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Some interesting posts, here and there, discovered this week,"A theorem fit to terrify bankers" http://timharford.com/… namely Modigliani–Miller http://en.wikipedia.org/… aka the M&#38;M theorem..."Can Twitter open up a new space for learning, teaching and thinking?" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/…"We are the 5%" http://techcrunch.com/… “Zero TV Households Now At 5 Million, Up From 3 Million In 2007, But Still Just 5% Of Market”what does a like on Facebook says about you... "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior" http://pnas.org/content/…I want to teach it ! "MAT4996 Mathematical Modelling of Zombies" http://science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/… the textbook is http://www.press.uottawa.ca/… via renaudjf"Word usage mirrors community structure in the online social network Twitter" http://epjdatascience.com/content/2/1/3"Should Insurance Regulators Handle Derivatives?" http://bloom.bg/10RM8e0  via ritholtz"How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Blog" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/ … via paslap (in 2005)"NIH grants should fund research – not subsidize universities" by BioWorld http://ow.ly/iRFnr  via tomroudevolution, via http://bizarrocomics.com/  by Dan Piraro"Panel Says J.P. Morgan Misled Regulators and Investors, Ignored Risks in Big Trades" http://online.wsj.com/… see"Statistics Declares War on Machine Learning!" http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/ … by larrywasserman"gambling machine puzzle" http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/… with CJBayesian's solution http://bayesianbiologist.com/…"Is There Life After Work?" (and Twitter?) http://nytimes.com/… by Erin Callaninteresting! "Research excellence is about more than the number of bodies in a building" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/… by alexbol[logarithm are everywhere] today: Nutella consumption and the log scale,"Economic inequality contributing to gap in life expectancy" http://washingtonpost.com/business/economy/…"Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration" by Matthew Barsalou http://significancemagazine.org/details/… on signmagazine's blog"The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11,000 Years" http://slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/… see also http://sciencemag.org…"How Many Americans Have a Passport?" http://cgpgrey.com/blog/… (not sure if we talk about US passport here....)"Choosing the Right Seat" http://blog.alexcornell.com/… by alexcornell"A Corporate Finance Bestiary" http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.ca/… by EpicureanDealhe won ! https://equinoxpub.com/journals/7344 … “Most obscene title of a peer-reviewed scientific article” award via http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/research/… and MargRev"Misunderstanding the p-value" http://andrewgelman.com/…"People whose results were closer to the fatal cutoff point of p=5% were less likely to share data" http://psychologytoday.com/blog/the-folly-fools/… via MargRevDu coté des blogs francophones (et des journaux en ligne)"La fin des centres commerciaux?" http://frogonomics.wordpress.com/… par François Gourio, via adelaigue et FrogonomicsBlog"10% des individus influencent les 90% restants" http://zdnet.fr/actualites… via Humanosphere CathCervoni romainblachier et rhunold"Le statisticien de Dieu" http://lapresse.ca/actualites/… via J_P_Boucher"les universités n'offrent pas les compétences en programmation informatique dont les entreprises ont besoin" http://lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lmi/…"Les twittos ne lisent pas les articles qu’ils partagent" http://feedly.com/k/WkWOOD  via le_med l'étude citée est légère http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/…"D’où proviennent nos intuitions mathématiques ?" http://universcience.tv/…"Soutenez vos journalistes scientifiques" http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/… par paslap sur le blog de SciencePresseet un moment de détente avec"Il frôle la mort après un voyage en avion aux côtés d'une jolie femme" http://gentside.com/insolite/ … via ticxhusinon, il semble qu'il neige en Normandie,Did I miss something this week ?