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yes, extreme winds  cause a waterfall (in England) to blow upwardand some more posts and articles worth reading"Climate records are breaking so often now, we’ve stopped paying attention" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/21/temperatures-have-been-above-average-for-355-straight-months/ …"A look into the deep, dark, strangely complicated world of Simpsons mathematics" http://boingboing.net/2014/10/17/homers-last-theorem.html … by Simon Singh"2014 Ebola Outbreak: Worldwide Air Transportation and Relative Import Risk" http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/D3/ebola/ waouh RT @BrilliantMaps A map of every car bomb explosion in Baghdad since 2003 (source http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/oct/23/wikileaks-iraq-data-journalism via @Jean_no)How to Map a Sandwich: Surfaces, Topological Existence Theorem and the Changing Nature of Modern Thematic Cartography http://www.stonybrook.edu/libmap/coordinates/seriesa/no7/a7.htm …"It Costs Central Banks $200 Billion Per Quarter To Avoid A Market Crash" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-21/magic-number-revealed-it-costs-central-banks-200-billion-quarter-avoid-market-crash … by @zerohedge"How Text Messages Change From Dating to Marriage" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alice-zhao/how-text-messages-change-_b_6021932.html …"The Divided City" http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/09/the-divided-city/380873/?elq=636731f1054444b7b1ac067f9c0d6bf1 …"Helen Nissenbaum on Ad Nauseum, resistance through obfuscation, and weapons of the weak" http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/10/06/helen-nissenbaum-on-ad-nauseum-resistance-through-obfuscation-and-weapons-of-the-weak/ … via http://www.internetactu.net/2014/10/22/lobfuscation-larme-du-faible …"Visualised: how Ebola compares to other infectious diseases" http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/oct/15/visualised-how-ebola-compares-to-other-infectious-diseases …"Who’s Afraid of Open Peer Review?" http://blog.peerj.com/post/100580518238/whos-afraid-of-open-peer-review … ht @p_binfield"Why do academics dress so badly? (Answer: they are too happy)" http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/21/why-do-academics-dress-so-badly …"The pay gap between CEOs and workers is much worse than you realize" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/25/the-pay-gap-between-ceos-and-workers-is-much-worse-than-you-realize/ … ht @PierreAGERON"Martin Gardner, puzzle master extraordinaire" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29688355 …"Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts" http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/machinelearning-maestro-michael-jordan-on-the-delusions-of-big-data-and-other-huge-engineering-efforts#qaTopicOne …"Ebola in West Africa " http://ec.europa.eu/echo/en/ebola-in-west-africa …"How Facebook is wrecking political news" http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/10580/facebook-trending-topics-journalism/ …"The evidence on travel bans for diseases like Ebola is clear: they don't work" http://www.vox.com/2014/10/18/6994413/research-travel-bans-ebola-virus-outbreak …"Comparative language fuzz testing: Programming languages vs. fat fingers" http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2012-PLATEAU-Fuzzer/pub/html/fuzzer.html … ht @MarcAbrahams"The Hot Zone” and the mythos of Ebola" http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2014/10/21/the-hot-zone-and-the-mythos-of-ebola/ … via @JenLucPiquant and @mart1oeilawesome http://www.papierfliegerei.de/PF-Physik.html  lots of data and info about paper airplanes, via @MarcAbrahams Perfect website for a Sunday!"When a Stock Market Theory Is Contagious" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/business/economy/when-a-stock-market-theory-is-contagious.html … by Robert Shiller, ht @MarkThomavia  @randal_olson "The Most Common Jobs For The Rich, Middle Class And Poor" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/16/356176018/the-most-popular-jobs-for-the-rich-middle-class-and-poor …"The two-body opportunity" https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/the-two-body-opportunity/ … (on Academic couples) via @tomroud"Small multiples are great, and the right interactions can make them even better" http://flowingdata.com/2014/10/15/linked-small-multiples/ … by @vlandham"America is Becoming Less Religious" http://priceonomics.com/america-is-becoming-less-religious-secular/ …"Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/18/poor-kids-who-do-everything-right-dont-do-better-than-rich-kids-who-do-everything-wrong/ …Media Trust http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/section-1-media-sources-distinct-favorites-emerge-on-the-left-and-right/ …"In Defense Of Science" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-bines/in-defense-of-science_b_5999976.html …A dynamic version of https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/522817071512846336 … e.g. what americans have been eating, over 50 years"Here's What The News Was Like On 'Black Monday'" http://www.businessinsider.com/black-monday-nightly-business-report-2014-10#ixzz3Gi6Sflk1 … ht @TheStalwart see also https://youtu.be/4pjSlIkNxXgvia  @mattmight "We should track the W/W ratio for scientists: [time spent Wondering on hard problems]/[time spent Worrying about funding]"The point in the ocean farthest from land, and the point on the land farthest from ocean (via http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/ )"Most Americans Don’t Know It, But Their Odds of Getting Laid Off Have Never Been Lower" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/10/16/most-americans-dont-know-it-but-their-odds-of-getting-laid-off-have-never-been-lower/ …"Ebola and the Epidemics of the Past" http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-and-the-epidemics-of-the-past-1413572106 …"Growth of Average Web Page Size and Number of Objects - Jan 1995 - July 2014" http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/average-web-page/ …"Insurers using analytics to combat competitive threat" http://www.actuarialpost.co.uk/article/insurers-using-analytics-to-combat-competitive-threat-6809.htm …"Deal or No Deal? Decision Making under Risk in a Large-Payoff Game Show" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?=636508 … (see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/8718 )"Organized Crime Pays" http://www.vice.com/read/organized-crime-pays-0000477-v21n10 … by @robertosaviano"The Role of Conferences on the Pathway to Academic Impact" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?2507361 …"Pandemic Influenza Risk Communication" http://www.psandman.com/col/pandemic.htm …"What is a foreign language worth?" (for Americans) http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/03/language-study?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/whatisaforeignlanguageworth … via http://datarep.tumblr.com/ "Distrust in Finance Lingers: Jewish Persecution and Households'Investments" http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/francesco_dacunto/papers/AntisemFinW_Jun14.pdf … ht http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21625878…"Nicholas Penny, the director of the National Gallery rails against the ‘distorting’ effects of contemporary art" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a9fe6d34-699e-11e3-89ce-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3GZVLsJBl … "Are Women Better Decision Makers? " http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/opinion/sunday/are-women-better-decision-makers.html?_r=0 … (spoiler: yes, they are)"Is sex only for rich people?" by @crampell http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-family-planning-shouldnt-be-limited-to-the-well-to-do/2014/10/16/862f0e0e-5570-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html … via @mathguideMT @OUPAcademic "Mistress, Miss, Mrs or Ms: untangling the shifting history of women’s titles" http://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capital/2014/09/mistress-miss-mrs-or-ms-untangling-shifting-history-women-s-titles … (via @raulpacheco)"The Oldest Living Things in the World" by Rachel Sussman http://www.rachelsussman.com/portfolio/#/oltw/ …et un peu de lecture en français"L’affectation des élèves dans les établissements scolaires" http://www.laviedesidees.fr/L-affectation-des-eleves-dans-les.html …"Que la connexion est triste (photographiée en noir et blanc)" http://imagesociale.fr/395  par @gunthert"En Afrique de l’Ouest, les défenseurs du libre se mobilisent contre Ebola" http://www.makery.info/2014/10/21/en-afrique-de-louest-les-defenseurs-du-libre-se-mobilisent-contre-ebola/ …"Mort du patron de Total : hagiographies médiatiques" http://www.acrimed.org/article4477.html …"Réseaux sociaux, incontournables pour véhiculer les infos" http://fr.canoe.ca/techno/mediassociaux/archives/2014/10/20141017-123413.html … ht @jeanlucr"Le rêve américain en panne" http://www.ledevoir.com/international/etats-unis/421413/le-reve-americain-en-panne … via @fdastous"Ils ont quitté l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche" http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/actualite/ils-qui-ont-quitte-le-monde-de-l-enseignement-et-de-la-recherche.html …"La Tenure Track, épisode II" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/2014/10/20/la-tenure-track-episode-ii/ … pqr @tomroudvia  @Matthieu_HELY Deux points de vue sur les regroupements universitaires dans libé du jour par @yannbisiou et @Gjpvernantau Québec, "Universités: nous ne pouvons rester silencieux" http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/421506/universites-nous-ne-pouvons-rester-silencieux …« Le chêne et le roseau » https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/le-chene-et-le-roseau-la-simulation … (la version scientifique de la fable)"Les limites de Wikipédia" http://authueil.org/?2014/10/19/2271-les-limites-de-wikipedia …"La Tenure Track, épisode II" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/2014/10/20/la-tenure-track-episode-ii/ … pqr @tomroud"Le Nobel et le politique" http://alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/parienty/2014/10/20/le-nobel-et-le-politique/ … point de vue intéressantDid I miss something interesting?