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Some posts I found somewhere, on the internet"Why you overspend on Ebay?" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20305741    "The value of victory: social origins of the winner’s curse in common value auctions.""Groups and Rubik's cube" http://www.math.harvard.edu/~jjchen/docs/Group%20Theory%20and%20the%20Rubik's%20Cube.pdf …"Walmart' exponential growth" via https://wwwall-that-is-interesting.com/...  see also "Mapping the spread of Walmart in the continental US 1962-2006 http://bayesianbiologist.com/2012/08/26/walmart-invasion/ …"If Interest Rates Go Negative . . . Or, Be Careful What You Wish For" http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/if-interest-rates-go-negative-or-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html …"Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass" http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/08/drinking-too-much-blame-your-gla.html?rss=1 …“Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial"What Analytics, Data mining, Big Data software you used inthe past 12 months for a real project" http://www.kdnuggets.com/2012/05/top-analytics-data-mining-big-data-software.html …"Where in the U.S. do the fewest people have health insurance?"http://www. economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/08/daily-chart-12 … "Blogging Has Made Me a Better Scholar"http://www. balancingjane.com/5-ways-blogging-has-made-me-better.html?spref=tw … "As a scientist you do have the time to use Twitter( ...) what you’ll read below is how to use Twitter to save you time"http://www. mendelspod.com/blog/dont-have-time-to-tweet-bollocks …"Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages" http://journal.webscience.org/314/2/websci10_submission_79.pdf …"Twitter has become an established tool for scientists" http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2011/10/01/science-and-twitter-mixwell/EzccU9Fi5BxTTjmHZnQMoL/story.html …"Is the financial sector worth what we pay it?"http:// oecdinsights.org/is-the-financial-sector-worth-what-we-pay-it/ … "Same same but different!? The differential influence of smilies and emoticons on person perception"http://www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22394421"A Father Of High-Speed Trading [Thomas Peterffy] Thinks We Should Slow Down" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/27/159992076/a-father-of-high-speed-trading-thinks-we-should-slow-down?sc=tw&#38;cc=share … via @erikbryn"Predicting the Future: Randomness and Parsimony" http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.ca/2012/08/predicting-future-randomness-and.html … by @IgorCarron"How Much Does Campaign Spending Influence the Election?"http://www. freakonomics.com/2012/01/17/how-much-does-campaign-spending-influence-the-election-a-freakonomics-quorum/ … via @tomroud"Climate Change: Mega-Drought or Mega-Rain" via @Acclimatise http://econintersect.com/wordpress/?p=25249&#38;utm_source=buffer&#38;buffer_share=7f431 … and "Hundred-Year Forecast: Drought" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/extreme-weather-and-drought-are-here-to-stay.html?_r=1 …"In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for $5"http://www. nytimes.com/2011/08/20/technology/finding-fake-reviews-online.html … via @MrHonner and http://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1032.pdf … for the maths"Funding limited to star academics" http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/09/research-funding-for-star-academics …via @tnhh @ernestopriego"A Simple Non-Markovian Computational Model of the Statistics of Soccer Leagues" http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1848  via @lshlj"Knowing When To Fold ‘Em: The Science of Poker" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/08/27/knowing-when-to-fold-em-the-science-of-poker/ … by @JenLucPiquant via @BoraZ see also the awesome http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/papers/poker3.pdf …"Economic Pros and Cons of Longer Life Spans"http:// blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/08/28/economic-pros-and-cons-of-longer-life-spans/ …"Finance is in need of a technological revolution" by Andrew Lo http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/107466e2-ed2f-11e1-83d1-00144feab49a.html …"Example of Structural Equation Modeling in marketing"http:// joelcadwell.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/structural-equation-modeling-separating.html … "The evolution of language: Babel or babble?" http://www.economist.com/node/18557572?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/babel_or_babble_ … via @Calestous"A Scholar, An Expert, An Intellectual"http:// blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/08/21/a-scholar-an-expert-an-intellectual/ …et en français"Pourquoi les droits d’inscription universitaires s’envolent partout", par Isabelle Bruno http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/09/BRUNO/48136 …(aperçu seulement)"«Garder la confiance des marchés», drôle d'idée..." http://www.marianne2.fr/Gard…"La dette étudiante, une bombe à retardement" par Christopher Newfield http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/09/NEWFIELD/48135 … (version partielle)En France, « Le plan licence n’a servi à rien » http://www.leprogres.fr/france-monde/2012/08/28/le-plan-licence-n-a-servi-a-rien …"Economic Pros and Cons of Longer Life Spans"http:// blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/08/28/economic-pros-and-cons-of-longer-life-spans/ …Did I miss something interesting ?