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Some writings worth reading, discovered here, and there"Gaza: Is Israel fighting a just war?" http://prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/…"Crowdsourcing Dialect Characterization through Twitter" http://arxiv.org/1407.7094 via http://technologyreview.com/529836“I just want to be normal" http://thelancet.com/PIIS2215-0366…"How to Understand the Social Network's Privacy Policy and Take Control of Targeted Ads" http://online.wsj.com/articles…"What kind of nuts do Americans eat?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"What do Bill Clinton, Miley Cyrus, Johnny Cash, and Elizabeth Warren all have in common?" http://blog.longreads.com/2014/…"An Introduction to Likelihoodist, Bayesian, and Frequentist Methods" http://choiceandinference.com/2014/… 1/2 http://choiceandinference.com/2014/… 2/2 ht @J_P_Boucher"Meet the Bots That Knew Ebola Was Coming" http://time.com/3086550"A Network Framework of Cultural History" http://sciencemag.org/c6196/558 … (over 20 centuries)"The Ivy Leagues are a ludicrous waste of resources" http://salon.com/2014/… ht @NGhoussoub"How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings?" http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty…"Moneyball for Academics: network analysis methods for predicting the future success of papers and researchers"  http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/..."When Is Big Data Analytics A Waste Of Time?" http://forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/…"Rates of cancer survival over the last 40 years" http://cancerresearchuk.org "Should self-citations be included or excluded from measures of academic performance?" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/… (from http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/research/…)"Americans Give Up Passports as Asset-Disclosure Rules Start" http://bloomberg.com/news/..."Land losses" (ht @diogene2607)"Science Is Not About Certainty" http://newrepublic.com/118655/…Science is not about data; it’s not about the empirical content, about our vision of the world. It’s about overcoming our own ideas and continually going beyond common sense. Science is a continual challenging of common sense, and the core of science is not certainty, it’s continual uncertainty—I would even say, the joy of being aware that in everything we think, there are probably still an enormous amount of prejudices and mistakes, and trying to learn to look a little bit beyond, knowing that there’s always a larger point of view to be expected in the future."Why the US should start taxing soda like cigarettes &#38; alcohol" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/ … by @robferdman"The Minds &#38; Algorithms That Make Hollywood Spectacle" http://nautil.us/blog/…"Are you risk taking or risk averse? It may depend on how you measure it!" http://voxeu.org/article/…"By equating social media use with narcissism, the Kardashian Index joke ignores wide disparity in research ecosystem." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences... e.g.Genome Biology published a satirical piece by Neil Hall, and since I’m American and he’s British I don’t find it funny. No wait, it’s that I’m female and he’s male. Or maybe that I’m junior and he’s senior. I’ve got it, it’s because he has a ton of publications (many times the number I have), and I have a ton of Twitter followers (many times the number he has). Meaning, my K-index knocks his out of the park..."Publicly available data from Twitter is public evidence and does not necessarily constitute an 'ethical dilemma'” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows" http://bloomberg.com/news/2014…"Positive Externalities of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Consumer Credit" http://nber.org/w20353…"Focus and credibility will help academic blogs thrive but negative perceptions must be challenged" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"Zip code better predictor of health than genetic code" http://hsph.harvard.edu/news/…"What Is the Difference Between a Cyclone, Typhoon, and Hurricane?" http://thevane.gawker.com/1617803648y un poco de lectura en español"Los que pueden vivir sin auto vs los que pueden vivir sin Internet" http://animalpolitico.com/bloguero… ht http://datarep.tumblr.com/ et un peu de lecture en français"LaTeX en amont des humanités numériques" http://contagions.hypotheses.org/686"La statistique, plus forte que l’amour" http://liberation.fr/chroniques/… ht @mapav8 (je vais garder le titre pour mes prochaines notes de cours)"Chut, la France se vide..." http://lesechos.fr/idees-debats/… (le seul graph que j'ai pu trouver http://lemonde.fr/societe/…)"Combien d'accidents d'avion depuis 2010 ?" http://lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/… ht @samuellaurentmessage hallucinant ! http://ladepeche.fr/article/… "pas pris en prépas... il ne reste qu'à redoubler !" (car l'université n'existe pas en France)Did I miss something interesting?