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Quote of the week"economical numbers" (according to Richard Feynman) "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."and a very interesting post, on science, publication and funding,"Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding" http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/… via ingorohlfing and brembs:And still, a lot of writings worth reading,"Killing our community: Obesity costs lives, burdens taxpayers" http://thenewsstar.com/article/20130624/… by mbrumble (and Amadou, my PhD student on similar topics)"One Man’s Tall is Another Man’s Small: How the Framing of Portion Size Influences Food Choice" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23765734 "Public Research for Private Gain" http://eastbayexpress.com/oakland/public-research-for-private-gain/… via cboettig"What if we were looking at inequality the wrong way" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/…"Password complexity rules more annoying, less effective than length ones" http://arstechnica.com/security/… by caseyjohnston,"60% Of Self-Proclaimed Vegetarians Ate Meat Yesterday" http://businessinsider.com/… via http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78 … more serious than CNN pool I guess"When good intentions go wrong: Effects of bank deregulation and governance on risk taking" http://voxeu.org/article/…"Want to Understand Mortality? Look to the Chimps" http://nytimes.com/2013/06/30/… via maggiekb1Information Monopolies Make Government Spying Easier" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/… via TimHarford"Why do we have sex at night?" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7200945  and http://biomedcentral.com/content/… via http://io9.com/… see e.g.On "the current dearth of frothy, funny, sigh-inducing entertainment" http://washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/… "what an economist might call over-determined""How to break into science writing using your blog and social media" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/incubator/… via boraz[Markov] "What's in your wallet?!" http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2060 "Curious seasonal changes in suicide" by David_Dobbs on http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/… via edyong209 see"Introducing the Blog on Math Blogs" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/… via MathIsMyLife"Continuous and Discrete" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/…[python] fivethirtyeight's algorithm http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/methodology/  now in python https://github.com/jseabold/538model …"The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/id=2274908 via MargRev"People Stopped Watching Porn During The NBA Finals" http://www.businessinsider.com…“Copying allowed the economy of the US to grow in the 18th and 19th centuries, today it allows China to do the same" http://foreignaffairs.com/articles/139452…"How do blogs differ from the economics profession?" http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/… on MargRev's blog"Is there too much coauthorship in economics (and science more generally)? Or too little?" http://andrewgelman.com/2013/… on StatModeling 's blog"Mathematicians: on the forefront of cancer research?" http://scieng-women-ontario.ca/en/201306/… via NGhoussoub[big data] "Connecting the Dots, Missing the Story" http://slate.com/articles/technology/…"Did Poor Math Skills Cause Subprime Meltdown?" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/…“How Much Do You Like Your Name?” http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii… via ‏improbresearch's http://improbable.com/…"The complacency of the meritocrats" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"Don't Let Paper Paradigms Drive Your Digital Strategy" http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/… via davidbauer"Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S." http://mcclatchydc.com/… via jorgeo and http://digbysblog.blogspot.com.br/ …"Déjà Vu" by Alan Riding http://nytimes.com/… on France in 2013, and in the 1930set un bon nombre de billets interessants, en francais, cette semaine, dont plusieurs sur le monde academique,[Qualifornication] "Pourquoi la suppression de la qualification est vraiment un faux-problème" http://affordance.typepad.com//mon_weblog/2013/06/qualifornication.html …"endorecrutement autre nom du "localisme" 21% chez les MCF et 43% chez les PR la qualif me semble un drôle de rempart" http://cache.media.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/… via ladej"Chez Simplon.co à Montreuil, même ta mère peut apprendre à coder" http://alternatives.blog.lemonde.fr/ … via FrancoisTaddei[business] écouter les consultants, ou les universitaires ? http://lemonde.fr/economie/… (découvert via @smbbib )"Les enjeux économiques du droit des faillites", par Guillaume Plantin, David Thesmar et Jean Tirole http://cae.gouv.fr/IMG… via JCSBruegelpassionnant "Plagiat universitaire : le pacte de non-lecture" http://lemonde.fr/idees/article/… (pas repéré à l'époque) via http://hyperbate.fr/dernier/?p=26107 …comment donner un cours http://blog.educpros.fr/isabelle-barth/ … par Isabelle_Barth réflexion intéressante (au delà des massive open online course)"Etudier à l’université est un échec..." http://blog.educpros.fr/pierredubois/… sur http://blog.educpros.fr/pierredubois/files/… ("à quand la fermeture des UFR de sciences ?")ce qui attend l'université francaise (ou LRU2) http://blog.educpros.fr/henriaudier/…"Assurances et catastrophes naturelles : le pire devient certain" http://louisbachelier.org/dossier/…« Le bateau universitaire “coule”, celles et ceux qui savent nager quittent le navire,... » http://sauvonsluniversite.com/spip.php?article6160 via @piotr70"Copyright Madness" http://sam7blog42.fr/2… et http://storify.com/Copyrightmad  découvert via http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2013/… pour les amateurs de ppt seulement"Ambigrammes et boustrophédons" par AlainKorkos pour arretsurimages sur http://arretsurimages.net/…Did I miss something ?