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Some posts and articles worth reading"The 2014 Nobel Laureate in economics is Jean Tirole" http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/10/2014-nobel-laureates-in-economics-are-jean-tirole.html … by @tylercowen ht @latrive"The Simple Economics of Open Source" http://www.nber.org/papers/w7600  by Josh Lerner and Jean Triole[free ebook] "The Field Guide to Data Science" http://www.boozallen.com/content/dam/boozallen/media/file/The-Field-Guide-to-Data-Science.pdf …in the U.S. "Reading Level of Presidential Speeches Declines Over Time" http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2iv98y/reading_level_of_presidential_speeches_declines/ …"How did English become the language of science?" http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-10-06/how-did-english-become-language-science …"How English beat German as language of science" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29543708 … ht @Sciencesharenew"Blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted people" http://sciencenordic.com/blind-people-have-four-times-more-nightmares-sighted-people …via @replicakill The four F's"Michael Brown jury: putting a value on a black life in the United States" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/10/michael-brown-jury-black-life-united-states …"Why the Trolls Will Always Win" http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point/ … via http://www.wired.com/2014/10/trolls-will-always-win …"Heavier Babies Do Better in School" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/upshot/heavier-babies-do-better-in-school.html?src=twr&#38;smid=tw-upshotnyt&#38;_r=0&#38;abt=0002&#38;abg=0 … ht @econoclaste"This isn’t a natural disaster, this is the terrorism of poverty" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/wp/2014/10/06/paul-farmer-on-ebola-this-isnt-a-natural-disaster-this-is-the-terrorism-of-poverty/ … by @JoelAchenbach"I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds" https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf …"The American Media Is in Full Panic Mode Over Ebola — And It's Only Making Things Worse" http://mic.com/articles/100858/the-american-media-is-in-full-panic-mode-over-ebola-and-it-s-only-making-things-worse…"Free markets need socialism" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/10/free-markets-need-socialism.html …"Rational ≠ Self-interested" http://andrewgelman.com/2014/10/07/rationality-self-interested/ …"Seeking Identity, ‘Hong Kong People’ Look to City, Not State" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/world/asia/hong-kong-people-looking-in-mirror-see-fading-chinese-identity.html …"Simulation of how long it's likely to take for a virus to infect 100 unvaccinated people" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/health/how-ebola-spreads/ …"Impact of heterogeneity and socioeconomic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems" http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/02/1309389111.abstract …"Revisiting the Impacts of Teachers" http://eml.berkeley.edu/~jrothst/workingpapers/rothstein_cfr.pdf … ht @tylercowen"Actually, People Still Like to Think" http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/thinking-alone … by @ferrisjabr"Data scientists: Sexy or insufferable?" http://vooza.com/videos/big-data/ … via ht http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2014/10/10/data-scientists-sexy-insufferable/…"What Will It Take to Run A 2-Hour Marathon?" http://rw.runnersworld.com/sub-2/"Mine Your Digital Business" http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sell-your-own-digital-data-by-nathan-eagle-2014-10 …"The Physics of Doing an Ollie on a Skateboard, or, the Science of Why I Can’t Skate" http://www.wired.com/2014/10/skateboard-physics-empzeal/ …"Why data personalisation will go too far and regulators will swoop" http://www.brw.com.au/p/tech-gadgets/why_data_personalisation_will_swoop_vowgC8uWC4fGxrBjxi3xrI …"We are in the era of big data, and big data needs statisticians to make sense of it" http://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-career-advice-young-professionals-2014-10 … by @ericschmidt ht @ThisisStats"Literacy Rate of the Young vs. the Elderly" http://www.ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ourworldindata_world-maps-of-the-literacy-rate-by-age-group_max-roser.png … (ht http://www.ourworldindata.org/data/education-knowledge/literacy/#world-maps-of-the-literacy-rate-by-age-group-max-roserref …)"Global map of forest height" http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20120217map.html …"The Manhattan Apartment that’s the Farthest from any Subway" http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/99544282749/found-the-manhattan-apartment-thats-the-farthest-from …"Mapped: How public transit changes your job prospects" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/07/mapped-how-public-transit-changes-your-job-prospects/ …"Average number of languages spoken by the EU population" http://jakubmarian.com/average-number-of-languages-spoken-by-the-eu-population/ … ht @visionscarto"America has grown more unequal and divided, cities and metro areas have become even more so" http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/09/the-divided-city/380873/ … http://martinprosperity.org/media/Divided%20City_Final_Revised.pdf …"The moment of uncertainty" http://philipball.blogspot.fr/2014/10/the-moment-of-uncertainty.html …RT @vprot "On submission of scientific papers!"et un peu de lecture en français,"Le Nobel à Jean Tirole : un signe de la victoire de la micro sur la macro-économie" http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20141013trib8c4b773ff/le-nobel-a-jean-tirole-un-signe-de-la-victoire-de-la-micro-sur-la-macro-economie.html… par @Iv_Best"Le principe pollueur-payeur appliqué au licenciement" http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2003/10/11/le-principe-pollueur-payeur-applique-au-licenciement_447806 … ht @atterres et @econoclaste"Jean Tirole : de la théorie des jeux et de l'information aux sciences humaines" http://ses.ens-lyon.fr/jean-tirole-de-la-theorie-des-jeux-et-de-l-information-aux-sciences-humaines-50777.kjsp?RH=05 …par @adelaigue "Jean Tirole, prix Nobel d'économie 2014" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/2014/10/13/jean-tirole-prix-nobel-deconomie-2014.html … (la bio que tout le monde attendait)"Les Etats-Unis s'arrachent nos économistes" http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2014/09/06/les-etats-unis-s-arrachent-nos-economistes_4483079_3234.html … ("le retour ne va jamais de soi") par @ClaireGuelaudles meilleures blagues sont toujours les plus drôles http://www.lesmotsontunsens.com/vainqueur-laureat-du-prix-nobel-2008-de-l-economie-revient-a-madame-bruchon-dessin-20081007 … en 2008, déjà"Faut-il repenser la théorie de l'évolution?" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2014/10/la-th%C3%A9orie-de-l%C3%A9volution-%C3%A0-repenser-.html … par @HuetSylvestre"Sociologie des allocations familiales..." http://grosse.fatigue.free.fr/causetoujours/spip.php?article452 …"Les révélations chocs sur les liens entre la Fed et Wall Street" http://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/marches-financiers/0203841355056-lenquete-choc-sur-les-relations-troubles-de-la-fed-avec-wall-street-1052406.php …"Mais que veut dire au juste Tim Berners-Lee lorsqu’il parle de « propriété des données » ?" http://scinfolex.com/2014/10/10/mais-que-veut-dire-au-juste-tim-berners-lee-lorsquil-parle-de-propriete-des-donnees/ …"Géographie de l’enfance" http://visionscarto.net/geographie-de-l-enfance … par @visionscarto"La désertion idéologique de la gauche accentue le virage à droite de la société française" http://www.slate.fr/story/93183/desertion-ideologique-gauche-virage-droite … par @e_dupin"Universalité des allocations familiales et paradoxe de la redistribution" http://leconome.blogs.liberation.fr/leconome/2014/10/modulation-des-allocations-familiales-et-paradoxe-de-la-redistribution.html … par @g_allegre ht @martin_anotaRT @SciencesEnMarch "Mais pourquoi les chercheurs nous cassent les oreilles avec le Crédit Impôt Recherche ?" http://sciensationnel.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/10/09/mais-pourquoi-les-chercheurs-nous-cassent-les-oreilles-avec-le-credit-impot-recherche/ …"Le quiz d'économie le plus difficile de monde" http://info.arte.tv/fr/le-quiz-deconomie-le-plus-difficile-de-monde … via @MarjorieGaly et @martin_anota"Avalanche, tsunamis et volcans : une histoire de mégabanques" http://www.lenouveleconomiste.fr/avalanche-tsunamis-volcans-histoire-megabanques-24440/ …"Une croissance exponentielle, une vraie" http://david.monniaux.free.fr/dotclear/index.php/post/2014/10/08/Une-croissance-exponentielle%2C-une-vraie … par @dmonniaux (ou l'utilisation d'une échelle log. http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/16146 )biodiversité du potager, http://www.lesoir.be/673415/article/demain-terre/biodiversite/2014-10-07/troquer-des-graines-pour-preserver-biodiversite-du-potager … "en un siècle, 75 % de la diversité génétique cultivée a disparu"Did I miss something interesting?