Alex Bäcker's Wiki / Science

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
--Albert Einstein

This Science Wiki is an experiment in a new form of scientific discourse. One in which publication is dissociated from peer review, in which papers are live documents that can be continually updated, in which a publon (minimal unit of publishable material) is as small as its author deems it, in which ideas can see the light of day sooner, even during the very process of their initial formulation and refinement, in which readers can contribute to an article, correcting it, enhancing it or providing references to relevant work, and in which the publication record can record the morphing of an idea into an accepted fact. More details can be found here.

Biology:
Need Death be Irreversible?

Cognition:
The Evolutionary Advantage of Humor
What Humor Is
Memory is an illusion
Why we like music
What music is
On learning language
Babies do not learn by imitation

Economics & Political Science:
Election reform
The 9-day week
Dollar Democracy
Using Free Markets To Provide Public Goods, or the original version, Self-organizing Government
On Profit Maximization as the Social Responsibility of Business

Evolution:
How biological evolution avoids overfitting
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
The Evolutionary Advantage of Aging
A Role for Differential Susceptibility to Disease in the Origin and Stabilization of Biodiversity: A Unification of Twin Problems in Ecology and Evolution
Why Babies Like to be Rocked to Sleep
Fisher Did Not Predict Sex Ratio of 1
An Explanation for the Returning Soldier Effect
Why the Sex Ratio is 1
An Immunological Fitness Hypothesis to Explain the Selection of Human Color Polymorphisms in Europe
An Unbroken Chain of Winners Spanning more than 3 Billion Years and Culminating in You
The Biome Sequencing Project
The Informational Content of a Genome
Why Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny