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Some interesting posts and articles, here and there"Why Are We Still Teaching t-Tests?" http://matloff.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/why-are-we-still-teaching-about-t-tests/ … (ht @DiegoKuonen )"How Long Does It Take to Read Popular Books?" http://www.personalcreations.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-read-popular-books …"Do old folks love coffee more than youngsters?" http://insights.arima.io/post/95825289396/do-old-folks-love-coffee-more-than-youngsters …"Mythological names are on the rise; Pokémon, not so much" http://www.prooffreader.com/2014/09/mythological-names-are-on-rise-pokemon.html …"What Is the Most Efficient Source of Electricity?" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/what-is-the-most-efficient-source-of-electricity-1754/?mod=WSJBlog … by @ranimolla"Why the Economic Gender Gap Will Eventually Close" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/upshot/gauging-the-gender-gap-present-and-future.html … by @tylercowenuseR2014, @romain_francois's interview by @earino http://datascience.la/interview-with-romain-francois-at-user-2014/ …"missing piece to change university culture" http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n10/full/nbt.2706.html … ht @devillesy (I belive that the ratio would be more informative)"What we didn't learn from the economic crisis" http://www.vox.com/2014/9/12/6136391/martin-wolf-shifts-shocks-economic-financial-crisis-great-recession … by @titonka"A Short Introduction to Boosting" http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~stan/csi5387/boost-tut-ppr.pdf …"A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/ …"Digital Deception: Why, When and How People Lie Online " http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i216/s12/Hancock_DigitalDeception.pdf …"The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain" http://www.princeton.edu/~jcurrie/publications/fastfood.pdf …the Seasons Change Across America http://mic.com/articles/98770/watch-the-seasons-change-across-america-in-one-mesmerizing-gif …"Learning for a bonus: How financial incentives interact with preferences" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272714001431 … and "Does Gifted Education Work? For Which Students?" http://www.nber.org/papers/w20453"Extraneous factors in judicial decisions" http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889.full … Proportion of rulings in favor of the prisoners,"The case for open borders" http://www.vox.com/2014/9/13/6135905/open-borders-bryan-caplan-interview-gdp-double … by @dylanmatt"Animal species are going extinct anywhere 100 times the rates that would be expected..." http://projects.propublica.org/extinctions/ Geographers plotted the 7 deadly sins on a map of the U.S, http://imgur.com/a/MSdzi  (ht http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2gf7pq/regional_influence_of_the_7_deadly_sins/ …) e.g."The Race Gap in America’s Police Departments" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/03/us/the-race-gap-in-americas-police-departments.html?_r=0 …"How Music Migrated from Berlin, London, and Paris" https://insights.spotify.com/no/2014/09/09/music-migration/ …"Are Patients The Best Judge Of Physician Quality?" http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2014/09/13/are-patients-the-best-judge-of-physician-quality/ … (are students the best judge of professor quality...)"Life Expectancy EU vs. USA" http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/official/reports/cohesion6/6cr_en.pdf … (page 93)"Out with the old?" http://blog.oup.com/2014/09/rapid-innovation-consequences/ … (from http://restud.oxfordjournals.org/content/81/3/1003 …)climate change? (ht http://maptitude1.tumblr.com/ ) "number of days per year with temperature exceededing 100ºF" i.e. 37.7ºC"Never confuse risk and volatility" http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?date=20140910&#38;feed=OBR&#38;id=17923198#scpshrtu … ht @1ArmdEconomist"It's time to criminalise serious scientific misconduct" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329864.100-its-time-to-criminalise-serious-scientific-misconduct.html …no hipsters... no, wait... (ht @9gag)"All that reading …" http://freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/all-that-reading/ …"Why gender disaster data matters: ‘In some villages, all the dead were women’" http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/sep/08/disaster-humanitarian-response-data-gender?CMP=twt_gu …"World map of Y-DNA (native peoples)" (via http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2g87k1/world_map_of_ydna_native_peoples_1600880/ …)"Economics, Ecology and Ethics" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.fr/2014/09/economics-ecology-and-ethics.html … by @TCJUK"The Astonishing Story of the Federal Reserve on 9-11" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Astonishing-Story-of-the-Federal-Reserve-on-9-11# …On the morning of 11 September 2001, when Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. arrived at work in his office in the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, DC, he was alone. I don’t mean there weren’t other people in the building it’s just that it was a busy day and all the other members of the Fed Board of Governors who are normally in Washington were traveling. In fact, Ferguson was the only member of the Board who was anywhere near the District. Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Fed, along with William J. McDonough, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which is, in case you didn’t know, the first among equals in the Fed system) were both in Zurich, Switzerland at a meeting of central bankers. Actually, it was worse than that, Greenspan was on a commercial plane in route back to the US and was out of contact with his staff. (Remember, this was before wifi was available on flights.)Ferguson, considered a deliberative and thoughtful man by his staff, settled into his office and turned on his television to keep track of the markets. When the second plane hit the World Trade Center no one had to tell Ferguson, he knew the country was under attack and he already knew that the attack was aimed at the financial backbone of the world, lower Manhattan. Ferguson declared an emergency and all over the Fed stunned staff found assurance in going through emergency procedures for which they had prepared. The Joint Y2K Committee Ferguson had so recently headed proved to be a windfall of emergency planning and the entire Fed system referred back to those decisions and the associated training throughout the 9-11 crisis. By the time employees could all hear the muffled thump coming from the direction of the Pentagon and smoke could be seen out the windows the staff had secured themselves and the premises and they had started to organize their war room. The President, George W. Bush, was still reading a children’s book.  [to be continued...]"Making Top Colleges Less Aristocratic and More Meritocratic" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/upshot/making-top-colleges-less-aristocratic-and-more-meritocratic.html?partner=rss&#38;emc=rss&#38;abt=0002&#38;abg=0&#38;_r=0 …"Is working at night bad for you?" http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140909-is-working-at-night-bad-for-you …"How Many People Have Never Drunk Alcohol?" by @MonaChalabi ht @DianaBrazzell (a lot, actually)"When your surgeon accidentally leaves something inside you" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/04/when-your-surgeon-accidentally-leaves-something-inside-you …"What does randomness look like?" http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like …"How Likely Is It That Birth Control Could Let You Down?" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/14/sunday-review/unplanned-pregnancies.html?_r=0 … (always good to know)"How Should We Program Computers to Deceive?" http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/technology-deception-elevator-crosswalk-programming-robots-lie-89669/ …"Who’s Smart Enough to Buy Generic?" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/06/20/whos-smart-enough-to-buy-generic/ …"Understanding Hadoop Clusters and the Network" http://bradhedlund.com/2011/09/10/understanding-hadoop-clusters-and-the-network/ … ht @Terry_Timko"The Price of Excellence" http://www.runnersworld.com/health/the-price-of-excellence … "Forget "too much exercise," what about "too much chess"?" ht @tylercowenIn the U.S. "a map of the most overrepresented job in each state" (ht http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2g8c1m/a_map_of_the_most_overrepresented_job_in_each/ …)"Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It's All Over the Internet" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/how-big-data-peers-inside-your-medicine-chest.html …RT @wabarree "this is pretty much how academic projects go, in my experience" ht @tomroudet un peu de lecture en français,"Faut-il fact-checker les journalistes?" http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2014/09/16/faut-il-fact-checker-les-journalistes_1099199 … (comment si la question méritait d'être posée tellement la réponse semble évidente...)via @martin_anota "Les dangers qui nous guettent" par Olivier Blanchard http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/fre/2014/09/pdf/blanchard.pdf …via @nholzschuch @easyalexis"Pourquoi je lis des blogs de médecine" http://tut-tuuut.github.io/2014/09/08/je-lis-des-blogs-de-medecine.html … (qu'on devrait pouvoir étendre aux blogs de chercheurs)Yes ! http://www.midilibre.fr/2014/09/16/montpellier-adoptez-un-chercheur,1051687.php … "Adoptez un chercheur" ht @TomRoud et @SciencesEnMarch"La bataille de l'open data" http://creative.arte.tv/fr/open-data  ht @artecreative"La fièvre de l’évaluation" http://www.laviedesidees.fr/IMG/pdf/20140916_gingras.pdf … voir aussi le cours au Collège de France http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/pierre-michel-menger/seminar-2014-03-21-11h00.htm … par Yves Gingras (sinon il reste aussi le passionnant http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/291210775…)"qui achète encore à Paris et qui passe en banlieue ?" http://www.challenges.fr/actu-immo/20140915.CHA7709/immobilier-qui-achete-encore-a-paris-et-qui-passe-en-banlieue.html …"Une entreprise de terrorisme médiatique (notamment)" http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/09/15/une-entreprise-de-terrorisme-mediatique-notamment/#sthash.tJvICaME.dpuf … par @manhack"Le Big Data, un cauchemar pour la fraude bancaire" http://bigdatafrance.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/le-big-data-un-cauchemar-pour-la-fraude-bancaire/ … ht @baptistebeaume"Les Français ont du mal à se voir comme les descendants d'une immigration" http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2014/09/14/les-francais-ont-du-mal-a-se-voir-comme-les-descendants-d-une-immigration_4487236_3224.html … ht @lucbronnerDid I miss something interesting?