I started using Instapaper exclusively to mark the best articles/essays/blog posts I read in a year but at times I do forget. Here's a short list of readings I enjoyed this year:
- Genetic evidence suggests that, four millennia ago, a group of adventurous Indians landed in Australia
- Self in Self-Help by Kathryn Schulz
- Wallace & Depression by Thomas Meaney
- Amusing ourselves to death and Why is the power of tyrants short lived? by Farnam Street
- Bayesianism for Humans by Less Wrong
- The trouble with democracy by David Runciman
- Lion forms unusually close bond with conservationists by David Strege
- Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course by Max Chafkin
- David Foster Wallace on Planet Trillaphon by Thomas Meaney
- News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier by Rolf Dobelli
- The Eternal Mainframe by Rudolf Winestock
- The Secret History of Guns by Adam Winkler
- The Tragedies of Other Places by Rafia Zakaria
- How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math by Matt Waite
- And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ by Fred Vogelstein
- How I Write by Robert Sapolsky
- The Importance of the Afterlife. Seriously. by Samuel Scheffler
- Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand by Gary Marcus
- Inside Google’s Driverless Car by Burkhard Bilger
- There are no significant facts about human beings by Charles Foster
- Retail Therapy: Inside the Apple Store: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble. by Timothy McSweeney
- Of Our Chances (science fiction is built to showcase the future but philosophy teaches us so much more about the way the world goes - and how it might end.) by Ken Baumann
- Raise the Crime Rate by Christopher Glazek
- Surprised By Grief by Andrew
- On Eating Animals by Mary Johnson
- The Essayification of Everything by Christy Wampole
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Beyond the Greeting Cards) by Danny Heitman
- Revealed preferences for longevity by Frances Wooley
- GM Crops - Promise and Reality @ Nature Specials
- Is College Moving Online? by Nathan Heller
- Pro-Life, Pro-Animal: The conscience of a pro-life, vegan conservative by Matthew Scully
- The culture of guns, the culture of alcohol by Tyler Cowen
- Susan Sontag Really Did Read Everything There Was to Read by Mark O'Connell
- On the Phenomena of Bull Shit Jobs by David Graeber (check this bullshit job title generator)
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