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Some posts and articles worth reading,"Financial Criminals Have Been Fined Billions, but They Rarely Pay" http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/financial-criminals-have-been-fined-billions-but-they-rarely-pay/380477/ …a review of "Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History" by Richard J. Evans http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119357/altered-pasts-reviewed-cass-r-sunstein …"World population stabilization unlikely this century" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/09/17/science.1257469 …Global Human Journey (ht http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2h1dah/global_human_journey_1980x1356/ …)The Big Bang Theory viewers keep on growing http://dadaviz.com/i/1014 "Making Big Data Think Bigger" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/making-big-data-think-bigger/?_php=true&#38;_type=blogs&#38;smid=tw-share&#38;_r=0 … by @SteveLohrin the U.S. "across the nation, income rise hints at recovery " http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/census-income-2013/ …"Why big data evangelists should be sent to re-education camps" http://www.zdnet.com/why-big-data-evangelists-should-be-sent-to-re-education-camps-7000033862/ …"very likely ... during the summer of 2014, R became the most widely used analytics software for scholarly article" http://www.pcworld.com/article/2480920/r-programming-language-gaining-ground-on-traditional-statistics-packages.html …"Currency Futures, Leveraged Funds positions" http://talyell.in/futures/ "Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329863.700-ethical-trap-robot-paralysed-by-choice-of-who-to-save.html#.VB3GVK0idO0 …"Big Data's Next Challenge: Heart Failure" http://www.fastcolabs.com/3035232/healthware/big-datas-next-challenge-heart-failure … by @nealungerSchrödinger's cat (ht @9gag)"Skepticism about the politics of smell" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/09/18/skepticism-about-the-politics-of-smell/ …The Angelina Jolie effect: how high celebrity profile can have a major impact on provision of cancer related services http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/16/5/442 …"Why The Math Of The Ebola Epidemic Is So Scary" http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/09/18/349341606/why-the-math-of-the-ebola-epidemic-is-so-scary …Theft or malfunction of mobile phones increase when a new model is launched http://www.nrk.no/telemark/advarer-mot-iphone-svindel-1.11935263 … ht @visionscarto"Outsmarting the placebo effect" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6203/1446.summary … (paywall, see also http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2008/12/placebo-effect-not-all-your-head … in 2008)"Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t" http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/algorithms-make-better-predictions-except-when-they-dont/ … by @thedatadoc1"This analysis of modern history is a prime example of why big data really matters" https://gigaom.com/2014/08/13/this-analysis-of-modern-history-is-a-prime-example-of-why-big-data-really-matters/ … ht @thedatacrunch"Data for a New York ‘Smellmap,’ Collected Sniff by Sniff" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/nyregion/the-data-for-a-map-collected-sniff-by-sniff.html?_r=0 …et un peu de lecture en français"De l’autonomie à la mise sous tutelle ?" http://terrainsdeluttes.ouvaton.org/?p=4040  "Contraintes budgétaires et stratégies gestionnaires des universités ""Louer ou acheter ? Les enjeux d’un dilemme" http://alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/parienty/2014/09/20/louer-ou-acheter-les-enjeux-d%E2%80%99un-dilemme/ … ht @obouba"Trois idées reçues sur l’éducation française" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/l-instit-humeurs/2014/09/13/3-idees-recues-sur-leducation-francaise-demontees-par-locde.html …"Notre société fabrique de plus en plus d'imposteurs" http://www.latribune.fr/blogs/mieux-dans-mon-job/20130402trib000757132/notre-societe-fabrique-de-plus-en-plus-d-imposteurs.html …"Référendum écossais: les réseaux sociaux étaient dans l'erreur" http://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/blogues/les-mutations-tranquilles/418966/referendum-ecossais-les-reseaux-sociaux-etaient-dans-l-erreur … par @FabienDeglise"Du volontarisme politique en économie (fable amorale)" http://leconome.blogs.liberation.fr/leconome/2014/09/du-volontarisme-politique-en-%C3%A9conomie-fable-amorale.html … par @g_allegreDid I miss something interesting?