A few things I wish all my students would read

Why you should get rid of your word processor:

• Allin Cottrell, “Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient.” http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html

Why most published articles are wrong, and why they are more likely to be wrong in more presitgious journals:

• Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005) “Why most published research findings are false,”. PLoS Medicine 2:e124 doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124. Full text: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
• Brembs B, Button K and Munafò M (2013) “Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:291. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291. Full text: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full