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Some writings worth reading, starting with"Unreliable research: Trouble at the lab" http://economist.com/news/briefing/… and "Problems with scientific research: How science goes wrong" http://economist.com/news/leaders/… see also "Bad Science" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/7952  via http://srqm.tumblr.com/  see but also"Too much publishing? seriously?" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/…[Resources for teaching statistics] e.g. "Outlines risks and how people deal with them" http://new.censusatschool.org.nz/wp-content/… via http://new.censusatschool.org.nz/resource/…"The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability" http://nature.com/nature/journal/v502/…"Conformal Maps" http://mathgifs.blogspot.ca/2013/10/ …"The F Problem With The P-Value Sciences" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/…"This Is the Average Man's Body" http://theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/ … see U.S., Japan, Netherlands, and France"P-value fallacy alive and well" http://bayesianbiologist.com/2013/10/17… by @CJBayesian"Clustering Near the Seat of Power" (in Brussels) http://nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/18… see"Are markets 'efficient' or irrational?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine… by @TimHarford and @Ruth__Alexander"Inside the Fox News lie machine" http://salon.com/2013/10/18/…"Eight cool things journalists should know about statistics" http://poynter.org/latest-news/226489/…"Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls" in the U.S. http://bit.ly/1bFTW4g  see(unfinished) "PDE Coffee Table Book" http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/… via @stochastician awsome !"Physicists and the financial markets" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/8…"How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics" http://technologyreview.com/view/519581/… also http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4168 "Weird Tumblrs" https://evernote.com/shard/s41 … via @LouWoodley @notscientific"When Americans use mobile apps" http://qz.com/134810/… see[free ebook] "Machine learning and optimization" http://lionsolver.com/LIONbook/  by @rbattiti"Curricula for journalism education" http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/… (interesting thoughts on data journalism) via @albertocairo"How “Dilbert” Practically Wrote Itself" http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/… by @MeghanEnnes via @albertocairo "It must be true because it's a pie" http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-03-07/ … see"Why art dealers don’t want to talk about prices." http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/… via @tylercowen"20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being Offered At U.S. Universities" http://zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-07…on  Twitter, "Posting times reveal if you're a bot" http://plosone.org/article/info%25… I wonder if I am a bot or if I have a chaotic sleep[free ebook] pre-publication draft of "Networks, Crowds, and Markets" by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg http://cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/…"Sveriges Riksbank prize actually, blah blah blah" http://crookedtimber.org/2013/10/15…"Should I check e-mail?" http://a-fwd.com/es=farstrblo068-21&#38;it=f… illustrated flow chart via @farnamstreet see"Beating the Market: Yes, it can be done" http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/… via @SylvainCFAt least ! https://github.com/jrnold/ggthemes… you can now get Excel-2003 type graphs using R, via @mpmanti and @vsbuffalo[map] "What each country leads the world in"&#160;avec un peu de lecture en français"Vive les sciences quantitatives !" http://scilogs.fr/vivelaconnaissance/ …"Le commentaire à l’ère du numérique – La recherche universitaire 2.0" http://biospraktikos.hypotheses.org/972  par @MaelGoarzinDid I miss something ?