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Some writings worth reading"Physicists, Generals And CEOs Agree: Ditch The PowerPoint" http://npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/…"Using journal rank as an assessment tool- we probably shouldn’t do it" http://nicebrain.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/… (about http://journal.frontiersin.org/…)"Scholarly publishers and their high profits" http://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/s …Good to know http://askthepast.blogspot.ca/2014 … "How to Walk With Ladies, 1891""How Higher Education Ought to Be" http://towardfreedom.com/35-archives/…"Ingredients of an All-Natural Banana" http://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/ … nice! see also kiwi and blueberry"Chance and consensus in peer review" http://columbia.edu/cu/univprof/jcole/_pdf/… (in Nov. 1981)"When to Act on a Correlation, and When Not To" http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/when… ht @OsezAna"Spreadsheets and Global Mayhem" http://nytimes.com/2014/03/23/sunday… "mathematical models to predict genocides", ht @econoclaste"Handling and Processing Strings in R" http://gastonsanchez.com/Handling… ht @Rbloggers"Economic forecasting has become much more sophisticated ..." http://democracyjournal.org/32/… "So why are we still so bad at it?""I was modern once..." http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/… by @charltonbrooker"From domestic to international: Tornadoes around the world" http://ustornadoes.com/2013/07/25/… see"People-powered revolutions are overrated" http://newrepublic.com/article/117091/… by @anneapplebaum"From bridges to networks" http://plus.maths.org/content … ht @goulu"How Academics Learn to Write Badly" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/ … by @TimothyTTaylor“Math Prof quotes” http://mathprofessorquotes.tumblr.com/ “Abstract Algebra is wonderful because you can prove things about groups that you don’t even understand.”“And God said: ‘Thou shalt not divide by zero’”“This exercise is so easy that it can be solved in a negative number of steps.”“… And like everything trivial, we must prove it using a very obscure and indirect method that you will probably use only three or four times in your life at the very most.”“There are a number of steps to follow when you come across an integration problem that requires trig substitution. The first step is to cry. The second step is to re-evaluate your life and wonder what you did to deserve this.”“Real analysis is just triangle inequality with applications.”“Topologies aren’t like Wisconsin, unions are still allowed!”“We’re using a textbook so that way you guys don’t think I’m making all of this up.”“I too have a lot of trouble visualizing 4-dimensional vectors… When I’m sober.”"You are more than a sexual fetish — but online dating sites might not think so" http://salon.com/2014/03/15/…"The Tyranny of Structurelessness" by Jo Freeman, in 1972 http://jofreeman.com/joreen/… via http://wired.com/wiredenterprise/…"Will Econ Blogging Hurt Your Career?" http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/… ht @mileskimball see https://youtu.be/3X5lghWrMys "The rise and rise of citation analysis" http://ils.indiana.edu/media/paper/… via @A_W_Gordon's great post, "Killing Pigs and Weed Maps: The Mostly Unread World of Academic Papers" http://psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/… ht @simon_frantz"Why blame?" http://econ.umn.edu/~rusti001…"Avatar-to-avatar Communication as Effective as Face-to-face Communication?" http://ben.orsee.org/papers/…A Rejected Toronto Star Editorial Cartoon from March 13 (according to http://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com…)"Income distribution and housing prices: An assignment model approach" http://aalto-econ.fi/tervio/…"Digital Discrimination: The Case of http://Airbnb.com " http://hbswk.hbs.edu/... "Social issues count for little in mainstream business education..." http://theguardian.com/sustainable-business/…"An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not. True Story" http://npr.org/blogs/krulwich/… ht @pierrebrt (following https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/442822756048973824)et un peu de lecture en français"Ivre, la NASA prédit encore la fin de la civilisation" http://h16free.com/2014/03/23/29883-ivre… par @_h16 ht @gouluEn France, casseroles et élections http://slate.fr/france/84937/justice… par @vincentgladvia @decodeurs "Municipales : carte de l'abstention 2014 vs 2008" http://lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/infographie/… cf"Des affinités électives ou le triomphe de la libido sciendi" http://lavraieviedelaboratoire.wordpress.com/… ht @TotoroInParis"L’exode portugais" http://liberation.fr/monde/2014/02/03/… (via http://cadtm.org/L-exode-portugais …)"Même pas veuve !" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2…"Qui a peur de la bande dessinée ? “Mauvais genre” et enseignement" http://labojrsd.hypotheses.org/1628 "« Toujours plus de dividendes » versés par les groupes français ?" http://factamedia.com/toujours-plus-de… thanks @Bank_Able pour #lacomptadumatin"Je suis un « casseur » (et je suis hyper-sympa)" http://article11.info/…Did I miss something?