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Some posts and articles worth reading, found somewhere else, on the web"What is everyone’s duty to prevent transmission of infectious diseases?" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/sunday-review/the-ethics-of-infection.html?smid=tw-share&#38;_r=0 …"The students who feel they have the right to cheat" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843 …on "the biggest financial cover-up in history" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106 …"When sea levels attack!" http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/when-sea-levels-attack-2/ …Average numbers of hours university students invest in their major per week (in Germany) via http://www.bmbf.de/pub/12._Studierendensurvey_barrierefrei.pdf …"When scientists report false data, does their writing style reflect their deception?" http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105937 … ht @kdnuggets"Big Data Takes Off in Insurance" https://strategymeetsaction.com/news-and-events/sma-blog/big-data-takes-off-in-insurance/ …"What Makes a Map Beautiful?" http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/3083/what-makes-a-map-beautiful … ht @visionscartovia @lauramclay What the election forecasting models got right &#38; wrong: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/upshot/what-the-forecasts-got-right-and-wrong.html … by @jshkatz"'A country is not a company': @NYTimeskrugman exposes business elites’ cluelessness about economic policy" http://www.salon.com/2014/11/03/a_country_is_not_a_company_paul_krugman_blasts_economically_clueless_business_elites/ …"What Is The World's Biggest Cash Crop?" http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/whats-the-worlds-biggest-cash-crops/ …Personal Finance, "Tech Nerds Outperform Finance Pros" http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-industry-invests-better-than-finance-2014-11 …"The Econometrics of Temporal Aggregation: 1956-2014" http://web.uvic.ca/~dgiles/downloads/NZAE/slides.pdf … by @deagiles"Scientists behaving badly" http://andrewgelman.com/2014/11/07/scientists-behaving-badly/ …"Is the thumb a finger? The medical danger of numbering digits" http://www.improbable.com/2014/11/04/is-the-thumb-a-finger-the-medical-danger-of-numbering-digits/ … by @GwinyaiMasukume"Counting with the fingers" http://www.osaka-ue.ac.jp/zemi/nishiyama/math2010/finger.pdf … ("cross the world there are 27 types of counting method using the fingers")“What if I were to tell you that belief in free will is negatively correlated with the desire to urinate?" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-philosophical-implications-of-the-urge-to-urinate/ …"If Antarctica were placed on the North Pole" via http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/ "Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments" http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2014.2014?journalCode=mnsc&#38; …"Lies, Damn Lies, and Expectations: How Base Rates Inform Lie–Truth Judgments" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3085/pdf …countries by food energy intake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake …"Greater use of social media gets science, scientists noticed, study says" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/uow-guo110614.php … ht @luckytran"A systematic literature review of blank pages in academic publishing" http://files.figshare.com/1780735/Intentionally_Left_Blank__final.pdf … ht @ivanoransky @fxcoudertRT @nytimes "How the slow response to Ebola in West Africa led to thousands of deaths" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/04/health/visuals-ebola-model.html?smid=tw-nytimes&#38;_r=0 …"The Truth About Score Effects" (in NHL) http://playfor60minutes.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/110/via @msgbi "Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true …Trickle down economics (via @unsisyphe and @rosselin)Origin of Mysterious Portuguese Mathematical &#38; Geographical Tiles Revealed http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/2014/11/05/origin-of-mysterious-portuguese-mathematical-and-geographical-tiles-revealed/ … by @JenniferFrazer"Big Data Overhyped? "No," Say Actual Scientists" http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2014/08/19/big-data-gartner-hype-cycle-otoh/ … ht @RiCHi香港夜空光度監察網絡 http://nightsky.physics.hku.hk/  (Hong Kong Night Sky Brightness)"A revealing map of the world’s most and least ethnically diverse countries" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/16/a-revealing-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-ethnically-diverse-countries/ … by @max_fisher (without clear explanation about what "ethnically diverse" could mean...)"How an Atlantic article is written, the timeline of revisions from 1st word to final version" http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-docs …"Which Environment to Choose for Data Science?" http://dataconomy.com/which-environment-to-choose-for-data-science … (from R to Python...)"Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code" http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261 … (with IPython)"When to fly to get there on time? Six million flights analyzed." http://www.decisionsciencenews.com/2014/11/06/flight-delays/ …"Big data could mean big risk" http://www.cnbc.com/id/102161090"How My Little Pony Became a Cult for Grown Men and Preteen Girls Alike" http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/11/understanding-the-cult-of-my-little-pony.html …"Are big cities expensive?" http://www.voxeu.org/article/are-big-cities-expensive …"Some are more equal than others" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-2 …"Zugezogene und echte Berliner - Wer kam, wer ging, wer heute hier wohnt" http://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/25-jahre-mauerfall/interaktiv/article133254520/Gebuertige-Berliner-und-Zugezogene-Wer-kam-wer-ging-wer-heute-hier-wohnt.html?config=interactive …avec un peu de lecture en français,"Vive vieux est-il une bonne chose pour la société ?" http://sciencespourtous.univ-lyon1.fr/vive-vieux-il-bonne-chose-societe/#sthash.0QzJpWfm.dpuf … par Stéphane Loisel, ht @CleoSchweyer"Le jour où un monde s'est défait sous nos yeux" http://blogs.afp.com/makingof/?post/mur-berlin-le-jour-ou-un-monde-s-est-defait-sous-nos-yeux …"L’analyse de données : un enjeu capital pour les assureurs de dommages" http://journal-assurance.ca/2014/10/01/lanalyse-de-donnees-un-enjeu-capital-pour-les-assureurs-de-dommages/ …"Ne jetez pas la pensée algorithmique avec la gouvernementalité algorithmique" http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=8987"Images non contractuelles" http://carfree.fr/index.php/2014/11/07/images-non-contractuelles/ … la place des voitures sur les affiches des projets immobiliers"L’esprit d’Occupy doit survivre" http://www.ledevoir.com/economie/actualites-economiques/422088/james-k-galbraith-au-devoir-l-esprit-d-occupy-doit-survivre … "On ne viendra jamais à bout des inégalités, mais il faut leur poser une limite""Quand le concours de selfies de la BCE dérape" http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/marches-financiers/0203911712544-quand-le-concours-de-selfies-de-la-bce-derape-1060819.php … via @gunthertviolence policière, exploitation médiatique du casseur et tensions pouvoir - mouvements écologistes http://www.lesinrocks.com/2014/11/07/actualite/sivens-gendarmerie-locale-avait-carte-blanche-depuis-mois-11534264/ … ht @Mathieu2jean"Gendarmes mobiles et gardes républicains: un vote très bleu-marine" http://www.ifop.com/media/pressdocument/758-1-document_file.pdf Did I miss something interesting?