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A little bit late this week (busy week end), and as usual, a lot of interesting posts here, and there,"What happened to Lego" http://therealityprose.wordpress.com/… via siracusa and TimHarford"The Path to Being an Economics Professor" http://papers.ssrn.com/… via MargRev"Snow is notoriously hard to measure as it falls" http://wouramazingplanet.com/… via http://livescience.com/…"Casual modeling - in a probabilistic way - was more advanced in China than in Europe" http://cfh.ufsc.br/…"How Apple sets its prices" http://macworld.com/… by mtabini"Academia is a very well kept secret" http://guardian.co.uk/…[R]"R and the web (for beginners)" http://giventhedata.blogspot.ch/… (1) http://giventhedata.blogspot.ch/… (2) http://giventhedata.blogspot.ch/… (3)on academic writing http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/… "researchers who write book chapters might as well bury the paper in a hole in their garden""The Real, and Simple, Equation That Killed Wall Street" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/… “Hey, it wasn’t my fault, I was blinded by science.”"Can Nerd Nodes Reach Resistors Of Scientific Consensus?" http://forbes.com/… by ejwillingham"Some Economics of Banking Reform" http://economics.ox.ac.uk/… by Sir John Vickers via ChrisChavagneux"Networks of probability" http://web.mit.edu/ … via MarkThoma"P-values and statistical practice" http://andrewgelman.com/… about paper http://stat.columbia.edu/…"The Big Mac index" http://economist.com/…"Boston-area apartment prices" http://jefftk.com/...  with Python https://github.com/… adapted for San Fransisco on http://rentheatmap.com/"Visualizing the CRAN: Graphing Package Dependencies" http://librestats.com/… awesome !"Researchers opt to limit uses of open-access publications" http://nature.com/news/…Caffeine, by the numbers http://cenm.ag/caffeine  (pdf) or http://cen.acs.org/…"What not to do about the gender divide in science" http://scilogs.com/…"Burning down the house of Standard &#38; Poor’s" http://newyorker.com/… by TNYJohnCassidyan (interesting) American perspective "if finance capitalism really is the price of freedom we’ll pay it and tolerate its disruptions" http://dissentmagazine.org/…"Names You Need to Know in 2011: R Data Analysis Software" http://forbes.com/…"Bayesian vs. Frequentist: Is there any "there" there?" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/…"Casual speech may be too messy for careful writing, but it [is] full of linguistic virtues…needed for good writing." http://blog.oup.com/… via StanCarey“Why so many physical systems behave like random matrices is still a mystery” http://wired.com/wiredscience/… via davidwees"The sad tale of the aspiration treadmill" http://edge.org/q2008/… by Daniel Kahneman via adelaigue"The Philosophy of Data" http://nytimes.com/2013/… via sanderwagner"Girls Lead in Science Exam in 65 Countries, but Not in the United States" http://nytimes.com/… via aatishb and grantwiggins"Why are many academics on short-term contracts for years?" http://guardian.co.uk/education/… via curtrice JennyRohn figshare and alicewoolley1"Cost of knowledge boycott and future of academic publishing" http://math.mcmaster.ca/kevla/… (slides by Nicholas Kevlahan)A blog response to the GaryMarcus article (http://newyorker.com/online/…) on Bayesian analyses. Still not quite convinced. http://doingbayesiandataanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/… via StuartJRitchie"mismatch between some academics and social media is not so much fear of technology, but concerns over losing control" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…“Why is the denominator in the sample mean n, but the denominator for the sample variance is n−1?” http://bulletin.imstat.org/… via statfr"Does the Body Mass Index need fixing?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/…"What makes a sexy leg sexy?" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...  via http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/…"The Trouble with Wall Street" http://newrepublic.com/… "the shocking news that Goldman Sachs is greedy""How to Lose $3 Million in 1 Second" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/… (another) great article by Chris_arnade"The power and the terror of Irrational Expectation" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.fr/… by Noahpinion"I Pick, Something That Ends in ‘N’" http://nytimes.com/… ("36% newborn boys whose names end in N") via http://andrewgelman.com/… and blogizmo"By opening up a space between academic research and journalism, a thriving academic blogosphere mediates between them" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"Market Capitalization As A Percentage Of GDP" http://arborresearch.com/bianco/...  via ritholtz's blog http://ritholtz.com/blog/…"Mathematicians take publishers out of publishing" http://nature.com/news/… JP Demailly's researcher-run publishing system http://arxiv.org"Training Student Scientists to Communicate Science in Writing and Speech" http://speakingofscience.docteo.net/… via http://speakingofscience.docteo.net/… and ABonvoisin"Heuristics for identifying ecological fallacies?" http://andrewgelman.com/… on StatModeling's bloget toujours quelques articles en français,"Quand les entretiens d'embauche virent au délire" http://marianne.net/…Le cout d'un accident nucléaire, en France http://lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/… par CyrilleVan via guillaume_gui (il semble que l'étude soit http://fase76.org/… via http://lesechos.fr/… )«je n'ai pas besoin de mes mathématiques fortes» http://lapresse.ca/… ou quand un comptable, professeur d'administration, défend les mathsbeau billet d'économie de l'assurance http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/ … "L'assurance obligatoire des loyers est-elle une bonne idée?" par adelaigue"L’estimation de la gratuité scolaire universitaire" http://leglobe.ca/blog/…Quand la libido des hommes s'immisce dans le travail des femmes, "Le paradoxe érotique de l'infirmière" http://next.liberation.fr/sexe/... via SH_lelabo"Jean-Paul Pollin et Laurence Scialom sur la séparation et la régulation des activités bancaires" http://assemblee-nationale.fr/…Did I miss something ?