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Some writings worth reading, here and there,“Mr. President, We are not employees of the university. We are the university” http://nghoussoub.com/2014/04/23/… (interesting post by @NGhoussoub)"Altmetrics: Mistaking the Means for the End" http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/05/… ht @CollectifPAPERA"Have we reached peak publication?" http://scientopia.org/blogs/inbabyattachmode … (such as the peak oil)Shorter deadlines, email reminders and cash incentives to speedup review process http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/05/… ht @DevilleSy"Data Science Has Been Using Rebel Statistics for a Long Time" http://datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/… by @analyticbridge via @KirkDBorne"The Internet in Real-Time" http://pennystocks.la/internet… "How Quickly Data is Generated""The Capitalist’s Dilemma" http://hbr.org/2014/06/the… by Clayton M. Christensen and Derek van Bever"The internet has ruined our conception of time" http://newstatesman.com/culture/2014/05/…"Balls and brains" http://economist.com/node/12719355the policial leanings of Europe's regions, http://economist.com/blogs/blighty/2014/… (ht @SonyKapoor) see"N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images" http://nytimes.com/2014/06/01… (so, finally selfies might have some interest)"working in I.T. is like being married..." http://www.lingvistov.ru/doodles/  seeRT @BrankoMilan "Can a society where most of the rich are non-workers be called a 'good society'"? My todatt-destructive-us-hurricanes/ … (As the 2014 hurricane season begins...) ht @Nick_Lamparelliso close (via @9gag)"Top universities opt for public bonds to plug the funding gap" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/…"Economics and Morality" http://imf.org/external/pubs/… and http://arnoldkling.com/blog/timothy…electricity, in the U.S. (via http://vox.com/2014/5/31…)"Research is mostly slow and nonsignificant" http://scilogs.com/expiscor/… by @CMBuddle obvious but rarely mentioned when you read grants proposals"An Area’s Level of Poverty or Wealth May Affect the Distribution of Cancer Types" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/… see e.g."Big Data: The Computation/Statistics Interface" https://youtu.be/LFiwO5wSbi8  (see also http://simons.berkeley.edu/…)"A Price Tag on Carbon as a Climate Rescue Plan" http://nytimes.com/2014/05/30…"What It's Like to Fail" http://priceonomics.com/what… (via http://ragemag.fr/david…, for the French version)"National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior" http://nationalsexstudy.indiana.edu/  (via @monachalabi's http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab…)"Chernobyl Caesium-137 contaminated areas in Europe" (http://eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/…)"The nine companies that know more about you than Google or Facebook" http://qz.com/213900/…"Y-DNA human migration" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… via https://familytreedna.com/… see"Women and breast cancer in Europe" (via http://thelandofmaps.tumblr.com/ )vs "Men and prostate cancer in Europe""In 2008, consensus from forecasters that not a single economy would fall into recession in 2009" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/… by @TimHarford"Reinventing the Impact Factor for the 21st century" http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/04… via @CollectifPAPERA"Why scientists should stop publishing" http://universityworldnews.com/… ht @CollectifPAPERA"Why I do so much outreach and science communication" http://scilogs.com/expiscor/… by @bioinfocus ht @paslap"The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it" pic.twitter.com/1FSRUrtIqp via @BlaqSwans"Forget 'the Cloud'; 'the Fog' Is Tech's Future" http://online.wsj.com/news/..."Map of the Stereotypes" http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art… by JaySimons"Why NYU in Abu Dhabi Matters" http://harry-lewis.blogspot.de/2014/05/… via @stephenWalt"Where do you sit in seminars?" http://www.phdcomics.com/1017 … (ht @Dr_Fraggle)"the American passion for motorized caravans... results in little permanent damage beyond divorce and bankruptcy" http://popsci.com/article/diy/…"Who Will Retweet This?" http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3750  via http://technologyreview.com/view/527411 …"Be Skeptical of Both Piketty And His Skeptics" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/… by @NateSilver538"The Curious World of Probabilities with Prof. Jeffrey Rosenthal" https://youtu.be/GNX7cRhWVi0"It's simple. If we can't change our economic system, our number's up" http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/… by @GeorgeMonbiotGreenland vs. Africa, Mercator projection vs Actual size (rotation) via http://thelandofmaps.tumblr.com/  see"Using sentiment analysis to predict ratings of popular tv series" http://statofmind.wordpress.com/2014/05/… ht @RDub2 @Rbloggers    "A microfoundation for cooperative behavior" http://sciencedirect.com/S0047272714000607 …Insured catastrophe losses and Cat bond returns (via http://sciencedirect.com/S0929119914000066 …)"The Number of Scholarly Documents on the Public Web" http://plosone.org/…The Largest Immigrant Population in Each State in the U.S. http://mentalfloss.com/article/… via @ilovecharts"Finally, A Useful Correlation Between Cell Phones And Cancer" http://fastcolabs.com/3031156/…"Otto Neurath and the Politics of Orchestration" http://visionscarto.net/neurath… by @visionscarto (great post)"Towards a new viewpoint on causality for time series" http://hal-polytechnique.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/… via @DEAGiles "Why It’s So Hard for Men to See Misogyny" http://slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/…extracting colors from a picture to generate a palette http://blenditbayes.blogspot.ca/… cool! by @matlabulous (via @Rbloggers)"The Mercator Redemption" http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2013/… "The Mercator world map and the complex logarithm function"et un peu de lecture en français,"Fabius rencontre les présentateurs météo pour parler du changement climatique" http://lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/coulisses/… (cherchez l'erreur... via @mart1oeil)"Une histoire du spam" http://monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/03/…"L’État comme interface entre le capitalisme et la nature" https://france.attac.org/nos-publications/…La journée mondiale sans tabac, ce n'est pas sans risques.... MT @Menilmuche (via @tiboleclerc)''la montée du parti des Le Pen et « la destruction de l’attention » par le marketing et la société de consommation'' http://humanite.fr/politique/bernard…"Survol des modes de financement de l’enseignement supérieur dans différents pays" http://mesrst.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/… via http://ssfudes.com/veille/leveilleur/…"Internet et l'ordinateur racontés par les enfants" http://franceculture.fr/emission…"Obésité ou surpoids dans le monde, Hommes vs. Femmes" http://lemonde.fr/planete/… via http://thelancet.com/journals/… cf"Statistique, Apprentissage,Big–Data–Mining" http://math.univ-toulouse.fr/~besse/…Did I miss something else interesting?