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Some posts and articles worth reading"The Barber, Russell's paradox, catch-22, God, contradiction and more" http://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=GOLTBR&#38;u=http%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FGOLTBR.docx …"Proof that you should get a life" http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/12/working-hours … "when people worked more than about 50 hours, output rose at a decreasing rate""Why Poor People Stay Poor" http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/12/linda_tirado_on_the_realities_of_living_in_bootstrap_america_daily_annoyances.html … "Saving money costs money. Period." by @KillerMartinis ht @Noahpinion"Trivial graphs and formulas increase ad persuasiveness and belief in product efficacy" http://pus.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/23/0963662514549688.abstract … via @fredericschutz"Rise and Fall of Debate in Economics" http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/12/the-rise-and-fall-of-debate-in-economics … "economists have stopped discussing each other’s work""The dozy watchdogs" http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21635978-some-13-years-after-enron-auditors-still-cant-stop-managers-cooking-books-time-some?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_dozy_watchdogs … "Some 13 years after Enron, auditors still can’t stop managers cooking the books" ht @GjpvernantLast Words of Unarmed Black Men http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2014/08/journalist_s_illustrations_document_the_last_words_of_unarmed_black_men.html … by @shebe86today is 12-13-14, MT @MarketWatch "The next sequential date like today will be in 89 years" http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-121314-could-be-a-day-to-remember-2014-12-12?link=sfmw …"That's jargon-ish. Even some people in the sciences don't have an intuitive understanding of what that means." http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/12/how-scientists-are-learning-to-write/383685/ …"Wealth inequality has widened along racial, ethnic lines since end of Great Recession" http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/ …"The Power of Visualization’s “Aha!” Moments" https://hbr.org/2013/03/power-of-visualizations-aha-moment/ … ht @albertocairo"Statistics Is More Than a Numbers Game – It Underpins All Sciences" http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/788791-statistics-is-more-than-a-numbers-game-it-underpins-all-sciences/ … ht @ThisisStats"The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work, and What They Do Instead" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/upshot/the-rise-of-men-who-dont-work-and-what-they-do-instead.html …"Symmetric Application of Dynamic Scoring" http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/12/symmetric-application-of-dynamic-scoring … ht @economistsview"Wouldn’t it be fun to build your own Google?" http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/12/wouldnt-it-be-fun-to-build-your-own-google.html … by @martinkl"The Fallacy of Placing Confidence in Confidence Intervals" http://andrewgelman.com/2014/12/11/fallacy-placing-confidence-confidence-intervals/ …via @Noahpinion "Minority Report is real, folks" http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/12/12/police-data-mining-looks-through-social-media-assigns-you-a-threat-level/ …"Men Take More 'Idiotic Risks', Study Finds" http://www.livescience.com/49101-darwin-awards-are-men-idiots.html … (just in case you did not notice)French Universities http://universiteenruines.tumblr.com/ "Christmas Music Season Is Totally Data-Driven" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/christmas-music-season-data/ …[free ebook] "Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View" http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ADAfaEPoV/ADAfaEPoV.pdf … by Cosma Rohilla Shalizi"How Much Google News Traffic Do Publishers Get? " http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/google-news-traffic-for-news-sites/ … by @adamsherk"Don’t Homogenize Health Care" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/opinion/dont-homogenize-health-care.html?smid=tw-share&#38;_r=1 … ht @pash22"Making science a desirable career" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6215/1422.full …"Santa’s flight path" http://nats.aero/blog/2014/12/yuletide-24/ … "on buzy skies and complexity of the air traffic operation in the UK"via @laurenfosternyc "Scientific evidence that you probably don’t have free will" http://io9.com/5975778/scientific-evidence-that-you-probably-dont-have-free-will …"An exploration of the basis for patient complaints about the oldness of magazines in practice waiting rooms" http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7262 …"Most American presidents destined to fade from nation’s memory, study suggests " http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/27737.aspx …"The Torture Party: Why Republicans Defend the Most Sadistic Government Program in Recent History" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/torture-party-republicans.html?mid=twitter_dailyintelligencer … ht @Noahpinion"Twitter Improves Influenza Forecasting" http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/twitter-improves-influenza-forecasting/pdf/ …"Forecasting Infectious Disease Spread with Web Data" http://www.livescience.com/49019-web-data-helps-forecast-infectious-diseases.html…"This Is How Much Plastic Is Floating In Our Oceans" http://app.dumpark.com/seas-of-plastic-2/ …"Too many postdocs, not enough research jobs" http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.aspx?storyCode=2017415 …"On the Attribution of a Single Event to Climate Change" http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00399.1 …"Visualizing Optimization Algos" http://imgur.com/a/Hqolp  ht @ogriselvia @MartinVetterli Age distribution of nhmrc project grant CIs 1983 vs 2013 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/10/23/old-and-stale-aging-researchers-funding-trends-and-the-doughnut-effect/ … via @whereisdaz"Retirement funds for Illinois and California hold 75% risky investments. The Texas teachers’ plan: 81%" http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-g-biggs-public-pensions-need-gamblers-anonymous-1417563447 …"Would You Rather Get Your Water From Your City Government—or From a Corporation?" http://www.thenation.com/blog/192145/would-you-rather-get-your-water-your-city-government-or-corporation …"The prevalence puzzle : Autism counts" http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111102/pdf/479022a.pdf …the science of misheard lyrics, or mondegreens http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/science-misheard-lyrics-mondegreens … by @mkonnikova"The Power of a Press Release" http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/09/the-power-of-a-press-release/ … by @virginiahughesCredit Ratings via "On the debt limit, Congress is seriously unfunny" http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2014/12/10/on-the-debt-limit-congress-is-seriously-unfunny/ …"Special Issue on Scalable Computing for Big Data" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214579614000070 … via @ericdarmon[christmas] "The perfect whisky for Christmas" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkadvice/10500370/How-to-choose-the-perfect-whisky-for-Christmas.html … (ht @DiegoKuonen) I just leave it here. Just in case."Essay · A planet of suburbs" http://www.economist.com/suburbs?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/es/placesapart …"Maths and morals, economics and greed" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.fr/2014/12/maths-and-morals-economics-and-greed.html … by @TCJUKvia @conradhackett student loan debt ($1.1 trillion) exceeds total all Americans owe on credit cards ($0.7 trillion)"I Can’t Be Forgiven for Abu Ghraib" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/opinion/the-torture-report-reminds-us-of-what-america-was.html?_r=0 … "The Torture Report Reminds Us of What America Was""Searching for a Mate: The Rise of the Internet as a Social Intermediary” http://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_Thomas_Searching_for_mate_supplementary_tables.pdf …The Detained People That Were Subjected To C.I.A Enhanced Interrogation http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-torture-report-key-points.html?smid=tw-nytimes&#38;_r=0 …"An update on Dataverse" http://blog.oup.com/2014/12/gary-king-update-dataverse-journal-database/?utm_content=buffer9ef65&#38;utm_medium=social&#38;utm_source=twitter.com&#38;utm_campaign=buffer … by @kinggary"Watch the world react to release of CIA 'torture report'" http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201412091249-0024419 … (on Tweeter)Income inequality and economic growth http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/08/news/economy/income-inequality-oecd/ … http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30390232 … http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/09/revealed-wealth-gap-oecd-report … http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/9/inequality-hurtseconomicgrowthoecdfinds.html … (etc)"The Origin Of Cyber Attacks" http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2014/12/09/in-hack-franco-and-rogen-can-laugh-sony-not-so-much/ …"Cultural Fault Lines Determine How New Words Spread On Twitter, Say Computational Linguists" https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cultural-fault-lines-determine-how-new-words-spread-on-twitter-say-computational-linguists-43c44a259840 …"In Tennis, the Numbers Sometimes Don’t Add Up" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/sports/tennis/31score.html?_r=0 … and http://fxdiebold.blogspot.fr/2014/12/a-tennis-match-graphic.html …"Cultural Fault Lines Determine How New Words Spread On Twitter, Say Computational Linguists" https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cultural-fault-lines-determine-how-new-words-spread-on-twitter-say-computational-linguists-43c44a259840 …et un peu de lecture en françaisMathématicien, professeur d'université, statisticien http://www.lesechos.fr/politique-societe/societe/0203986061697-bucheron-journaliste-ou-militaire-quel-est-le-pire-metier-en-2014-1071023.php … "Les 10 meilleurs métiers de 2014" (aux E.U., arrêtons de rêver) ht @pareto35 et @S_langouetaléa thérapeutique http://anadavi.com/dotclear/index.php/post/2014/12/12/ALEA-THERAPEUTIQUE-ALERTE-PROCEDURE-DELAI-AU-31-DECEMBRE-2014 … (supprime le droit d’être indemnisé en cas de complication grave d’un acte « non thérapeuthique »)"Des tribunaux pour détrousser les Etats" http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/06/BREVILLE/50487 …au Québec, "La vulgarisation scientifique passe à la trappe" http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/science-et-technologie/426675/soutien-aux-organismes-la-vulgarisation-scientifique-passe-a-la-trappe … ht @IanikMarcil"Aux sources du zéro" http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/video/2014/12/06/aux-sources-du-zero_4536021_1650684.htmldataviz intéressante http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/special/2014/12/magnotta/ … via @J_P_Boucher"Crises financières et régulation bancaire : une histoire" http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Crises-financieres-et-regulation.html …Enseignant-Chercheur, http://www.lemonde.fr/les-indegivrables/ … ht @PUautomne"Recherche: le pont d'or fait aux nanotechnologies met Fioraso sur la sellette" …https://histoiresduniversites.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/article-mediapart-fioraso-et-les-nano.pdf …"Les serviteurs de Wall Street" http://blogues.lapresse.ca/hetu/2014/12/12/les-serviteurs-de-wall-street/ …par @HuetSylvestre "Universités, les faux calculs de François Hollande" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2014/12/hollande-et-luniversit%C3%A9-faux-calculs.html …travailler le dimanche, oui, mais pas au point d'y sacrifier son week end (le grand écart selon le Medef) ht @Ianonim"Fablabs et éducation, une équation à plusieurs inconnues" http://www.makery.info/2014/12/09/fablabs-et-education-une-equation-a-plusieurs-inconnues/ …"Mais pourquoi la SNCF planque-t-elle les horaires des TGV ?" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/12/11/pourquoi-sncf-planque-t-les-horaires-tgv-256480 …"Quand la finance se branche sur la nature" http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/03/KEUCHEYAN/50199 …«Ah oui, les retraites ne seront plus assurées…» http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/eurojournaliste/article/031214/ah-oui-les-retraites-ne-seront-plus-assurees …"la causalité entre la mortalité et le tabac, [l]'a toujours laissée un petit peu sceptique" http://www.allodocteurs.fr/actualite-sante-mais-qu-avait-donc-fume-la-deputee--15066.asp?1=1 … via @ChercheursdActu ou comment mépriser plusieurs années de recherche sur le sujet, depuis http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~dscharf/Causal/rubin.journ.psych.ed.pdf … (cf le passionnant http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/Ethics-of-Consulting-for-the-Tobacco-Industry.pdf …)"On peut être à la fois imbuvable et utile aux autres" http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/3980988c-7fd9-11e4-9a92-1e037d8e04b7/Je_suis_une_c...asse … ht @fadouce«Ah oui, les retraites ne seront plus assurées…» http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/eurojournaliste/article/031214/ah-oui-les-retraites-ne-seront-plus-assurees …