Stories by mcguire

Lawmakers with stock holdings vote in ways that juice their portfolios

Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

Why Men Rank Higher Than Women at Chess (It's Not Biological) [2009]

The Tyranny of Merit

The Dictatorship of Data

The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch

Eugenics Shaped Statistics

The Impact of Covid-19 on Years of Life Lost

Ask HN: Alternative to unison for two-way syncing?

Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine vs. Placebo for Pre-Exposure SARS-CoV-2: A RCT

Es: A shell with higher-order functions, lexical scope, and exceptions

NIH halts trial of hydroxychloroquine: treatment does no harm, has no benefit

Gender gaps in STEM: large number of low-achieving men in PECS relative to women

J for C Programmers

Hacker News flag-kills front page article

Almost Perfect Artifacts Improve Only in Small Ways: Alan Perlis

Why Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Far Lower Than in Other Countries

All of the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds

Why Did America Give Up on Mass Transit? (Don't Blame Cars.) (2018)

Chevy Bolt EV Traction Motor – Deep Dive [video]

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