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Some interesting writings, worth reading, here and there"The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom" http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-case-for-banning-laptops-in-the-classroom ht @fdastous"CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World" http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/09/ceos-get-paid-too-much-according-to-pretty-much-everyone-in-the-world/ …Perfectly bad http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26243-world-on-track-for-worstcase-warming-scenario.html#.VCG3C60idO0 … "today's emissions are near-perfectly in line with the worst-case scenario""HFT in my backyard – Part I" http://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-backyard-part-i/ …"Chart: Big Gains for the 1 Percent of the 1 Percent" http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/09/income-inequality-one-percent-gains … ht @pierreageron pic.twitter.com/nuE06WzBJl"The Scottish No vote is the start not the end of the argument" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/93d842b6-426d-11e4-9818-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3EGBx8XT9 … by @JohnKayFT"Roles of Moms and Dads: 1965 vs. 2011" https://plot.ly/~PewResearch/13/the-evolution-of-parenthood-mothers-and-fathers-1965-vs-2011-average-number-of-h/ …Fertility Rates, in Europe (via http://akarlin.com/2010/06/top-5-demography-myths/ …)see also Total fertility rate (births per woman) in Europe (stats https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html …) via http://democracyreform.blogspot.fr/2010_05_01_archive.html …"How well-connected is the surface of the global ocean ?" http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/chaos/24/3/10.1063/1.4892530 …New parents, paid (and protected) leave, in week http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/06/23/global-view-how-u-s-policies-to-help-working-families-rank-in-the-world "Average Number of Children per Woman in China, Europe, USA and India: 1950-2100" http://www.china-profile.com/data/fig_WPP2010_TFR_1.htm …"Does it take longer to read the book or to watch the movie?" http://ejoh.se/is-it-faster-to-read-the-book-or-to-watch-the-movie/ …"Death rates are declining worldwide" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/09/daily-chart-19 …"How Search Works" http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/ … "From algorithms to answers""A Border Crosses" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/moving-mexican-border?utm_content=buffer2e51c&#38;utm_medium=social&#38;utm_source=twitter.com&#38;utm_campaign=buffer … ht @raulpachecovia @Amazing_Maps "Google Maps satisfying everyone" (ht @visionscarto)"Machine Unlearning: The Value of Imperfect Models" https://www.mapr.com/blog/machine-unlearning-value-imperfect-models#.VCHIyK0idO0 … by @KirkDBorneDistribution of Indo-European languages within their homelands of Europe and Asia (ht http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2h7o82/the_approximate_presentday_distribution_of/ …)"Is Switzerland really the country of bankers?" http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/is-switzerland-really-the-country-of-bankers-/40473658 …First Minister of Scotland solves your relationship problems (ht http://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/2dflbx/ask_alex/ …)"Why Liberal Americans Are Turning Against GMO Labeling" http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/08/25/why-liberal-americans-are-turning-against-gmo-labeling/ …on clusters http://joelcadwell.blogspot.fr/2014/09/what-is-cluster-analysis-projective-test.html …"Collaboration: Strength in diversity" http://www.nature.com/news/collaboration-strength-in-diversity-1.15912?utm_content=bufferdd888&#38;utm_medium=social&#38;utm_source=twitter.com&#38;utm_campaign=buffer … there might be "a link between a team's ethnic mix and highly cited papers""The American Middle Class Hasn’t Gotten A Raise In 15 Years" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-american-middle-class-hasnt-gotten-a-raise-in-15-years/ … by @bencasselman"You Can't Just Hack Your Way to Social Change" http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/03/you-cant-just-hack-your-way-to/ … via @MarcAbrahams's http://www.improbable.com/2014/09/22/big-data-is-but-not-unquestioningly-the-answer-he-says/ …"Weak Versus Strong Net Neutrality" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2439360 …"Data From a Century of Cinema Reveals How Movies Have Evolved" http://www.wired.com/2014/09/cinema-is-evolving/ … ht @flowingdata"God created war so that Americans would learn geography"(attributed to Mark Twain http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Mark_Twain …)"Average life of a hedge fund is less than 5 years" (ht @rszbt) http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21618899-hiring-hedge-funds-was-never-going-make-pension-deficits-disappear-cant-pay?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/can_t_pay_won_t_pay … "... never going to make pension deficits disappear""Historical Control of North America (1750-2008)" (ht http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2h42l0/historical_control_of_north_america/ …)"How Information Theory Could Hold the Key to Quantifying Nature" http://www.wired.com/2014/09/information-theory-hold-key-quantifying-nature/ …"Universities to revamp economics courses" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c0fe9722-4245-11e4-a9f4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3E3pFV2iQ …"How would you fix Social Security?" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/get-there/social-security-fix/ … ht @janzilinsky"What’s the point of all that data, anyway? It’s to make decisions" http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523646/the-power-to-decide/ … ht @KirkDBorne"Science’s Sexual Assault Problem" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/science-has-a-sexual-assault-problem.html?_r=3 …"The grant cycle" ht @AcademicsSay by @phdcomics http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1431 … …"Is our education system gearing up for the Big Data boom" http://www.financialexpress.com/news/is-our-education-system-gearing-up-for-the-big-data-boom/1291393/0 … ht @KirkDBorne"Why Do We Need Data Science when We’ve Had Statistics for Centuries?" http://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2014/04/why-do-we-need-data-science-when-weve-had-statistics-for-centuries.html … (via http://www.vizworld.com/2014/09/irving-wladawsky-berger-why-do-we-need-data-science-when-weve-had-statistics-for-centuries/#sthash.o0zoozsi.pfyCgr5Z.dpbs …)things that looks correlated are causally related in real life, ht @DiegoKuonen @albertocairo http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3129 "Philosophy of Statistics" http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/statistics/ … ht @jakeporway and @tdhopper"Still No Flying Cars?" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/arts/peter-thiel-and-david-graeber-debate-technologys-future.html?_r=0 …"share of Americans ages 18 and older who are married" http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/18/for-first-time-census-data-on-married-couples-includes-same-sex-spouses/ … … (50.3% in 2013)"Forget minimum wage, some adjunct professors say they're making 50 cents an hour." http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/professors_on_food_stamps_the_shocking_true_story_of_academia_in_2014/ …"what if it's a big hoax…" (ht @azertyworld and @zef999)et un peu de lecture en français,via @DiegoKuonen "'Big data', la science des données" sur @FrCulturePlus http://plus.franceculture.fr/big-data-la-science-des-donnees …"Le Machine Learning double les performances de l’emailing de l’activité billettique" http://www.larevuedudigital.com/2014/09/retoursdexperience/big-data-a-la-billettique-de-la-fnac-lemailing-deux-fois-plus-performant/ …école primaire, France, Allemagne, Finlande et Espagne http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/DataMatch-Les-ecoliers-francais-sont-ils-sous-pression-596990 … (effets d'échelle, mais quand même)"Lien social : grande solitude" http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/lien-social--grande-solitude_fr_art_1311_69096.html … "29% dans les villes de plus de 100 000 habitants ne connaissent pas leurs voisins""L’école de la détestation" http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2014/09/22/l-ecole-de-la-detestation_4492224_1650684.html … par @coulmont (paywall, dommage)"Paris, ville monde" http://coulmont.com/blog/2014/09/24/paris-ville-monde/ … par l'incroyable @coulmont fabuleux (comme toujours) !"Monsieur Cazeneuve, votre loi antiterroriste est antidémocratique" http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/2014/09/18/monsieur-cazeneuve-votre-loi-antiterroriste-est-antidemocratique_1103375 … par @julienbayou et @legumanWV"Retour vers le futur en Ecosse" http://blogs.afp.com/makingof/?post/retour-vers-le-futur-en-ecosse#.VB9HKK0idO0 …"Est-il temps de tourner définitivement le dos à l’édition traditionnelle ?" http://blog.tcrouzet.com/2014/09/23/pourquoi-continuer-avec-un-editeur/ … (réflexion intéressante)"Économie circulaire : les nouveaux 'business models'" https://www.futuribles.com/base/article/economie-circulaire-les-nouveaux-business-models/ …MT @FrenchBigData: "Arte propose 15 minutes d'explications introductives sur les Big Data" https://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/053987-003/future?autoplay=1 …"Les impôts, le prix de la démocratie ?" http://dechiffrage.arte.tv/3-impots/emission … (encore des choses passionnantes du côté d'@ARTEfr)RT @diogene2607 "Le dieu finance est colère ...""Quand l’homme favorise les épidémies" https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/quand-lhomme-favorise-les-epidemies …"Les réseaux sociaux, et moi, et moi, et moi..." https://www.franceculture.fr/emission-ce-qui-nous-arrive-demain-les-reseaux-sociaux-et-moi-et-moi-et-moi-2014-09-22 …"Rapport 2014 de l’AMF sur le gouvernement d’entreprise et la rémunération des dirigeants" http://www.amf-france.org/technique/multimedia?docId=workspace://SpacesStore/31d2e0a2-089c-4170-824f-a41fc9b30bc7_fr_1.2_rendition …"Pourquoi corruption et démocratie font-elles si bon ménage ?" http://www.repid.com/Une-democratie-corruptible.html …Did I miss something interesting?