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Long time no see... here are some writings worth reading, published somewhere else,"The Rationality Debate" http://nytimes.com/2014/01/19/… via http://rogerfarmerblog.blogspot.ca/2014/… (see also http://nber.org/w18647 )"Why Quants Don’t Know Everything" http://wired.com/business/ … by @felixsalmon"Populist Backlash in France" http://europeanideas.eu/pages/politics/… by @artgoldhammerSome wild image captures from Google streetview, http://9-eyes.com/  via @statisticsblog e.g."The Cult of Overwork" http://newyorker.com/talk/financial/…"Is It Too Late To Reinvent Our Universities?" http://forbes.com/sites/mikemaddock/… HT @davidenkoff"Bloggers have same speech protections as journalists" http://boingboing.net/2014/01/19/…"Moderating internet forums : What’s smart, not what’s new" http://edwardtufte.com/bboard/q…"Why We Procrastinate" http://nautil.us/issue/…"American ancestry by county" via http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/ … (nice maps)"Public Libraries Show Why Sharing Culture Should Never Have Been Banned in the First Place" http://torrentfreak.com/public-…)"Japanese Economic Mythbusting" http://neojaponisme.com/2014/01/15/… by @Noahpinion"Even Ph.D.s Who Got “Full Funding” Have Huge Amounts of Debt" http://slate.com/blogs/browbeat/… HT @mattyglesias"Tweet goes viral" http://editerna.free.fr/145  #rstat #gephi by @3wen"For americans, global warning is a relatively distant threat" via http://environment.yale.edu/… (HT @FrenchRedFrog)"Can financial economics learn from Dancing with the Stars?" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.de/  by @TCJUK+1 "No Comment" http://occamstypewriter.org/… (via @ClausWilke )"William Beveridge's 'Mock Trial of the Economists'" http://papers.ssrn.com/… via @tylercowen's http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution…"Pluralistic ignorance and alcohol use on campus: Some consequences of misperceiving the social norm" http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ …"Beautifully Mashed-Up Photos Show The Glory And Wreckage Of Detroit" http://fastcoexist.com/1681121/… see"What Big Data Means For Social Science" http://edge.org/panel/headcon…"10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data" https://authorea.com/users/…"Porn trends in the UK" http://theguardian.com/news/datablog/… (with data) via http://gianlubaio.blogspot.ca/2014/01/…"The cold hard facts of freezing to death" http://outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/ … via @Sci_Phile's http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/…"How http://reddit.com  has changed over time" http://randalolson.com/2013/03/12/… see"Is Life a Ponzi Scheme?" http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/…"Academe quits me" http://dgmyers.blogspot.ca/2014/01/…"The likelihood of your dying during a given year doubles every eight years" http://npr.org/blogs/krulwich/… (Gompertz law)"Global warming’s biggest offenders" http://iopscience.iop.org/… via http://concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/ … and @visionscarto see[free ebook] "On Chance and Unpredictability" http://stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/d… "on the links between mathematical probability and the real world"via @ddiamond "Where there’s smoke, there’s cancer" http://advisory.com/daily-briefing… State-by-state smoking rate - cancer deathsSeries "Hidden Meanings of Maps" http://geoawesomeness.com/… by @AFreant e.g. "The Projection Choice" http://geoawesomeness.com/… via @VisionsCarto"Undisclosed Flexibility In Data Collection And Analysis Allows Presenting Anything As Significant" http://socio.mta.hu/dynamic… and " How To Have A High Success Rate In Treatment: Advice For Evaluators Of Alcoholism Programs" http://slatestarcodex.com/S… via "Two Dark Side Statistics Papers" http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/…"commercial at" http://typefoundry.blogspot.fr/2013/10/…"Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space" http://nber.org/w15199  e.g. KoreaReal satellite picture, taken above Korea (via https://google.ca/search?q=satellite+korea…) Note that the original (11Mo high resolution picture) is http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/… see"If you flip a coin forever, are you guaranteed to eventually flip an equal number of heads and tails?" http://askamathematician.com/2014/… (see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/147  for random walks in dimension 1,2 and 3 - in French)"Bailout Could Backfire on Insurers" http://bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-10/ … by @asymmetricinfo"What blogging was" http://hyperorg.com/blogger/…"Canada Obesity Map, 2000-2011" http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/… cc @q_ruy"Come Binge With Me" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/…"Photo" http://xkcd.com/1314/  HT @Uneheuredepeine cf"Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips" http://sciencemag.org/content… via @goulu"A Fat World – With a Fat Secret?" http://jaymans.wordpress.com/2013/04 … see BMI index Map"How To Track Vehicles Using Speed Data Alone" http://technologyreview.com/view/523346/…"Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: in History and Now" http://elibrary.worldbank.org/6259…via @debmackenzie1 "Academic Feedback""Women may be underrepresented in many fields of science but it looks as though they may be more productive than men" http://theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/…"Whack Data The Small Towns and Deserts of Canada" http://whackdata.tumblr.com/post/70826009125/ … seeI can't figure out if Amazon is serious, or not http://amazon.comB004MBNK5K … a more girly version http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004MBNK78… (cheaper, too) seemuch better than http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/10181#maps  "European word translator" http://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator/… via @bodyspacesoc e.g.avec aussi un peu de lecture en français,"La notion d'espérance de vie repose sur un postulat dénué de tout fondement" ? http://lemonde.fr/planete/article/2013/… wtf ? cf http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/1907  (découvert via http://imposteurs.org/article… un peu court, malheureusement)"Les élites, débordées par le numérique, sont de retour" http://slate.fr/story/82157/ … par @vincentglad"Penser la parole médiatique" http://atelier.rfi.fr/profiles/blogs/ … par @ziadmaalouf"L'art de stocker des mots de passe" http://linuxfr.org/users/elyotna/journaux…"En toute logique on devrait interdire les bibliothèques publiques" http://framablog.org/index.php/… HT @rosselin"Mais si ! L’université est en crise et la crise s’aggrave" http://liberation.fr/societe/2014/01/09/… par O. Beaud, A. Caillé et F. Vatin, HT @SH_lelabo"Deux enfants par femme, nouvelle norme mondiale ? " http://alternatives-economiques.fr/deux-enfants… via @Monolecte see«Puisque ces mystères me dépassent, feignons d'en être l'organisateur» http://blog.educpros.fr/pierredubois… sur le statut des enseignants chercheursASAP? http://academie-francaise.fr/asap  "le caractère d’urgence d’une requête pourrait être marqué avec plus d’urbanité" via @monsieurkaplan"Marketing et datamasse" http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/… par @nb58, avec du #bigdata dedans"Les infos les plus recherchées sur le Net" http://courrierinternational.com/article/2014/… passionnant ![RIP] Marc Yor (July 24, 1949 – January 10, 2014) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Yor  via http://les-mathematiques.net/phorum…Did I miss something?