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Some writings worth reading, discovered here and there,"Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet" https://firstlook.org/theintercept/…"Palestinian &#38; Israeli deaths" https://i.imgur.com/7cdU0R6  see"Total of 8,856 rockets, 4,845 Palestinian casualties and 174 Israeli casualties" http://haaretz.co.il/news/politics/1.2373486 … see"It's Economics, Stupid!" http://jewishpolicycenter.org/971/… via http://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/…"Is It Better to Rent or Buy?" http://nytimes.com/2014/… with a nice calculator http://nytimes.com/interactive/…"8 top challenges big data brings to statisticians" http://fiercebigdata.com/story/8-top … by @Ron_Wasserstein ht @lisachwinter"Where Goalkeepers Spent Their Time During The Matches" http://nytimes.com/interactive/…"Measuring Ramadan" http://nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion… ht @Anne__Lavigne"Just Like Facebook, Twitter’s New Impression Stats Suggest Few Followers See What’s Tweeted" http://marketingland.com/facebook…"The Fourier transform lets you have your cake and understand it" http://theguardian.com/science/… by @alokjha"The meteoric rise of boys' names ending in 'n'" (in the U.S.) http://prooffreader.com/2014/…"White, Bigoted and Young" http://nytimes.com/interactive/… (see also http://nytimes.com/2014… "Data of Hate")how likely a letter is to fall toward the beginning, middle or end of a word http://prooffreader.com/2014/07/comparison…"Machine Learning and Cognitive Systems" http://innovationinsights.wired.com/insights/…"The correlation between reading and mathematics ability at age twelve has a substantial genetic component" http://nature.com/ncomms/2014/…MT @twoARguys: datasci give a hell of a Venn diagram, hybrid skillsets like that won’t come easy"P@$$1234: the end of strong password‑only security" http://deloitte.com/content/… (via http://clubic.com/internet/article…)"Germany’s 12th Man at the World Cup: Big Data" http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/…"How Fan Loyalty Changed During the World Cup" http://nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/12/upshot/ …"Political Affiliation by Age in the United States" http://people-press.org/2014/06/26/… (but should be valid anywhere else)"A Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics" http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv… cc @BrianCAlbrecht"The Top Programming Languages" in 2014 http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive… and the top 10 is"Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away" http://theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/…"Two of every five U.S. households have only wireless phones" http://pewresearch.org/fact-tank/… see"Money and Entropy: Nobody knows what money is" https://medium.com/design-matters-4/… by @daveg"The stock market draws human stupidity the way a black hole sucks in starlight" http://wired.com/2014/07/… from Dumb People to Dumb Machines"Average Stock Market Returns Aren’t Average" http://marginalrevolution.com/… by @ATabarrok"Ridiculous Study of the Day Says Smelling Farts Might Prevent Cancer" http://time.com/2976464/scientists… (I'd love to look at the grant proposal)et un peu de lecture en français,"Les profs de mathématiques en voie de disparition ?" http://campus.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2014/07/15/ … ht @Fabrice_BMEn France, "L'apprentissage du « code informatique » sera proposé à l'école primaire dès septembre" http://lemonde.fr/societe/… voir aussi "Bien entendu, on peut sauter sur sa chaise comme un cabri en disant le code ! le code ! le code !…" http://culture-numerique.fr/634 "Tour de France 2014 : pourquoi le vainqueur gagne 100 fois plus que le 10e" http://leplus.nouvelobs.com/contribution/…Légion d'Honneur http://herodote.net/Ordres … "C'est avec des hochets qu'on mène les hommes !""L’art et la manière de contrôler les foules" http://blog.mondediplo.net/2014-…"L'œuvre d’Akira Toriyama reste une saga culte pour toute une génération et réussit à séduire les plus jeunes." http://lemonde.fr/pixels/article/…Did I miss something?