Worldwide Threat Assessment of US Intelligence Community

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf

Best Treatment for TMJ Might be Nothing

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/health/03brod.html

Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2019/10/15/is-college-still-worth-it-the-new-calculus-of-falling-returns

Why Most Published Research Findings are False

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

Kondratiev Wave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave

Gray Rhinos

https://www.thegrayrhino.com/

Why Humanity Destoryed Itself

https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/why-humanity-destroyed-itself/

Overreaction to Fearsome Risk

https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rzeckhau/overreaction_risks.pdf

Limts of Prediction

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Black Swans and Love Analysis:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-63-no-4/pdfs/Limits-of-Prediction.pdf

Deliver Uncompromised

A study commissioned by the Pentagon warning that insecure supply chains place America's armed forces at grave risk from hacking and high-tech sabotage.

https://rightexposure.com/images/deliver-uncompromised-MITRE-study-8AUG2018.pdf

A Theory of Narrow Thinking

https://economics.mit.edu/files/15186

Why Austria is Still the Center of Espionage

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46228163

DRD4-7R

The "wanderlust gene."

ACE-IQ

"Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire, or ACE-IQ, which identifies 13 factors in young lives that can lead to problems in adulthood."

The Undiagnosed Diseases Network

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/health/patients-medical-mysteries.html

Russian Agents Sought Secret US Records

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/russian-agents-sought-us-treasury-records-on-clinton-backers

How Tariffs Work and Why China Won't See a Bill

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/how-tariffs-work-china.html

Surprising Formula for Becoming an Art Star

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-formula-for-becoming-an-art-star-1541704849

A Week as a Legal Sex Worker

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/week-legal-sex-worker-booked-160000200.html

Doctors are surprisingly bad at reading lab results

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/10/05/feature/doctors-are-surprisingly-bad-at-reading-lab-results-its-putting-us-all-at-risk/?noredirect=on

Cool Chart: Big 5 Book Publishers

https://almossawi.com/big-five-publishers/

Person's Location Capacity = 25

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/06/28/at-any-given-time-in-their-lives-people-have-two-dozen-regular-haunts

The 8 Best Predictors of the Long-Term Market

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-8-best-predictors-of-the-long-term-market-1533521521

How to Have Sex in a Canoe

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/magazine/how-to-have-sex-in-a-canoe.html

Gravity Model of Trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_model_of_trade

Hedonic Editing

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-012-9379-6

The Pursuit of Healthier Offices

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/business/healthy-office-real-estate.html

Examing the Local Value of Economic Development Incentives

https://www.brookings.edu/research/examining-the-local-value-of-economic-development-incentives/

Do Pipelines Really Create Lots of Jobs?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/opinion/environment-pipelines-jobs-carbon.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FKeystone%20XL&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection

How Bad is Political Partisanship?

A 2016 paper says that partisanship among America's lawmakers is higher today than at any point since Reconstruction after the Civil War.

"In 1990, the probability of correctly guessing a lawmaker's party from a one-minute speech was 55%...by 2008, the probability of correctly identifying a Democrat or Republican had jumped to 83%"

http://www.nber.org/papers/w22423

The leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World

EternalBlue:
https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/

The World's Most Traded Goods

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/the-top-importers-and-exporters-of-the-world-s-18-most-traded-goods

Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/descendants-of-holocaust-survivors-have-altered-stress-hormones/

Quote of the Week

"The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works."

-Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya

40% Rule - How Pundits Never Get it Wrong

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-do-pundits-never-get-it-wrong-call-a-40-chance-1519662425