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Some writings worth reading,"Did Super Typhoon Haiyan Just Shatter The Global Hurricane Intensity Record?" http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/11 …"How Twitter Hijacked My Mind" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/ … by @kathrynschulz"Why bioinformaticians hate the “traditional journal article”" http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/why/ … (and they're not alone...)MT @davidmwessel "Elite Grads in Business Flock to Tech" http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/ … see"The Arrogance of the Financial Times" http://huffingtonpost.com/roger-martin/financial-times-mba-ranking … via @petergklein"How high-frequency trading took the soul out of my career" http://chicagotribune.com/business/ct… "A trader laments the influence of 'the robots'""a 'pseudoscience' of economics (…) using the trappings of science, like dense mathematics, but only for show" http://theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/…"One problem with economics is that it is necessarily focused on policy, rather than discovery of fundamentals. Nobody really cares much about economic data except as a guide to policy: economic phenomena do not have the same intrinsic fascination for us as the internal resonances of the atom or the functioning of the vesicles and other organelles of aliving cell. We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics, more practical than spiritual. There is no Nobel prize for engineering, though there should be. True, the chemistry prize this year looks a bit like an engineering prize, because it was given to three researchers – Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel – "for the development of multiscale models of complex chemical systems" that underlie the computer programs that make nuclear magnetic resonance hardware work. But the Nobel Foundation is forced to look at much more such practical, applied material when it considers the economics prize. The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention. The Nobel prize is designed to reward those who do not play tricks for attention, and who, in their sincere pursuit of the truth, might otherwise be slighted. Why is it called a prize in "economic sciences", rather than just "economics"? The other prizes are not awarded in the "chemical sciences" or the "physical sciences."" [to be continued...]"Getting a D in Math -- and the Aftermath" http://huffingtonpost.com/jordan-lloyd-bookey/getting… by Jordan Lloyd Bookey via @jjgibaja[video] "There are no others, There is only us" http://vimeo.com/6434925  (via http://intercession.over-blog.org/ …)"The safest time to drive" http://theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/oct/27/… via http://flowingdata.com/2013/11/0… (see also http://flowingdata.com/2012/01/11…)"A Theory of Good Intentions" https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db… by Paul Niehaus via @tylercowen"Analyzing Baseball Data with R" http://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/  the blog associated to the (new) book http://amazon.ca/Analyzing-Baseball-Data-Max-Marchi/dp/…"The subway is gross" http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/subway-bacteria-2013-11/… via @nymag"Part 1: Natural Disaster Losses in the US in 2012" http://rationshop.blogspot.ca/2013/11/towards …"The Hidden Technology That Makes Twitter Huge" http://businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-07/the …"The Bayes wars in Science" http://blog.richmond.edu/physicsbunn/2013/06/16/…"If all the ice melted" http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/ …? e.g. in Europe"What Tweets With Ridiculous Numbers of Retweets Say About Twitter" http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/… by @alexismadrigal"Not many statisticians become famous. But, then, not many do sword swallowing live on stage…" http://telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/… via @mattstat"Pictures of adverse selection in an insurance market, with and without death spirals" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2013/1…"There actually is a huge difference between government and corporate surveillance" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/04/yes… via @FrenchRedFrog @ggreenwald"Gender Inequality Index" http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/10/… see"Why doesn’t competition drive out inefficient health care technology?" http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/why-doesnt-competition-drive-out-inefficient-health-care-technology/ … via @MarkThoma"The Nazi Anatomists" http://slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/11/nazi_anatomy … "corpses of Hitler's victims are still haunting modern science—and American abortion politics""The Myth of Americans' Poor Life Expectancy" http://forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/11/23// … via @tylercowen"You Can't Learn About Morality from Brain Scans" http://newrepublic.com/article/115279/ … "The problem with moral psychology""Ignorance" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/ … "Economics, it is said, is the study of scarcity...."[multilingualism] "Do different languages confer different personalities?" http://economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/11/multilingualism…interesting! http://web.math.princeton.edu/math_alive… "a course is designed for those who haven't had college mathematics" via @stevenstrogatz"Statistics Done Wrong" http://refsmmat.com/statistics/  "The woefully complete guide" by Alex Reinhart"High frequency trading and price discovery" http://ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/… via http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/82f5d7f…"On the sophisticated economics behind Somali piracy" http://economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2…"Herding cats? Management and university performance" http://voxeu.org/article/management…"Remember, Remember"avec toujours de la lecture, en français,"Coût des publications : propositions concrètes" http://djalil.chafai.net/docs/cout …"Quelle est la situation des doctorants et du diplôme du doctorat en France ?" http://assemblee-nationale.fr/14/budget/… (repéré par @SamuelHayat )"Comment se regroupent les populations dans l’espace urbain ?" http://inegalites.fr/spip.php?article1867 … via @Monolecte"Obésité : un poids pour le monde" http://courrierinternational.com/article/2013/11/05/ …[science] http://legorafi.fr/2013/11/07/le-cerveau… "Le cerveau d’une adolescente officiellement plus proche de la langouste que de l’être humain""toi aussi tu as repéré une étude à la con?" http://etudesalacon.tumblr.com/ ""Puantes", "moches", "obèses" : ce que sont les femmes selon la publicité" http://leplus.nouvelobs.com/contribution/963683 …Did I miss something?