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  Archaeology Astronomy Computer Science Medicine Physics The Year in Review [long_description] As the end of the year approaches, the editors are delighted to present our second annual review, highlighting the essays that best represent our aims, ambitions, attitudes, and even our animadversions. Collected here are some notable essays we published this year, some illuminating exchanges from our letters section, and a selection of our favorite links from The Rambler.

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  Biology Genetics Linguistics Mathematics Medicine Physics Zoology A Christmas Chrestomathy [long_description] As the year draws to a close, the editors are delighted to present our second annual Christmas Chrestomathy, highlighting the essays that best represent our aims, ambitions, attitudes, and even our animadversions. As it turned out, 2021 was a milestone year for the journal with the launch of a new website, the switch to a rolling publication schedule, and the debut of a new section: The Rambler.

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  Medicine SARS-CoV-2: Research Guide [long_description] As a resource for researchers and interested readers, Inference offers a research guide containing a selection of abstracts and links to research papers and articles pertaining to SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the current worldwide crisis. (108 articles, updated May 11, 2020.)

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  Medicine The Chemistry, Molecular Biology, or Virology of SARS⁠-⁠CoV⁠-⁠2 [long_description] As a resource for researchers and interested readers, Inference offers a research guide containing a selection of abstracts and links to research papers and articles pertaining to SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the current worldwide crisis. (Updated May 11, 2020.)

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  Medicine The Epidemiology of COVID-19 Transmission [long_description] As a resource for researchers and interested readers, Inference offers a research guide containing a selection of abstracts and links to research papers and articles pertaining to SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the current worldwide crisis. (Updated May 11, 2020.)

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  Medicine The Political, Economic, and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic [long_description] As a resource for researchers and interested readers, Inference offers a research guide containing a selection of abstracts and links to research papers and articles pertaining to SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the current worldwide crisis. (Updated May 11, 2020.)

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  Medicine Therapeutic Options for the Treatment of COVID-19 [long_description] As a resource for researchers and interested readers, Inference offers a research guide containing a selection of abstracts and links to research papers and articles pertaining to SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the current worldwide crisis. (Updated May 11, 2020.)

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  Bottom of the Barrel [long_description] Early retirement, sensitivity to deviance, empathetic countries, anti-ageing chocolate, the weekend effect, species-appropriate music for domestic cats, clinically dead trial participants, and more.

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  Poshlost [long_description] Technology and progress, modeling altruism, life on other planets, false-positive findings, chocolate chip cookies and self-control, the gender of glaciers, pimps and police interventions, and more.

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  Mackerels by Moonlight [long_description] Ambulance chasing, why generosity feels difficult, home ground advantage, brain stimulation, mistakes in studies of replication failures, Baumeister’s theory of willpower, elevator music, and more.

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  The Mother Lode [long_description] Low entropy and humor, misreporting public health, superflares from another sun, under-reflected upon features of philosophy, when conspiracies fail, the purpose of hands, settled science, and more.

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  Huh? [long_description] Computational models of altruism, living in a simulation, replication problems, cognitive emotion regulation in antiquity, the evolution of information, self-testing prehistoric bacteria, and more.

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  Say It Ain’t So [long_description] An abundance of exoplanets, fat shaming, knowledge diffusion, links between genetics and infidelity, ideas that are both radical and simple, the purpose of long eyelashes, hormones and the financial markets, prehistoric notions of beauty, and more.

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  No Problem [long_description] Dust and cosmic inflation, assessing Ebola outbreaks, proving and disproving evolution, pigeon learning patterns, GMOs in the wild, admitting plagiarism, impending doom for polar bears, and more.

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  Alles Klar? [long_description] An equation to predict happiness, dust polarization results, conflicts of interest, imperfect analogies, reinterpreting Milgram’s experiments, an imminent theory of consciousness, and more.

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