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A (nonexhaustive) list of writings worth reading, discovered in September. How we classify animals  http://inference-review.com/article/on-being-a-fish "How Does The Electoral College Work?"  http://www.newstatesman.com/world/2016/09/clinton-vs-trump-how-does-electoral-college-work  allez, un peu de lecture sur les publications académiques  http://www.couperin.org/261-couperin/nos-activites/groupes-de-travail-et-projets-deap/a-la-une/1277-loi-pour-une-republique-numerique-definitivement-votee "Je viens d'appendre que je suis autiste..."  http://urbania.ca/233842/viens-dapprendre-suis-autiste/  Série de billets "Brexit" ce mois-ci  http://variances.eu/?p=251   http://variances.eu/?p=295   http://variances.eu/?p=1192  sur  http://variances.eu (à suivre) "Overfulfilling the Norm: The Better-Than-Average Effect in Judgments of Attitudes"  http://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1864-9335/a000280  "Winning the lottery makes you more likely to vote for incumbent politicians"  http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/688178 via @ cblatts  "Understanding the maths is crucial for protecting privacy"  https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/understanding-the-maths-is-crucial-for-protecting-privacy  "Understanding and Misunderstanding Randomized Controlled Trials"  http://www.nber.org/papers/w22595  "Vers un racisme (vraiment) français ?"  https://seenthis.net/messages/528096  via  http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/09/26/vers-un-racisme-vraiment-francais_5003205_3232.html (paywall) "A woman entering the job market can expect to do an average of 4 years more work than male peers over her lifetime"  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/22/women-do-four-years-more-work-than-men-in-lifetime-report-shows  Just Fixing Problems  http://xkcd.com/1739/ "Analyzing 205 718 Verified Twitter Users"  https://medium.com/startup-grind/analyzing-205-718-verified-twitter-users-cf0811781ac8 "Humans: Unusually Murderous Mammals, Typically Murderous Primates"  http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/humans-are-unusually-violent-mammals-but-averagely-violent-primates/501935/  see…  https://twitter.com/i/web/status/781201929837740032  "What Facebook Knows About You"  https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-what-facebook-knows-about-you  "Le journaliste l’ignore, mais les mots ont un sens"  https://www.slate.fr/story/123555/critique-journalisme  "When world leaders thought you shouldn’t need passports or visas"  https://theconversation.com/when-world-leaders-thought-you-shouldnt-need-passports-or-visas-64847  "The Fundamental Limits of Machine Learning"  http://nautil.us/blog/the-fundamental-limits-of-machine-learning  "Apolitical Reasons to Hate Politics"  http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2016/09/apolitical_reas.htmlvia @ tylercowen  "Il est urgent de sortir de l’obsession du comptage pour parler de science différemment"  https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/ces-articles-aux-mille-et-une-signatures "Is This Why Deutsche Bank Is Crashing (Again)?"  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-20/why-deutsche-bank-crashing-again "Il y a peu d’éléments nouveaux dans le débat (...) qui s’ouvre à la suite du papier de Romer"  http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/09/26/la-theorie-economique-dominante-trente-ans-de-malheur_1511254  par Bruno Amable understanding MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo)  https://nicercode.github.io/guides/mcmc/ via @ gcosma1  "d’élève moyen dans les années 2000, l’école française est devenue la plus inégalitaire de l’OCDE"  http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/09/27/comment-le-systeme-francais-aggrave-ineluctablement-les-inegalites-scolaires_5003800_4401467.html "Les écritures ordinaires de la recherche"  https://sms.hypotheses.org/1502  ht @ lgayme  chez @ MondesSociaux  "Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is a philosophical dialetheia"  https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-duchamp-s-fountain-be-both-art-and-not-art  art and non-art at the same time (Schrödinger's urinal) "We don’t have an archetype — fictional or otherwise — through which to understand Hillary Clinton"  http://boingboing.net/2016/09/15/to-find-hillary-clinton-likabl.html  "The Epic Collapse of Deutsche Bank"  http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-epic-collapse-deutsche-bank/  (back in July 2016) When 62 000 people click wherever they want  http://boltkey.cz/multiclick_analysis/  "Why red-dominated autumn leaves in America and yellow-dominated autumn leaves in Northern Europe?"  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02904.x/full  "Facial attractiveness of the opposite sex gives rise to discrepancies in males’anticipation and demand"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1002/ijop.12393  "Companies That Discriminate Fail (Eventually)"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-23/companies-that-discriminate-fail-eventually  by @ Noahpinion  "Les villes de la science dans le monde"  http://mappemonde.mgm.fr/num44/articles/art14401.html  ht @ carnetsDM (oui, la carte date un peu) "The Deadly Business Of War-Zone Medical Care"  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/doctors-without-borders-has-a-difficult-year-in-war-zones-a-1112009-druck.html "The Depression Was Great For The American Kitchen"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-23/the-depression-was-great-for-the-american-kitchen  "Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not related"  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191491X16300323  "Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job"  http://boingboing.net/2016/09/08/blackballed-by-machine-learnin.html via @ recifs  "How cooperative behaviour could make artificial intelligence more human"  https://theconversation.com/how-cooperative-behaviour-could-make-artificial-intelligence-more-human-64177  "What’s the point of maths research? It’s the abstract nonsense behind tomorrow’s breakthroughs"  https://theconversation.com/whats-the-point-of-maths-research-its-the-abstract-nonsense-behind-tomorrows-breakthroughs-64141 "Against happiness: Companies that try to turn happiness into a management tool are overstepping the mark"  http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21707502-companies-try-turn-happiness-management-tool-are-overstepping-mark?frsc=dg%7Ca  "Theorizing about Ancient Economies"  https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/theorizing-about-ancient-economies-6ef0c953809e#.o2rb2iegc  by @ MarkKoyama great story  http://www.racked.com/2016/9/19/12865560/politics-of-pockets-suffragettes-women  "The history of pockets isn’t just sexist, it’s political" "What You See Is What You Get?"  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-we-see/ We need to examine why it is taken for granted that teaching work is less valued and less prestigious than research  http://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/changing-value-of-teaching-in-universities/ "The natural selection of bad science"  http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/9/160384  "Everybody Thinks They’re Middle-Class"  https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/middle-class/  Incentive malus  http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21707513-poor-scientific-methods-may-be-hereditary-incentive-malus  stop rewarding researchers who publish copiously over those who publish fewer, higher-quality papers "Money isn't enough. Medical research needs a cultural revolution"  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/medical-research-money-zuckerberg-chan-foundation  "Jean-Claude Dusse du contre-terrorisme"  http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/24/jean-claude-dusse-du-contre-terrorisme/  "La résistance aux antibiotiques est une « menace fondamentale », avertit l’ONU"  http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2016/09/21/l-onu-mobilise-sur-la-menace-fondamentale-que-represente-la-resistance-aux-antibiotiques_5001511_3244.html  "Informing the public about science can become nearly indistinguishable from efforts to promote it"  http://nautil.us/blog/the-problem-with-science-writing  "Chronique de la folie policière ordinaire"  https://blogs.mediapart.fr/christian-salmon/blog/230916/chronique-de-la-folie-policiere-ordinaire  "Is science only for the rich?"  http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650  "poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers" "Many people believe that grocery stores keep their milk in the back corner of the store for a nefarious reason"  https://medium.com/@russroberts/why-is-milk-in-the-back-of-the-store-1fda04c7c55c#.yx0psaih0  "Are Firms That Discriminate More Likely to Go Outof Business?"  https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/vol-3/september/SocSci_v3_849to859.pdf  "The Rise of the Trump Academic"  https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/blog/the-rise-of-the-trump-academic.html  "Is science only for the rich?"  http://www.nature.com/news/is-science-only-for-the-rich-1.20650  "poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers" "Many people believe that grocery stores keep their milk in the back corner of the store for a nefarious reason"  https://medium.com/@russroberts/why-is-milk-in-the-back-of-the-store-1fda04c7c55c#.yx0psaih0  "'Shanty Mega-structures' rise above a future Lagos"  https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/14/the-big-picture-olalekan-jeyifous-shanty-mega-structures/  sympathy cards, ht @ MartheHR  "How a remote archipelago in Hudson Bay is using digital cartography to put itself on the map"  https://thewalrus.ca/where-the-streets-have-no-names/  "Trois mille ans d’informatique"  https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/trois-mille-ans-dinformatique  Statistical Errors "Les enfants « dyspraxiques », poissons-pilotes du numérique ?"  http://www.actualitice.fr/les-enfants-dyspraxiques-poissons-pilotes-du-numerique  "We bought into Silicon Valley’s utopian view of digital technology, and now we are paying for our gullibility"  https://aeon.co/essays/the-internet-as-an-engine-of-liberation-is-an-innocent-fraud  "Un demi-siècle d’espérance de vie pour trois pays africains"  http://visionscarto.net/un-demi-siecle-d-esperance-de-vie  par @ rekacewicz  On the orthography of heteros*edasticity  http://www.rwi-essen.de/media/content/pages/publikationen/ruhr-economic-papers/REP_11_300.pdf  "Specification Searches: AdHoc Inference with Non Experimental Data"  http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/edward.leamer/books/specification_searches/SpecificationSearches.pdf  "Why science and engineering need to remind students of forgotten lessons from history"  https://theconversation.com/why-science-and-engineering-need-to-remind-students-of-forgotten-lessons-from-history-61356  "Are Randomized Controlled Trials the (G)old Standard? From Clinical Intelligence to Prescriptive Analytics"  http://www.jmir.org/2016/7/e185/  "On the analogy between field experiments in economics and clinical trials in medicine"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1080/1350178x.2016.1157202  "Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics"  http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.24.2.3  "Are Randomised Controlled Trials the Gold Standard?"  http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/research/concludedResearchProjects/ContingencyDissentInScience/DP/Cartwright.pdf  "Randomised Controlled Trials are referred to as the "gold standard" of empirical econometric research"  http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/gold_standard_that_was_abandoned_you_know  "Socio-economic inequality in science is on the rise"  http://www.nature.com/news/socio-economic-inequality-in-science-is-on-the-rise-1.20654  "To leave a child alone, even for a few minutes, is treated as grounds for a child-abuse investigation"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-12/don-t-leave-your-kids-near-judgmental-strangers  “La science économique en crise doit imiter la médecine” https://beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/la-science-economique-en-crise-doit-imiter-la-medecine-reflexions-sur-cahuc-zylberberg-et-romer/  par @ Undercoverhist  , passionnant "Cut-throat academia leads to 'natural selection of bad science', claims study"  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/cut-throat-academia-leads-to-natural-selection-of-bad-science-claims-study?CMP=share_btn_tw  "Even with best intentions, whether peer review identifies high-quality science is unknown"  http://www.nature.com/news/let-s-make-peer-review-scientific-1.20194?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews  Efficient R programming (online book)  https://csgillespie.github.io/efficientR/  via @ KirkDBorne  "c'est l'enfeR"  http://bioinfo-fr.net/cest-lenfer  (voir aussi  http://www.burns-stat.com/documents/books/the-r-inferno/  ) par @ g_devailly  (surprisingly) "Statistical Evidence Suggests Russia's Ruling Party Cheated Its Way to Supermajority"… https://themoscowtimes.com/news/statistical-evidence-suggests-russias-ruling-party-cheated-its-way-to-a-supermajority-55396 "Nasa: des mathématiciennes noires au cœur de la conquête spatiale américaine"  http://information.tv5monde.com/terriennes/nasa-des-mathematiciennes-noires-au-coeur-de-la-conquete-spatiale-americaine-129110  voir aussi  http://observer.com/2016/09/meet-the-black-female-mathematicians-who-helped-nasa-win-the-space-race/  "Even Good Bots Fight"  http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04285  via  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602421/the-growing-problem-of-bots-that-fight-online/  "The Science of Boredom"  http://www.livescience.com/56162-science-of-boredom.html  "Crise de la dette étudiante, la grosse bulle qui monte aux Etats-Unis"  http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/09/18/crise-de-la-dette-etudiante-la-grosse-bulle-qui-monte-aux-etats-unis_1501967  "America’s Pacific pivot is sinking"  https://www.ft.com/content/12473188-7db4-11e6-8e50-8ec15fb462f4  , see also  http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-to-the-us-hey-mind-your-own-business-in-the-south-china-sea-2016-3  "How has rape become such a common trope of television drama?"  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/how-has-rape-become-such-a-common-trope-of-television-drama/article31931181/  "Have big banks gotten safer?"  https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/have-big-banks-gotten-safer/  see also  https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers/fallacies-irrelevant-facts-myths-discussion-capital-regulation-why  "Real Risks in Big Banks’ ‘Merchant Banking’ Activities"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/business/dealbook/real-risks-in-big-banks-merchant-banking-activities.html  in the U.S., "the wage gap between blacks and whites is the worst it's been in nearly four decades"  http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/20/news/economy/black-white-wage-gap/index.html?sr=twCNN092016black-white-wage-gap1109AMVODtopLink&#38;linkId=28986262  Les étudiants sont comme des crocodiles, impassibles, donnant l'impression de ne pas suivre, et puis, d'un coup  http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/entretiens/pedagogie-comment-enseigner-a-des-etudiants-crocodiles.html  clac "Most systematic reviews and meta-analysis are wrong, misleading or conflicted"  http://qz.com/784615/the-man-who-made-scientists-question-themselves-has-just-exposed-huge-flaws-in-evidence-used-to-give-drug-prescriptions/  "How universities boost economic growth"  https://theconversation.com/how-universities-boost-economic-growth-65017  "Academics are unhappy – it’s time to transform our troubled university system"  https://theconversation.com/academics-are-unhappy-its-time-to-transform-our-troubled-university-system-62682  "Welfare support across the U.S. and Scandinavian samples can be substantially and statistically indistinguishable"  http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/62626887/Crowding_Out_Culture_Aar_e_Petersen.pdf  "Dignity and Sadness in the Working Class"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/opinion/dignity-and-sadness-in-the-working-class.html  "The Building Blocks Of Japanese Cuisine"  http://luckypeach.com/guides/building-blocks-japanese-cuisine/  "Facebook Algorithmic Factory (3) : Quantified Lives on Discount"  https://labs.rs/en/quantified-lives/, "Facebook Algorithmic Factory (2) : Human Data Banks and Algorithmic Labour"  https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-human-data-banks-and-algorithmic-labour/ and "Facebook Algorithmic Factory (1) : Immaterial Labour and Data Harvesting"  https://labs.rs/en/facebook-algorithmic-factory-immaterial-labour-and-data-harvesting/  "A visual history of women’s tennis"  https://ig.ft.com/sites/visual-history-of-womens-tennis/  ht @ recifs  "Le nirvana des économistes"  http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/le-nirvana-des-economistes_fr_art_1446_76781.html  Les assureurs et les données individuelles,  http://www.louisbachelier.org/actualites/interview-arthur-charpentier-prevention-probablement-seul-levier-lequel-assureurs-peuvent-utiliser-donnees-personnelles/  "AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You’re Pixelated"  https://www.wired.com/2016/09/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show/?mbid=social_fb  "When Humanitarianism Became Imperialism"  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/when-humanitarianism-became-imperialism  ht @ cdb_77  via @ NinjaEconomics  : Price of insulin sold by two different companies (there are two lines here) "Europeans are not used to seeing a Black man in a position of power."  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/57dc0359e4b053b1ccf2986d  ht @ tylercowen  Looks like Deutsche Bank has got serious issues  http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/255695/deutsche-bank-doj-fine-investment-bank/  (according to J.P. Morgan this time) "Les autistes, otages de petits intérêts et de grosses embrouilles"  https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/180916/les-autistes-otages-de-petits-interets-et-de-grosses-embrouilles?onglet=full  Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968)  http://flashbak.com/why-charles-m-schulz-gave-peanuts-a-black-character-1968-47081  ht @ rekacewicz  All terrorism events between 1970-2016  https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/533ieu/higres_world_map_of_all_terrorism_events_between/?st=it7rslg7&#38;sh=98cf20d7  Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice trends since the late 1970s  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425716302218  "If you're on the road in the United Kingdom, it might be time to put away the phone"  http://mashable.com/2016/09/17/texting-while-driving-uk-fines/#2sAhUaHrkmq0  "A Timeline of Big Data Analytics"  https://ctovision.com/timeline-big-data-analytics/  "Les géants de l’Internet s’intéressent surtout aux services financiers pour collecter des données clients"  http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/0211279934201-gafa-le-danger-se-precise-pour-les-banquiers-et-les-assureurs-traditionnels-2026728.php#xtor=CS1-33  "When You Cannot Generalize"  https://medium.com/@nntaleb/where-you-cannot-generalize-from-knowledge-of-parts-continuation-to-the-minority-rule-ce96ca3c5739#.2levcy6uf  "The Origin of Populist Surges Everywhere"  https://medium.com/@auerswald/the-origin-of-populist-surges-everywhere-1146f89e04bb?swoff=true  "The Difference Between Rationality and Intelligence"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/the-difference-between-rationality-and-intelligence.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&#38;smtyp=cur&#38;_r=0  "La propagande des algorithmes ? Vraiment ?"  http://internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/17/la-propagande-des-algorithmes-vraiment/  "La grande désillusion de la recherche"  http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science-et-technologie/480207/recherche-la-grande-desillusion  "Petites réflexions sur la neutralité du chercheur"  http://blogs.univ-poitiers.fr/o-bouba-olga/2016/09/17/petites-reflexions-sur-la-neutralite-du-chercheur-ou-la-nouvelle-erreur-de-cahuc-et-zylberberg/  par @ obouba  "Statistics for Hackers"  https://youtu.be/L5GVOFAYi8k  by @ jakevdp  "To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of a sick black man in their custody"  https://hdp.press/to-the-4-white-male-policemen-who-beat-me-for-checking-the-health-of-a-sick-black-man-in-their-8d77789fb24d#.4h5jux26c  ht @ cblatts  "Donald Trump n’est pas le représentant d’une idéologie, mais plutôt celui d’un monde revenu de toutes les idées"  http://www.ledevoir.com/international/etats-unis/480166/pourquoi-trump-n-est-pas-fasciste  "Why So Many Poor Americans Don’t Get Help Paying For Housing"  http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-so-many-poor-americans-dont-get-help-paying-for-housing/  Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot by Playing Grand Theft Auto  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602317/self-driving-cars-can-learn-a-lot-by-playing-grand-theft-auto/  (should warn my students that it won't work for them) "Income and earnings inequality in Great Britain: the Gini coefficient, 1978 to 2009"  http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/economics-for-everyone/for-a-wider-audience/do-you-know/1-figure/income-and-earnings-inequality-in-great-britain-the-gini-coefficient-1978-to-2009  Incohérences (?), par @ XavierGorce   http://xaviergorce.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/16/incoherences/  Le recours déposé contre l’accord entre Microsoft et l’Education Nationale rejeté par le tribunal de grande instance  http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2016/09/08/microsoft-leducation-nationale-mecenat-marche-public-dissimule-265104  Tragedies "Sinusite et risque de cancer : l'art de détourner une étude sérieuse"  http://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/decouverte-scientifique/sinusite-et-risque-de-cancer-l-art-de-detourner-une-etude-serieuse_1823577.html  ht @ Monolecte  "A l’heure où les Américains se convertissent aux charmes de la vitesse, la France semble prendre le chemin inverse"  http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/09/14/des-tgv-aux-cars-macron_4997524_3234.html  Deutsche Bank Is Asked to Pay $14bn to Resolve U.S. Probe Into Mortgage Securities  http://www.wsj.com/articles/deutsche-bank-is-asked-to-pay-14-billion-to-resolve-u-s-probe-into-mortgage-securities-1473975404  "Le sommeil est un truc de losers"  https://www.letemps.ch/societe/2016/09/13/un-monde-neoliberal-sommeil-un-truc-losers  ht @ monde_libre  "Sitting Alone in the Cafeteria"  http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/09/when-kids-sit-alone/498587/  see also  http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2016/09/sitting-alone/500102/    "When Did Charts Become Popular?"  https://priceonomics.com/when-did-charts-become-popular/  "How the Presidential Forecasts Have Changed "  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/upshot/as-clinton-trump-race-tightens-heres-how-forecast-models-differ.html?_r=0  "The Babel paradox"  https://deltanomics.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/the-babel-paradox/  Présenter l'économie et la data à des codeurs, le défi du Breizh Camp 2016,  https://youtu.be/kmzPt9Z_AD4?t=13m9s  Lire la chronique de @ econoclaste  me donnerait presque envie de lire le pavé (dans la gueule)  http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/econoclaste/?page_id=10370&#38;codenote=227  "How to Tell If You’re a Jerk"  http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-jerk  "Les patients, ces experts"  http://www.lemonde.fr/festival/article/2016/09/12/les-patients-ces-experts_4996552_4415198.html  "Why Does Methodology Matter for Economics?"  http://public.econ.duke.edu/~kdh9/Source%20Materials/Research/WhyMethodologyMatters.pdf  "Economic Methodology in a Nutshell"  http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ctahr/aheed/Carl/supplementary%20readings/Hausman_1989_Economic_Methodology_in_a_Nutshell.pdf  "How Do You Know if Dice Are Really Fair?"  http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a22856/dice-mathematically-fair/?src=socialflowTW  "The prominent critique of screens as alienating is less about screens than about who counts as fully human"  http://reallifemag.com/face-to-interface/  Art can't stop famine in sub-Saharan Africa or cure Zika. But art does change the world incrementally and by osmosis  http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/tyranny-of-art-history-in-contemporary-art.html  “Worldwide Many See Belief in God As Essential to Morality: Richer Nations Are Exception“  http://www.thecritique.com/articles/africa-the-problem-of-evil/  "A brilliant American scientist formulates the evolutionary basis of altruism — then puts it to the test"  http://mosaicscience.com/story/George-Price-altruism-equation  "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet"  https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html  "Police forces are stockpiling massive databases with personal information"  https://data.postandcourier.com/saga/watched/page/1  How do you pronunce "Dirichlet" ? according to  http://pronouncemath.blogspot.fr/2013/03/johann-dirichlet-pronunciation.html  [diʀiˈkleː] but when you look at the origin  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet  … but he's coming from a city in Belgium named "Richelette" so it should have been [diʀiʃlɛt] I knew it!  http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-chart-7?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fbeerandbiblesdontmix&#38;%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc  "Beer and bibles don’t mix" "Pour comprendre la France, j’ajoute des cons sur Facebook"  http://www.vice.com/fr/read/j-ajoute-des-cons-sur-facebook-909?utm_source=vicefrtw  (Sociology 101, où avant ça peut être) "I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad"  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/lionel-shrivers-full-speech-i-hope-the-concept-of-cultural-appropriation-is-a-passing-fad  "Top-down models predict what we’re going to see, bottom-up models perceive the real world"  http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-up/  Bayes, all the way up L'inscription à l'université... ht @ FabienBP  "Le Gabon, un pays en danger de mort"  http://www.marianne.net/agora-gabon-pays-danger-mort-100245721.html  ht @ monde_libre  waouh, this will save me hours...  http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html  draw a symbol, and get the latex name for it the shrinking Aral Sea  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=84437  , with a stricking picture via @ rekacewicz  (Switzerland for scale) Visualiser le tourisme dans le monde,  http://visionscarto.net/tourisme-en-2011  par @ rekacewicz  "Chinese lecturer to use facial-recognition technology to check boredom levels among his students"  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/12/facial-recognition-technology-used-in-chinese-classroom-to-check/  La blog  http://variances.eu  est lancé  http://variances.eu/index.php/2016/09/12/variances-eu-est-lance/  "Providing evidence to policymakers through committees is a great way for researchers to influence policy debates"  http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/09/07/giving-evidence-in-parliament-a-how-to-guide-for-academics/  bientôt, quelques lois autour de l'université  http://www.lesechos.fr/politique-societe/societe/0211277213464-najat-vallaud-belkacem-universites-une-loi-en-novembre-pour-un-master-reforme-a-la-rentree-2017-2026407.php  "with data comes responsibility"  http://claudiasahm.postagon.com/9xngxrgw9  Journées Big Data  https://jstar2016.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3  20-21 Octobre à l'AgroCampus, Rennes Plus riche, plus intéressant  http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=ARSS_184_0038  "L’enracinement social de la mortalité routière" ht @ dirtydenys  manifestement, @ GrosPascal  connait mes filles "Les contes de la crypto"  http://www.telerama.fr/medias/les-contes-de-la-crypto,147098.php  "Des accidents de la route pas si accidentels"  https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/08/GROSSETETE/56078  voir aussi il y a 10 ans  https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2005/09/RENAHY/12775  "Nobody understands why deep neural networks are so good at solving complex problems."  http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225  ht  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602344/the-extraordinary-link-between-deep-neural-networks-and-the-nature-of-the-universe/  "Temperatures Rise, and We’re Cooked"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/temperatures-rise-and-were-cooked.html?_r=0  "As digital applications encroach on various aspects of daily life, the impact on the economy will help us..."  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/09/varian.htm  "What Actuaries Should Know About Nonparametric RegressionWith Missing Data"  http://www.variancejournal.org/articlespress/articles/What-Efromovich.pdf  "The police are being militarised – should we be worried?"  https://theconversation.com/the-police-are-being-militarised-should-we-be-worried-65050  (information like that is quite easy to compromise)  https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/774341408417320960  "If you have a security question like 'What's your mother's maiden name?' make sure it's not actually her name"  http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/hackers-messed-with-the-wrong-guy-waterloo-computer-science-student-1.3058315  "September 11's indirect toll: road deaths linked to fearful flyers"  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/05/september-11-road-deaths  "an extra 1595 Americans died in car accidents" et si je dis tapez "le nom de l'article que vous cherchez" sous  http://sci-hub.bz/  , ça devient légal ? dont pointer vers un article sur  http://sci-hub.bz/  serait illégal ?  https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/774334393334792196  "La diffusion de liens hypertexte menant à des contenus piratés est-elle elle-même illégale ?"  http://www.numerama.com/politique/193536-liens-hypertextes-legaux-illegaux-on-resume.html  Place name origins of Great Britain, Ireland and Northwest France  https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/51ir4o/place_name_origins_of_great_britain_ireland_and/  "The Three Most Important Words? 'I Don't Know'"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-09/the-three-most-important-words-i-don-t-know  by @ ritholtz  September 9th "Welcome to Academic Torrents!"  http://academictorrents.com/  "If you analyze data without considering causality, you open your results to the possibility of enormous biases"  https://medium.com/@akelleh/a-technical-primer-on-causality-181db2575e41#.7jl15iou7  "How Switzerland Accidentally Reduced Suicides"  http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/switzerland-military-gun-suicide/499028/  see also  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1521/suli.2010.40.5.421  Les coulisses de l'open-data  http://blog.alphoenix.net/2016/09/les-coulisses-de-lopen-data/  "Sur la situation en France des personnes, enfants et adultes, atteintes d’autisme"  http://www.ccne-ethique.fr/sites/default/files/publications/ccne-avisn102_autisme.pdf  en 2007, effarant "A user is far more likely to enter a wrong and valid email address than they are to enter an invalid one."  https://hackernoon.com/the-100-correct-way-to-validate-email-addresses-7c4818f24643  "La science économique est-elle infaillible?" Troublante cette question quand même, parce que c'est une question qu'on peut poser pour toutes les sciences, non ?  http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/0211273995035-la-science-economique-est-elle-infaillible-6-economistes-repondent-2026185.php#xtor=CS1-33  "L’intelligence artificielle va-t-elle rester impénétrable ?"  http://www.internetactu.net/a-lire-ailleurs/lintelligence-artificielle-va-t-elle-rester-impenetrable/  ht @ jbbardet   "Syria’s Paradox: Why the War Only Ever Seems to Get Worse"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-why-get-worse.html "Pregnancy vs. Longevity"  https://public.tableau.com/profile/eric.brown2263#!/vizhome/GestationPeriod5/GestationPeriod  (here mammals, excl. whales) "What do people mention in their Tinder profiles?"  http://katiehempenius.com/post/tinder-profile-analysis/  "How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children" (like Terry Tao, or Lady Gaga)  http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-super-smart-children-1.20537  "Who were the 'Charlie' in the Streets? A Socio-Political Approach of January 11 Rallies"  http://www.rips-irsp.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.63/  "These travel time maps show how British cities are connected by rail"  http://www.citymetric.com/transport/these-travel-time-maps-show-how-well-or-badly-british-cities-are-connected-rail-1483  ht @ rekacewicz  "Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles"  https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=EEAESEM2016&#38;paper_id=398  "Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths"  http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/cursive-handwriting-and-other-education-myths  via @ goulu  "L'intelligence, c'est pas sorcier, il suffit de penser à une connerie et de dire l'inverse" Big Data &#38; Big Brother (via @ GrosPascal  ) Le jihadisme  http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/07/brrrt/  "Why Darwin would have loved evolutionary game theory"  http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1838/20160847  Neonatal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/neonatal-mortality-rate-per-1000-live-births?year=1980  , 1980 vs 2015 "How algorithms rule our working lives"  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/01/how-algorithms-rule-our-working-lives  "Reading and the Demand for Books"  http://www.digitopoly.org/2016/09/07/reading-and-the-demand-for-books/  via @ MarkThoma  "Big Data Comes With the Biases of Its Creators"  http://time.com/4477557/big-data-biases/  "Scientists Are Worried About 'Peer Review by Algorithm’"  http://motherboard.vice.com/read/scientists-are-worried-about-peer-review-by-algorithm-statcheck  Genomics papers and Excel errors  http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/daily-chart-3  "Generali lance l’assurance comportementale"  http://www.mutualite.fr/actualites/sante-generali-lance-lassurance-comportementale/  voir aussi  http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/0211262272156-sante-generali-va-recompenser-les-bons-comportements-2025263.php?P6GemRsVtAYSPHgt.99  ou  http://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/actualites/article/2016/09/06/des-bons-dachat-pour-les-patients-vertueux-comment-generali-va-coacher-ses-assures_824426  "Former government officials as outside directors: The role of human and social capital"  http://static.usnews.com/documents/nw/FormerGovernmentOfficials.pdf  Homer Simpson and America's middle class  http://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12752476/the-simpsons-homer-middle-class  History And Theory Of Robot Economics  https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/09/06/robot-macroeconomics-what-can-theory-and-several-centuries-of-economic-history-teach-us/  just what I was looking for "I am not advocating a cashless society. But a less-cash society would be a fairer and safer place."  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dangers-of-paper-currency-by-kenneth-rogoff-2016-09 certains #blameitonrocard sont de réelles perles "Le système de recherche favorise les personnalités narcissiques"  http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2016/09/05/bruno-lemaitre-le-systeme-de-recherche-favorise-les-personnalites-narcissiques_4992765_1650684.html  (#paywall) voir plutôt  http://doobymedia.com/read/ebook.php?id=B01DS47AN4  I'm sure you've already asked yourself "why"...  http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160902-why-paper-cuts-hurt-so-much?ocid=global_future_rss  "Why paper cuts hurt so much" "Geographic density of map tile queries to openstreetmap"  http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tyr_asd/diary/39434  ht @ liotier  important (mathematical) question (even though a bit late),  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/crosswords/crossing-the-pool.html?_r=1&#38;referer=  by @ drmaths  "Le monde change… l’université aussi !"  https://theconversation.com/le-monde-change-luniversite-aussi-63551  par @ reeastes  , ht @ FabienneCASSAGN  @ sophie2ze  "La France en recul dans le classement mondial QS des universités"  http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/09/06/la-france-en-recul-dans-le-classement-mondial-qs-des-universites_4992965_4401467.html#SGQojBgQMIOYPMGs.99  "UK universities tumble in world rankings amid Brexit concerns"  https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/sep/05/uk-universities-fall-world-rankings-brexit-concerns?CMP=share_btn_tw  le concept de « lanceur d’alerte² »  http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2016/08/30/un-lanceur-d-alerte-peut-en-cacher-un-autre_4989947_3232.html  bonne résolution de la rentrée: je change de stratégie pour finir mes papiers de recherche en stand-by cet été "de plus en plus d’universitaires se retrouvent au tribunal pour diffamation"  http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/09/05/accuse-chercheur-levez-vous_1484657  "Only the costliest catastrophe could turn reinsurance pricing"  http://www.artemis.bm/blog/2016/09/05/only-the-costliest-catastrophe-could-turn-reinsurance-pricing-rbc/  "Thunder From The East"  http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/cover-story/thunder-from-the-east  Je cherche l'adjectif qui décrit le mieux mon état d'ahurissement (j'ai du mal)  https://youtu.be/pqKA1MqPA_U  via @ mtiques (la vidéo est mythique) et bientôt 60% d'une classe d'âge admise en master  https://twitter.com/Elysee/status/771283746209271809  pas de sélection à l'entrée de la licence, du master, dans le master.… mais pourquoi fait-on encore passer des exams http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2016/09/05/la-justice-donne-raison-a-une-infirmiere-refusee-en-master-droit-de-la-sante_4992895_4401467.html  "Au delà de la discrimination positive"  http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Au-dela-de-la-discrimination-positive.html  "Some teenagers are opting out of the relentless pursuit of ‘likes’ on Facebook and Instagram"  http://www.wsj.com/articles/teens-who-say-no-to-social-media-1472136877  Assurance et mutualisation  http://www.journaldunet.com/economie/finance/1183964-le-big-data-va-aider-les-assureurs-a-mieux-gerer-le-risque/  "à charge du régulateur de lutter contre les dérives de la personnalisation à l'extrême" "I don't wanna go back to school!" ht @ MeanwhileinCana  "Alors c'est qui les casseurs ?"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NSgeu-7_Y  (bientôt la version intégrale en ligne.... à suivre donc) "Certified Random: A New Order for Co-Authorship"  http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/debraj/Papers/RayRobsonRandom.pdf  "Want a Free Market? Abolish Cash"  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-01/want-a-free-market-abolish-cash  by @ kocherlakota009  "Should ineliminable incompetence play a bigger role in economic and political thinking?"  http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2016/09/on-incompetence.html  "Goodbye, Ivory Tower. Hello, Silicon Valley Candy Store"  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/technology/goodbye-ivory-tower-hello-silicon-valley-candy-store.html  (about  http://www.people.hbs.edu/pcoles/  ) "A pickup isn’t a pickup unless it’s big"  https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-american-pickup/  ... or the False Size  http://thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTY3NjY1MjY.MTI5MTMxOTY*MjQ3NzQwODE(ODYwMjIwNg~!CL*MTMyMTQ5NTg.MjE2MDczMDU)MQ  of Brazil and Chile The True (or Flase) Size  http://thetruesize.com/  of Algeria, Groenland, Chile, Brasil Les jeunes autistes, oubliés par la société  http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_comment-se-fait-il-qu-un-jeune-meure-seul-dans-une-tente?id=9394982  Depuis qu'on a découvert les Brassen's Not Dead, les enfants n'ont jamais autant réclamé (et chanté) Brassens  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3CnGZqfkk  Et si Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook étaient des partis politiques déguisés en entreprises ?  https://medium.com/@laurentcalixte/google-amazon-facebook-sont-ils-des-partis-politiques-1fabf9aa395c#.50ot3xmxo  par @ laurentcalixte  "Getting used to R, RStudio, and R Markdown"  https://ismayc.github.io/rbasics-book/  ht @ DataBzh  "A modern dive into data with R"  https://ismayc.github.io/moderndiver-book/  ht @ DataBzh  "La Sécurité sociale veut réduire les arrêts maladie pour mal de dos"  http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/0211244701816-la-securite-sociale-veut-reduire-les-arrets-maladie-pour-mal-de-dos-2023939.php  "Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age"  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-exposed-desire-disobedience-digital-age-bernard-harcourt-harvard-university-press  see also "Why Do We Expose Ourselves?"  https://theintercept.com/2016/01/23/surveillance-bernard-harcourt-why-do-we-expose-ourselves/  "Why millennials are having less sex than Generation Xers"  http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/health/millennials-less-sex-than-gen-x/index.html  see  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z  "Path of A.I. in Super Mario Kart"  https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/50wejw/path_of_ai_in_super_mario_kart_mario_circuit_1_oc/  see  https://github.com/guiguilegui/SuperMarioKart/tree "Incidence Rates, By Age, Great Britain, 1979-2013"  http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/incidence/age#collapseFour  Kevin Bryan @ Afinetheorem's  blog  https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com  is one of the most amazing econ blog ever "As time passes, knowledge increases. Why things we hold to be true might not be after all"  https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/04/moby-dick-and-gravity-understanding-the-truth?CMP=twt_gu  "We Are Reading Less Literature"  https://psmag.com/we-are-reading-less-literature-17066cfaeb2d#.jz7e9j4te  "Reinhard Selten and the making of modern game theory"  https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/reinhard-selten-and-the-making-of-modern-game-theory/  ht @ tylercowen  via @ went1955 "So Very Dutch" "Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html  "La laïcité répressive: Anthropologie et géopolitique de l’homo laïcus"  https://www.cairn.info/revue-multitudes-2015-2-page-104.htm  vécu  http://molgh.tumblr.com/  via @ MattAndersonBBC "Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know" "Teaching economics as if the last 3 decades had happened"  http://www.core-econ.org/  [free ebook] ht @ adelaigue  see  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35686623  "Part de la population adulte obèse, selon le revenu mensuel net du foyer"  http://inegalites.fr/spip.php?page=article&#38;id_article=1761 L'économie à la plage (par Jean-Yves Ferri) Hurricane Hermine, ht @ EricHolthaus   https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/771818837612204033/video/1  "ranger sa bibliothèque c’est sans doute nécessaire pour l’efficacité professionnelle (et pour la paix de ménages…)"  https://bouillaud.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/je-range-ma-bibliotheque/ "... mais pas très bon pour la perception de sa place dans le monde actuel" "Le code est la (seule) loi ?"  http://jeanzin.fr/2016/07/21/le-code-est-la-loi  voir aussi  https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/rejecting-today-s-hard-fork-the-ethereum-classic-project-continues-on-the-original-chain-here-s-why-1469038808  "économie collaborative et économie coopérative ne sont pas synonymes"  http://www.la-croix.com/Solidarite/Dans-l-economie/Affaire-Uber-economie-collaborative-et-economie-cooperative-ne-sont-pas-synonymes-2015-07-20-1336177  waouh  http://ml-games.tomasz-rewak.com/  "ML games" "Les aides directes bénéficient le plus aux agriculteurs les plus pollueur"  https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/020916/plus-les-agriculteurs-polluent-plus-ils-touchent-d-aides-de-l-europe  #paywall (si quelqu'un a l'étude...) "Where's the party at? Just follow the red tags"  http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2016/09/wheres-the-party-at-just-follow-the-red-tags  "How Data Will Destroy Human Freedom"  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/24/homo-deus-by-yuval-noah-harari-review  see also  https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/769305760786423809  "SportVu Analysis"  http://projects.rajivshah.com/blog/2016/04/02/sportvu_analysis/  see also  https://github.com/rajshah4/NBA_SportVu "This economic theory was born in the blogosphere and could save markets from collapse"  http://qz.com/73965/economics-could-the-next-big-idea-come-from-the-blogosphere/  by @ mileskimball  L’hymne avant le match, un rituel très américain  http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/etats-unis-lhymne-avant-le-match-un-rituel-tres-americain  ht @ cdb_77  "Espérance de vie scolaire"  http://visionscarto.net/esperance-de-vie-scolaire  billet génial de @ rekacewicz  "people ignore security alerts up to 87% of the time"  https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/19/why-people-ignore-security-alerts-up-to-87-of-the-time  "Is urban cycling worth the risk?"  https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/  ht @ rekacewicz  "Time Series Analysis in a Nutshell"  http://www.maths.bath.ac.uk/~ak257/talks/Behme.pdf  "The classical origin of modern mathematics"  http://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0088-y?site=epjdatascience.springeropen.com  ht @ arnaud_thurudev  via  http://www.slate.fr/story/122935/mathematiques-histoire-24-familles  "Adoption of genetically engineered crops in the U.S, over 20 years"  http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption.aspx  Syrie, Mars 2013 et Août 2016,  http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/enquete-etat-islamique-comment-tout-commence  (article fascinant sur la création de l'Etat Islamique) We now have a better understanding about why scientists keep sending warnings about climate change.  https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/771487340770496514  "A data scientist looks at the Belgian Municipal Elections" (in 2013)  http://allthingsdatascience.blogspot.be/2013/02/a-data-scientist-looks-at-belgian.html  by @ IstvanHajnal  "Obama Pays Mexico Five Billion Dollars to Keep Donald Trump"  http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obama-pays-mexico-five-billion-dollars-to-keep-donald-trump?mbid=social_twitter  On ballot position and effects on voting  http://daily.jstor.org/ballot-position/  "In many cases, the first-listed candidate is more likely to be voted for" The UBS Trading Floor In 2008 And 2016  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-01/transformation-wall-street-just-two-photos-ubs-trading-floor-2008-and-2016  "Intergenerational associations in numerical approximation and mathematical abilities"  http://sci-hub.bz/10.1111/desc.12436  "Professor turns to novel writing as his research ‘had no impact’"  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/professor-turns-novel-writing-his-research-had-no-impact  I wonder if I should not, also, think of a plan B "Once a Bucknell Professor, Now the Commander of an Ethiopian Rebel Army"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/once-a-bucknell-professor-now-the-commander-of-an-ethiopian-rebel-army.html  ht @ tylercowen  "Quelle stratégie pour la physique ?"  http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2016/08/29/quelle-strategie-pour-la-physique_4989446_1650684.html  Parents' math skills 'rub off' on their children  http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-09/uop-pms090116.php  intergenerational transmission of an nonverbal competence in maths "Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?"  http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/is-artificial-intelligence-permanently-inscrutable  "Comment l’Occident exporte ses troubles mentaux"  http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2010/03/04/comment-l-occident-exporte-ses-troubles-mentaux  "Could I ever abandon my disabled son?"  http://narrative.ly/could-i-ever-abandon-my-disabled-son/  Lost cities  https://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/lost-cities  e.g. Babylon  https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/08/lost-cities-1-babylon-iraq-war-history-mankind-greatest-heritage-site 1. petites séries de 4 'sondages', pour une expérience. On est au second tour de l'élection présidentielle, vous votez pour qui ? heureusement, @ joelgombin  a fait des jolies fonctions pour redispatcher les individus quand les zones d'agrégation diffèrent (école/revenu) si l'étude est effectivement basée sur des données individuelles, ça serait bien qu'elles soient accessibles https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/771231665167282176  on my way to  http://icabe.gr/index.php?option=com_frontpage&#38;Itemid=1  , should arrive soon in Paris "Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: a review of the literature"  https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1608/1608.08112.pdf  reste à comprenne comment @ PikettyLeMonde  a eu ses cartes, pour moi les IRIS et la carte scolaire ne coïncident pas  https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/771231665167282176  "Le gouvernement souhaite-t-il vraiment la mixité sociale ?"  http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/08/31/le-gouvernement-souhaite-t-il-vraiment-la-mixite-sociale/  Willingness to pay for shorter commute time (in NYC)  http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/new-yorkers-will-pay-56-a-month-to-trim-a-minute-off-their-commute/  guess what  http://howmuch.net/articles/olympic-costs  "Olympic Games Always Go Over Budget" "A Student’s Guide to the Meanings of “Equity”"  https://osf.io/9vrjx/  via  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/21/a-students-guide-to-the-meanings-of-equity/?utm_term=.c9c726541933  best dataviz' ever  http://flowingdata.com/projects/2016/alcohol-world/  "What Alcohol People Around the World Drink" via @ tomstafford  : "university students evaluate their teachers more positively when they learn less"  http://buff.ly/2bWB1M2  "RSA vs Smic : non, on ne gagne pas autant sans travailler"  http://www.liberation.fr/desintox/2016/08/31/rsa-vs-smic-non-on-ne-gagne-pas-autant-sans-travailler-comme-le-pretend-valeurs-actuelles_1475410  (voir aussi  http://revenudebase.info/2013/08/29/mensonges-et-verites-aide-sociale-rsa/  ) "Nous sommes tous des placés sous surveillance électronique en puissance"  http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/08/31/nous-sommes-tous-des-places-sous-surveillance-electronique-en-puissance_1475775  "Trajets pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement"  http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/01/03/games-that-help-us-wander  Paul-Henry Chombart, 1957 "Does killing leaders of violent organizations make any difference ?"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/world/middleeast/syria-killing-terrorist-leaders.html  ht @ liotier  "Quelle place pour l’islam et les musulmans dans l’histoire de France ?"  http://books.openedition.org/bibpompidou/1320  par @ EmmanuelLauren2  et @ b_stora  Structure des dépenses de consommation des ménages, sur 50 ans,  http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/series-longues.asp?indicateur=structure-conso-menages  "Fifty years ago, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI pushed for the right to remain silent"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/10/cops-hated-miranda-warnings-but-the-fbi-helped-create-them/  "Jailing Old Folks Makes No Sense"  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/opinion/jailing-old-folks-makes-no-sense.html  "Big Data Is Causing a ‘Silent Financial Crisis'"  http://time.com/4471451/cathy-oneil-math-destruction/?xid=tcoshare  about @ mathbabedotorg's  book maths and parenting  http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/parenting-regions  JP Chevènement et un certain monde musulman  http://filiu.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/08/30/jean-pierre-chevenement-connait-en-effet-un-certain-monde-musulman/  (celui d’Abdelaziz Bouteflika, de Saddam Hussein et de Bachar Al-Assad) "Open data and traffic fatalities"  https://www.mapbox.com/blog/fars-2015/ "Social security system fast becoming unfit for purpose"  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/31/uk-social-security-system-unfit-purpose-benefits-fabian-society-study  (see also  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/24/poor-uk-private-rent-homelessness-risk-housing-benefit-shortfall-2020  ) by @ patrickjbutler  political economy  http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teach-a-man-to-fish  programming (via  http://xkcd.com/1671/  ) "Le bidonville est-il l’avenir de la ville ?"  https://reporterre.net/Le-bidonville-est-il-l-avenir-de-la-ville  ht @ Monolecte  "The economics and politics of manufacturing fetishism"  http://www.johnkay.com/2016/08/29/the-economics-and-politics-of-manufacturing-fetishism/  "How Multiple Imputation Makes a Difference"  http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ranjitlall/files/pa_website_version_1.pdf  ht @ cblatts  "Adam Smith on Teaching and Incentives"  http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2016/08/adam-smith-on-teaching-and-incentives.html  "La Caspienne est-elle une mer ou un lac ?"  http://visionscarto.net/caspienne-mer-ou-lac  par @ rekacewicz  "Humans sparked warming nearly 200 years ago"  http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&#38;id=07c591e03f&#38;e=08052803c8  "Why We Need Quantitative Sports History"  http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-need-quantitative-sports-history  "The sneaky math that made the lottery more alluring — and harder to win"  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/30/the-sneaky-math-that-made-the-lottery-more-alluring-and-harder-to-win/  "Les noms de domaine sur Internet, le casse-tête des politiques pour 2017"  http://www.telerama.fr/medias/les-noms-de-domaine-sur-internet-le-casse-tete-des-politiques-pour-2017,146594.php  e.g.  http://toutpourlafrance.net  "The more experts on the board, the greater the likelihood of going out of business"  https://hbr.org/2016/08/when-having-too-many-experts-on-the-board-backfires  "The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit"  http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/  ht @ NinjaEconomics  «On n'est plus chez nous !»  https://blogs.mediapart.fr/j-grau/blog/290816/nest-plus-chez-nous  du burikini au Entfremdung Russian hackers targeted some US election system  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-is-investigating-foreign-hacks-of-state-election-systems/2016/08/29/6e758ff4-6e00-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html  ht @ Noahpinion  "rather than only asking how we can use data to better target customers, how big data creates value for customers"  https://hbr.org/2016/08/use-big-data-to-create-value-for-customers-not-just-target-them  Le stress peut doper la longévité  http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2016/08/29/doper-la-longevite-par-un-stress-ephemere_4989411_1650684.html  (paywall, cf  https://seenthis.net/messages/519815  ) RT @ bhgreeley  : A powerful argument for what sociology can explain that economics can't  http://ow.ly/geTx303Glbt  @ tylercowen   NA  La prostitution infantile, en France, en 1890  http://sexes.blogs.liberation.fr/2016/08/28/la-prostitution-enfantine-du-xixe-siecle/  "Casque d'or prostituée à 14 ans pour 10 sous la passe" ht @ monolecte  how some politicians try to reduce economic inequalities  https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/770365878533750788/video/1  allez, petit cours de stats,  http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2016/08/29/le-taux-de-chomage-peut-il-s-expliquer-par-la-qualite-de-l-education_4989352_4355770.html  "Are Index Funds Eating the World?"  http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/08/26/are-index-funds-eating-the-world/  "Low interest rates and the prospect of fees on bank deposits are helping drive a boom in home-safe sales"  http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-savers-lose-faith-in-banks-stash-cash-at-home-1472485225  Panama Papers show tax evasion by the rich and powerful to be one of the great scandals of our age  http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/hidden-costs/  "Despite higher economic growth, malnutrition levels are almost twice as high in South Asia vs. Sub-Saharan Africa"  http://scroll.in/article/814886/rural-india-is-eating-less-than-it-did-40-years-ago  "Terrorisme insurrection ou résistance: cartographier et nommer l’internationale djihadiste"  http://visionscarto.net/djihadisme-international  "Les enfants ne savent pas se servir d’un ordinateur et vous devriez vous en inquiéter."  https://nicolaslegland.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/les-enfants-ne-savent-pas-se-servir-dun-ordinateur  "Un brillant scientifique de Rio de Janeiro assigné à résidence en France"  https://lundi.am/Adlene-hicheur-ou-la-vengeance-sans-fin-de-l-antiterrorisme  voir aussi  http://owni.fr/2012/07/02/adlene-hicheur-jetais-le-pigeon-providentiel/  "La « discrimination génétique » au cœur d’une guerre de lobbyistes"  http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/478749/la-discrimination-genetique-au-coeur-d-une-guerre-de-lobbyistes  (assureurs vs. associations de malades)