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"The Letter S" by Donald E. Knuth. An entire paper on the typographical design of the letter S and variants based on type size and other attributes. An elegant paper on a single letter: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03023051#page-1
It is a sad tragedy that this article is not freely available on the web (at least as I can find).
https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
(12 pages, quick read)
It made me realise how political science can be and how facts on large issues can be covered up for political reasons.
As an economics undergraduate, Paul Krugman's paper on The Theory of Interstellar Trade was a must read, exclusively for its light-heartedness: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf (12 pages, quick read)
It's really an interesting situation; thinking about how there would no longer be an 'unambiguous' measure of time when we have faster than light travel.
Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN Diets for Change in Weight and Related Risk Factors Among Overweight Premenopausal Women[1] and Low-carbohydrate nutrition and metabolism[2]. After spending most of my life obese, even after having bariatric surgery to "correct" it, I found I had to dive into the science on my own to see past the charlatans and the demagogues. These two papers lit the way for me.
1. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=205916
This paper achieves a wonderful balance between being incredibly important and almost absurdly easy to read and understand.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020187
"Those who get first-generation therapies only just in time will in fact be unlikely to live more than 20–30 years more than their parents, because they will spend many frail years with a short remaining life expectancy (i.e., a high risk of imminent death), whereas those only a little younger will never get that frail and will spend rather few years even in biological middle age. Quantitatively, what this means is that if a 10% per year decline of mortality rates at all ages is achieved and sustained indefinitely, then the first 1000-year-old is probably only 5–10 years younger than the first 150-year-old."
As an economics undergraduate, Paul Krugman's paper on The Theory of Interstellar Trade was a must read, exclusively for its light-heartedness: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf (12 pages, quick read)
Came here to say this. It really is awesome; and I hate Krugman! It's really an interesting situation; thinking about how there would no longer be an 'unambiguous' measure of time when we have faster than light travel.
I try to separate academic Krugman from New York Times Krugman. It helps.