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Some posts and articles worth reading"What’s wrong with Science" http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21591549-and-nature-and-cell-nobel-prize-winner-attacks-elite-journals-whats-wrong … "science as a whole is being distorted by perverse incentives""Economics at the North Pole: Are Santa’s Elves Slaves?" http://www.psmag.com/navigation/business-economics/economics-north-pole-santas-elves-slaves-96953/ … by @elliswonknba stats, and dataviz' http://stats.nba.com/featured/movement_animations_2014_10_27.html …"The battle for Santa Claus’s home" http://www.azernews.az/analysis/75183.html …Hours of work, per week (via http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-humans-spend-their-time-2014-12?r=US …)"Should Unprovable Physics Be Considered Philosophy?" http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-still-no-physics-above-science …How the US population fits into Africa, and Asia (via http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/ )"Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer" http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/airlines-want-you-to-suffer?mbid=rss&#38; … by @superwuster"Ten Years Since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami" http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/12/ten-years-since-the-2004-indian-ocean-tsunami/100878/ …"On k-Anonymity and the Curse of Dimensionality" http://www.vldb2005.org/program/paper/fri/p901-aggarwal.pdf …via @NinjaEconomics This is what GDP growth looks like around the world. http://read.bi/1uv1WfN "The Real Story of How America Became an Economic Superpower" http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/the-real-story-of-how-america-became-an-economic-superpower/384034/?single_page=true … ht @noahpinion"Banish Procrastination by Thinking Differently About Deadlines" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/banish-procrastination-by-thinking-differently-about-deadlines/…"How science blogs are connected" via @neuroecology and @FromTheLabBench http://figshare.com/articles/MySciBlog_Survey_Top_Read_SciBlogs_by_SciBloggers/1278974 …see e.g."Common sense and statistics" http://andrewgelman.com/2014/12/25/common-sense-statistics/ …"Human Nature and the Moral Economy" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/2013/09/23/human-nature-and-the-moral-economy/ … ht @schulte_stef"Less than half of U.S. kids today live in a ‘traditional’ family" http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/22/less-than-half-of-u-s-kids-today-live-in-a-traditional-family/ …"PLOS is anti-elitist! PLOS is elitist! The weird world of open access journalism" http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1673#sthash.wjsIF4K7.dpuf …"Generation What?" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/12/02/generational-data-is-lousy-but-we-can-fix-that …via @laurenfosternyc "Stop Texting While Walking" http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/fashion/in-2015-resolve-to-stop-texting-while-walking.html …Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1756/20123065 … via http://uk.businessinsider.com/folktale-map-reveals-cultural-links-2014-12 …"sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations" http://www.nber.org/papers/w10499  (just in case you were still wondering...)"What could possibly go wrong next year? A pessimist's guide to 2015" http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-flash-points/?hootPostID=8ac47b59f9f297f5aa7664a1fc7b7a8a …MSWord vs. LaTeX for academic publishing http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0115069 … "even experienced LaTeX users may suffer a loss in productivity""Nearly A Third Of All Female Prisoners Worldwide Are Incarcerated In The United States" http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2014/09/23/nearly-a-third-of-all-female-prisoners-worldwide…"How Do Young Adults Then Compare With Young Adults Now?" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/12/02/generational-data-is-lousy-but-we-can-fix-that/ …et un peu de lecture en français"Les mots ont un sens : digital" http://statistique.blogs.sciencesetavenir.fr/archive/2014/10/24/titre-de-la-note-23094.html … par @a_bhvia @blogueduvoisin "Enseignement supérieur - «Je veux être un esclave!»" http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/417231/enseignement-superieur-je-veux-etre-un-esclave …"Nos villes sont de plus en plus hostiles" http://www.vice.com/fr/read/nos-villes-sont-de-plus-en-plus-hostiles?utm_source=vicetwitterfr … via @vicefr par @DainAntoine"L'Île-de-France en bande dessinée" http://www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/carte-interactive-l-ile-de-france-en-bande-dessinee-26-12-2014-4401767.php … par @louismoulin"Oser la démocratie" http://blogs.afp.com/makingof/?post/hong-kong-oser-la-democratie#.VJ0UnbAALI … par @Alex_Ogle ht @gunthert"Nouveaux modèles du numérique : une économie ouverte se développe-t-elle ?" https://www.franceculture.fr/emission-pixel-nouveaux-modeles-du-numerique-une-economie-ouverte-se-developpe-t-elle-2014-12-19#.VJ1UdeQuJE4.twitter … ht @StephaneManet"La programmation pour les non-programmeurs" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/12/26/programmation-les-non-programmeurs-256677 … par @remisussan et l'informatique sans ordinateur http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/11138Did I miss something interesting?