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A lot of writings worth reading, discovered here and there"How the Bank Lobby Loosened U.S. Reins on Derivatives" http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-04/… " how the banks helped to bring about a period of reckless, radical deregulation, then blew themselves up" via @ritholtz"What we get wrong when we talk about ‘the financial crisis’" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/…"A Climate Alarm, Too Muted for Some" http://nytimes.com/2013/09/10/science/…"The Masters of Uncertainty" http://hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-09-13/ … "The Bayesian Future of Supercomputing" via @Duncan_rdvav"Uncited articles in academic journals" http://crl.acrl.org/content/58/1/…"The lifespan of great corporations is getting shorter and shorter." http://technologyreview.com/view/… see"'Please, Tell Us More.' Al Lewis finds out what a bigdata miner knows about him" http://on.wsj.com/17FIroY  via @JohndeVoogd"The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981–2010" http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/…"An Algorithm That Makes a Computer Paint Like a Human" http://wired.com/design/2013/09/…"Best of Times Is Worse For Investment Bankers" http://online.wsj.com/article/… and @EpicureanDeal's point of view http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.ca/2007/03/…So true ! http://xkcd.com/1264/  see"This Guy Mapped His Heart Rate During 'Game Of Thrones'" via http://popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/…"The Real Humanities Crisis Is Happening at Public Universities" http://priceonomics.com/the-supersizing-of-american-colleges/ … by Gordon Hutner and @FGMohamed"The Supersizing of American Colleges" http://priceonomics.com/the-supersizing-of-american-colleges/ … via @ritholtz"Which gender you think is more susceptible to peer pressure?" http://united-academics.org/magazine/sex-society/…[racial map] Chicago via http://wired.com/design/2013/08/… seeand Detroit, via http://blog.zeit.de/open-data/2013/09/13/… and @msgbi see"More Money, More Children" http://economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/… via http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/09/11/… on the old relationship between class and birth rates inverted"Physicians Treating Physicians" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2295856 …"Tired Of Inequality? One Economist Says It'll Only Get Worse" http://npr.org/2013/09/12/221425582/…[Canada] "Tuition and Compulsory Fees for Undergraduates" via http://policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/ … (and @NGhoussoub) see"How to persuade journals to accept your replication paper” …http://politicalsciencereplication.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/… via @johnmyleswhite"Get a life!" http://economist.com/news/science-and-technology/ … "Using the social network seems to make people more miserable" via @D_Khash"No need for universities to become job-specific skills trainers" http://theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab// … via @NGhoussoubWilfrid Laurier University President Max Blouw argued that universities “are not, and should not be, in the business of producing ‘plug and play’ graduates – workers who can fit immediately into a specific job in which they spend the rest of their lives.”(...) For the most part, universities are in the business of teaching general skills – those that are transferable across all employers – such as communication, analytical and critical-thinking skills. Universities have come to teach some less general, occupation-specific skills (especially in professional programs) that are transferable across many but not all employers.  (...)  Dr. Blouw essentially argues that universities should stick with teaching the general skills, and employers need to fully return to their role in training workers with job-specific skills. [to be continued...]"Online course on forecasting using R" http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/revolutionr2013/ … by @robjhyndman[wifi] http://retronaut.com/2013/01/wireless-in-hyde-park/ … in 1906 (via @DavidRamger) see"The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication." http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/ … via @introspection"5 Years Later, We've Learned Nothing From the Financial Crisis" http://theatlantic.com/business/archive/…Two drunk statisticians are lost in the woods. http://wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/two-statisticians-lost-in-the-woods … "How do they find each other?" by @rjallain"What if a typical family spent like the federal government? It’d be a very weird family" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp// … via @justinwolfers"The Tech Intellectuals" http://democracyjournal.org/30/the-tech-intellectuals.php?page=all … by @henryfarrell:-) http://hotdamndata.com/2013/09/the-happiest-emoticons.html … "The happiest emoticons"Be happy if you don't get any rewards! http://businessinsider.com/ …) "Maths Prizes Affects The Productivity of Winners" see"Long Lives Made Humans Human" http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/ …[map] "Comparison of the street networks of the downtowns of European and North American cities"[map] "Gentrification of Paris" http://cybergeo.revues.org/23231  see"Are citations the best way to assess an academic’s worth?" http://voxeu.org/article/…"Science and Statistics" http://sop.inria.fr/members/Ian.Jermyn/ … (the 1976 paper, by George Box)[demography] "Why Are You Not Dead Yet?" http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/…"Thinking about iPhone pricing" http://stratechery.com/2013/… by @monkbent"Is Bayesian Inference a Religion?" http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/… via @cynorrhodon for me, Bayesian statisticans are wizards http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/830 et comme réguliement, quelques billets en français,"Scotchés au bureau : le "présentéisme", cet autre mal français dont on ne parle jamais" http://atlantico.fr/decryptage/… via @MathieuPerona"Hausse inédite du niveau en maternelle" http://google.ca/url?sa=t&#38;rct=j&#38;q=&#38;esrc=s&#38;source=newssearch… via @SylvainCF (version complete de http://lemonde.fr/ecole-primaire-et-secondaire/article/…)"24 mois en Master" (de socio) http://socio-bd.blogspot.fr/… via @SH_lelabo[France] via @mompontet"Classes prépa" http://cafepedagogique.net/lexpresso/Pages/2013/09/ … via @dpernoux"La barbe" http://lactualite.com/opinions/le-blogue-de-jerome-lussier// … par @jeromelussier1999 sur internet http://blogdumoderateur.com/journee-type-internet-en-1999/ …"Chacun doit pouvoir faire des fautes d’orthographe sur Internet…" http://gingko.neottia.net/post/60960778840/c … par @michelguillou[Jean Veronis] http://rue89.com/2013/09/11/… et http://www.slate.fr/life/77566/jean-veronis-Did I miss something interesting?