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Some writings worth reading, discovered here and there, this week,"Why Are Books Getting Longer?" http://bookriot.com/2014/… by @JeremyAnderberg (need more data to study that trend... nevertheless interesting)"We Experiment On Human Beings!" http://blog.okcupid.com/…World War I http://theeconomist.tumblr.com/93123199667…" What Is Public?" https://medium.com/message/f33b16d780f9 … by @anildashMaths and languages: 97 = 90+7 (English, ninety seven) 7+90 (German, siebenundneunzig) 4x20+10+7 (French, quatre vingt dix sept) ht @jbdbaParis for New-Yorkers vs. NYC pour les Parisiens http://parisvsnyc.blogspot.fr/…"Logarithms celebrate their 400th birthday" https://sciencenews.org/blog… by @tom_siegfried"Data adds to confusion over polar sea ice" http://climatenewsnetwork.net/… ht @visionscarto"A Survey of Fuel Prices Around the World" http://supplyside.tumblr.com/92944411592…"A Python Script Controlled via Twitter" http://zulko.github.io/blog/… ht @arnicas @igorcarron"The New French Hacker-Artist Underground" http://wired.com/2012/… ht @corentin_lamy"A Network Analysis of Food Flows within the United States of America" http://pubs.acs.org/es500471d … ht @olivier_frey"Black families fight entrenched prejudices to get fair discipline for their children in schools" http://washingtonpost.com/posteverything/… ht @Uneheuredepeine"Why Golfers Buy Hole In One Insurance" http://priceonomics.com/… by @amayyasi (reminds me when I was pricing that product, in Hong Kong...)"Anatomy of songs" http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/  by @wronghands1"Our long history of hating the French" http://dailydot.com/opinion/… (I also appreciated Clarke’s book "1000 Years of Annoying the French")"How to think like a microeconomist" http://mathbabe.org/2014/… by @mathbabedotorg"Incarceration rates among founding NATO member countries" http://prisonpolicy.org/global/  (nice and interesting dataviz')"The Superforecasters" http://npr.org/blogs/parallels/… "So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent"The Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes 1970-2012 http://wmo.int/pages/…iPhone are slow http://nytimes.com/2014/…"Getting started in data science: My thoughts" http://treycausey.com/getting_started.html …"Why Do Americans Stink at Math?" http://nytimes.com/2014/… ht @JohnAllenPaulosLast month was the hottest June on record globally. How it compared to other Junes http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/…and "last month was the warmest June since records began being kept in 1880" http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/…"Providing farmers with rainfall insurance makes them take more risks, and do better,... http://faculty.som.yale.edu/mushfiqmobarak/… ht @cblattsin 2012, most countries had a majority defavorable view of Israel http://globescan.com/images/… (for many other countries)RT @laurenfosternyc the lone genius is a myth that has outlived its usefulness; creativity is collaborative http://nytimes.com/2014/…"How Graphic Design Can Make Flying Just a Little Bit Safer" http://nautil.us/blog/…Drawing D.C. http://washingtonpost.com/drawing-dc-together/… "Together Trainspotting: my new life drawing class", ht @stephenhuppert"Do Defaults Save Lives?" http://webs.wofford.edu/pechwj/… organ donorship, and opt-in vs opt-out polices"Either almost everyone survives a plane accident or almost no one does" http://vox.com/2014…Economic development and (self reported) happiness http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/…"5 ‘Dirty Words’ Admissions Offices Should Embrace" http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/ … see also the interesting comment http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/…Wage data, Average and Median Amounts (in the U.S.) http://ssa.gov/oact/cola/… (as well as their ratio...)et un peu de lecture en français,"Plus de 67h par semaine, ça démontre une sérieuse perte de contrôle qui entraîne des conséquences significatives" http://lapresse.ca/la-tribune/…[scoring] "Comment Washington dresse sa liste noire de terroristes" http://lapresse.ca/international/…"Les flux de réfugiés ne dépendent pas des politiques migratoires" http://asile.ch/vivre-ensemble/… (mais ils sont saisonniers)"L’open data ou « l’illusion que le rôle de l’expert technocrate est diminué »" http://lagazettedescommunes.com/244988… ht @jeanlucrMT @1jour1carte "openstreetmap version actuelle comparée à 2007..." http://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/…Did I miss something interesting?