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A couple of very interesting posts this week (and also a more funny one),"Scholarship: Beyond the paper" (via Neuro_Skeptic's post) http://nature.com/nature/…"Universities are looking to drop traditional requirements for scholarly papers in favor of internet entries." http://globalpost.com/dispatch/…"The French are less happy than the British and the only solution is to learn English" http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/… by timothy_stanleyand a lot of posts and articles worth reading,"The Econometrics of Conclave" http://prosaeconomica.com/… on ProsaEconomica's blog"Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank" http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3748 "How Fast We Slow Down Running Longer Distances" http://nytimes.com/… see also http://andrewgelman.com/…"Why is it so easy to forecast the Presidential election and so hard to forecast the NCAA basketball tournament?" http://punkrockor.wordpress.com/ …"The Debate on Bank Size Is Over" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/… via MarkThoma"Why are the French drinking less wine?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/ …"The Dijsselbloem Principle" http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/… by felixsalmon on the beginning of the end of the age of deposit insurance via MargRevBaby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception..." http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22267884  via http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/…"Americans Want More Social Security, Not Less" http://forbes.com/sites/edwardsiedle/…"Ideological Leanings of Supreme Court Justices" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/… see"Open source in higher education: how far have we come?" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/… (quite optimistic)"What is the purpose of insurance?" http://gregmankiw.blogspot.ru/… on gregmankiwblog's blogWhat does a data scientist do?" http://slideshare.net/datasciencelondon/… by Carlos Somohano founder of ds_ldn via Rbloggers and http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/…"What’s Wrong With `Publish or Perish'"? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/… by Neuro_Skeptic"Britons love gambling, and are rubbish at it" http://economist.com/..Bloomberg !... http://bloomberg.com/g-is-to-kill-it.html … "The Best Way to Save Banking Is to Kill It""Church of England survey suggests that 4 out of 5 people in Britain believe in the power of prayer" http:/guardian.co.uk/science/… "Is this true ?""The insistence that guns protect people from rape and violence is not rooted in scientific reality" http://guardian.co.uk/science/…"Why Don’t Politicians Care about the Working Class?" http://thefiscaltimes.com/… by MarkThoma[physics] "how tall can a Lego towers be?" http://bbc.co.uk/… (2x2 Lego to be more specific)"Tinkering knowledge sharing, or why we need to hack science" http://aljazeera.com/indepth/… via AJEnglish by maliciarogueawesome http://hooktheory.com/… transition probabilities in (popular) music"The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos" http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/ … by debamlen via y1x[movie] "Shaking Tokyo" (29 min) by Bong Joon-ho (봉준호) http://dailymotion.com/video/… story of an hikikomori (ひきこもり http://en.wikipedia.org/Hikikomori )"Shaking Tokyo" vostfr (court 29 mn) par ancoliemagicSinon, toujours quelques articles intéressants, en français cette fois"Nos hivers seront-ils plus froids dans un monde plus chaud ?" http://lemonde.fr/planete/…"Les mathématiques démentent le comptage des organisateurs de la 'Manif pour tous'" http://lemonde.fr/decryptages/… via GregFleurot et stephanedreyfus"Big data: vers une nouvelle science des risques ?" http://abiteboul.com/… par sergeabiteboul (découvert via alain_Gely)"Où se pratiquent les sports collectifs majeurs en France ?" via datapublica et matamix see"Votre enfant n'est pas une bête à concours et suit un cursus normal? conseils pour déculpabiliser" http://madame.lefigaro.fr/societe/… RT sophiedetarle"Travaille, consomme, pis ferme ta gueule" http://voir.ca/jean-felix-chenier/… par blogueduvoisin via IanikMarcilEn France, "Universités: faillite annoncée" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/…décidément, coulmont a toujours réponse à tout ! http://coulmont.com/blog/2… par exemple créer des maisons avec RDid I miss something ?