archite...

This podcast is an excellent discussion of some foundational questions in economics and human behavior, as explored in the work of Adam Smit...

Good evening, everyone. Let me add my sincere congratulations to those you’ve already heard tonight. Tenure at a great research unive...

Archival work reveals that Hannah Arendt ( Eichmann in Jerusalem ) and many other observers were fooled by Eichmann during his trial. He...

Highly recommended: slides from a recent talk by James Lee.

The latest from the GIANT collaboration. They are also estimating ~ 10k causal variants in total, with 697 now identified at genome-wide sig...

This paper uses Swedish conscript data to examine characteristics of CEOs of large and medium sized companies. Also discussed on Marginal R...

More evidence that common genetic variants can produce many standard deviations of change in average phenotype. Also, while wild chickens...

2000+ views in 4 months is not bad considering that this is a genomics paper but uses terms like phase transition, sparsity, L1-penalized...

For those interested in studies of identical twins reared apart, see IQ Similarity of Twins Reared Apart: findings and responses to criti...

More Conor McGregor . More Bill Evans .

Piketty on EconTalk  (podcast) -- a lively discussion between Russ Roberts and guest Thomas Piketty. See earlier post here . Piketty: ....

At this link you can find pages of discussion about Ivy admissions, stimulated at least in part by Pinker's recent article (see here...

I just bought 10 copies for my team at MSU. More here . The book is based on Thiel's Stanford class CS 183: Startup -- see course notes ...