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Some writings worth reading,Florence (Italy) and highway interchange in Atlanta (U.S.A.) http://treehugger.com/urban-design/… (same scale) by @stevemouzon and @lloydalter"Why Does Stepping On A Lego Hurt so Much?" http://todayifoundout.com/index.php…"Pensions à la mode" http://economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21602704… "Average returns on investments for retirement conceal huge variation""Change Dot Biz" http://informationdiet.com/blog/… (see also http://forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/…) ht http://alternatives.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/…"Interactions of cultures and top people of Wikipedia from 24 language editions" http://arxiv.org/1405.7183 ht @Axel_VF"The Era of Cloud Computing" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/…"Know Your Double" https://medium.com/the-nib/know … "A doppelgänger field guide""The Roommate Problem Is More Stable than You Think" http://papers.ssrn.com/id=1991460 …"Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy" Part 1 http://smartdatacollective.com/deanabbott/202916…, part 2 http://smartdatacollective.com/deanabbott/202911… by @deanabb ht @kdnuggetsImperialism and colonialism (via http://polyp.org.uk/cartoons)"World Cup birthday paradox: footballers born on the same day" http://theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2014/jun/…"Formula for Linear Equations by Country" via http://thelandofmaps.tumblr.com/… (the source for linear equation formula is likely http://mathsisfun.com/…. Found via http://reddit.com/r/MapPorn/… thanks to@fgrosshans)"Reproducible research is still a challenge" http://ropensci.org/blog/2014/… ht @RPanczak"The World Cup and Economics 2014" http://goldmansachs.com/our-thinking… see (among many others)"The weird Google searches of the unemployed and what they say about the economy" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"Dogmatic Indifference" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.de/2014/06/… by @TCJUK"A New Way to Look at Law, With Data Viz and Machine Learning" http://wired.com/2014/06/… see"Father’s brain is sensitive to childcare experiences" http://pnas.org/content/1402569111 (just in case you had doubts)"How El Niño will change the world’s weather in 2014" http://theguardian.com/environment/… (ht @visionscarto)"The Great Wall of China: a physical barrier to gene flow?" http://nature.com/hdy/journal/v90… (poke @Geopolitics2020 )"Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road" http://tandfonline.com/10.1080/08109028.2014.891710 via http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/r… ht @Enroweb"Survey on polarization in America" http://pewrsr.ch/..."What Happens To A Bridge When One Side Uses Mediterranean Sea Level And Another The North Sea?" http://science20.com/news_articles/…  (via http://atlantico.fr/decryptage/…)FIFA World Cup (ht @ve824095)"How big data is changing how we study languages" http://theguardian.com/education/…"What happened to animal spirits?" https://economist.com/news/britain… "Mergers involving British firms are at record lows""The longer the calm lasts, the eerier it becomes" http://ft.com/intl/cms/… seeFIFA World Cup http://nytimes.com/2014/06/11/upshot/… Everybody hates everyone (and Americans clearly don't get it, or thing that FIFA World Cup is like the World Series in Baseball)"The Hidden Alpha in Equity Trading" http://oliverwyman.com/content/dam/oliver-wyman/… ht @SniperInMahwah"The Violent Legacy of Africa’s Arbitrary Borders" http://freakonomics.com/2011/12/01… (ht @visionscarto)"Overworked and isolated - work pressure fuels mental illness in academia" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/…"How long can the art market boom last?" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/…"Disability-adjusted life year (DALY)" http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-cause-patterns/ see"So Far, Big Data Is Small Potatoes" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/… by @Horganism"The Three Little Pigs" http://aschinchon.wordpress.com/ … by @aschinchon ht @Rbloggers"Reverse Engineering Socialbot Infiltration Strategies in Twitter" http://arxiv.org/1405.4927  via http://technologyreview.com/view/527746/…"Going Viral" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/…via @douglasmarshall "Stuck on the fridge at BBC Hull - 'How to write good'""Some sleeping habits" http://nymag.com/health/bestdoctors/2014/… see"Hurricane luck will run out" http://usatoday.com/story/opinion/… by @RogerPielkeJr see also on his blog http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.ca/2014/06…Thoughts for the Day (by @calvinandhobbes)et un peu de lecture en français,en France, "la culture contribue sept fois plus au PIB que l'industrie automobile" http://latribune.fr/actualites/economie/france/… (ressorti par @econoclaste)"Les Grandes Ecoles [et les universités?] à l'heure de l'économie de la connaissance, du numérique, et du Big Data" http://huffingtonpost.fr/nicolas-glady/…"L’accès à des sources de savoir multiples accentue au contraire le besoin de médiation." http://liberation.fr/societe/2014/06…via @ElJj: Quelle est la différence entre un pigeon ?"Repenser le rapprochement" (entre universités) http://lemonde.fr/idees… ht @Gjpvernant"La France a sacrifié sa jeunesse plus que n'importe quelle autre société développé" https://lemonde.fr/societe/ … cf"Cohort inequalities in terms of disposable incomes" via http://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/16270/… ht @blaquanset "Inégalités entre générations : les chiffres bruts" par @g_allegreDid I miss something ?