Marzo

Posts:

• Risk factors for depression and anxiety in doing a Ph.D.. A summary on the evidence when it comes to depression and anxiety propensity in PhD students.
• How Much Energy Do We Need?, on how and why should we estimate the maximum amount of energy per person per year needed.
• Why You Procrastinate, a view of procrastination as an emotion regulation problem.
• The Trauma Floor, on the working conditions of Facebook’s censors (see the spanish section for more on this topic).
• ZIP is Broken, Except it’s Not, Except it Is. A reflection by an Internet Archive worker on how to preserve compressed files from the past.
• A Simple Model of Cults of Personality. A plausible and enlightening model of cults of personality.
• Applicative Archery, on a simplified view of Haskell’s Applicative class laws à la Kleisli categories.
• Linear Haskell - Practical Linearity in a Higher-Order Polymorphic Language. Linear types on Haskell are (almost) here! (and by almost I mean maybe a couple of years, but you get the point).
• Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine, on a group of anarchists making cheap substitutes for expensive and hard to obtain medication.

Films:

• The Favourite, a marvelous reinterpretation of the reign of Queen Anne.

Podcasts:

• #109 - Homewrecker, a tale on how to ruin a stranger’s life on the Internet.
• Pessimists Archive - Telegraph, on how people reacted to the popularization of the telegraph.

En español:

• Así es como las apuestas online han conquistado España: los ludópatas del futuro ya están aquí, sobre el auge de la ludopatía entre los jóvenes en España.
• Los centros secretos donde Facebook maneja la censura: “Aquí se permite el fascismo y el acoso machista”, un artículo (compañero a «The Trauma Floor») que relata las condiciones de trabajo de los censores de Facebook y sus implicaciones.
• Los coches nos están matando y hay que erradicarlos, sobre por qué hay que eliminar los coches.