15 Year Olds Published In Nature and Why They Can't Afford Textbooks

Note: I managed to accidentally delete the most recent version which had between 2 and 3 times as many links. That's frustrating. Commit early, commit often. Also, using twitter probably wouldn't hurt.

Astronomy

• 15 year published in Nature for work on. He's actually the 10th author. His dad is the first. "A vast, thin plane of corotating dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy".

Math

• "P-adic arithmetic". "P-adics are an alternative to the real numbers. In fact, in a way, they are the alternative to real numbers."
• Heyting Algebra. Intuitionist equivalent of Boolean algebras.
• StackExchange: Learning Lambda Calculus.

Society

• "Fred Rogers talks about Tragic Events in the News". "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world." Also, there's a Fred Rogers Company and website.
• "Choose Your Own Crime Stats". Youtube video. Most telling comment is along the lines of "50% drop in crime in the past 20 years and no one is taking credit."

Entertainment/Culture

• "Pop Culture Happy Hour: Is Everything Worse Than Ever? And A Gift Guide!". Specifically for Glen's critics/cancer fighting enzyme metaphor. Also brings up the "Hollywood's Year of Heroine Worship"

Resumes and Typesetting

• RPI's LaTeX Resume Templates
• "Creating Your Resume in Latex". Reddit discussion and blog post.

Computing

• Haskell :: Functional Programming with Types. Haskell Wikibook
• Baby Alligators: Gamified Lambda Calculus

Science

• Periodic Table of Videos
• Three Myths about scientific peer review

Economics

• 'Writing the "The Market for 'Lemons'": A Personal and Interpretive Essay'
• "Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive?". "You thought the rising cost of college tuition was bad? Then check out the rising cost of college textbooks. The American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry has put together this nifty chart showing the egregious, 812 percent rise in the cost of course materials since 1978, as captured in the Bureau of Labor Statistics's consumer price index data."