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Long time no see. Here are some very interesting posts, discovered this week, somewhere else on the internet,"Good biology can be done without maths" or "no good biology can be done with maths" ? http://online.wsj.com/… via econFR and tomroud"How Beer Gave Us Civilization" http://nytimes.com/opinion/sunday/… via phnk"How to have the perfect day: Have sex for 106 minutes" http://qz.com/69989/… based on http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/… via A_DS et http://lemonde.fr/vous/…and as usual, a lot of other interesting posts, articles, even pictures, found here and there"Does anyone give money to charity efficiently?" http://slatestarcodex.com/… via MatingMind an MargRev"Climate science: A sensitive matter" http://economist.com/science-technology/… via GorgeGdo"The rebirth of proof in school mathematics in the United States?" http://lettredelapreuve.it/… (in 2000, a bit old)"Your Reputation Will Be the Currency of the Future" http://scientificamerican.com/ from mgorbis's book via BoraZ"Turbulence Ahead!" http://ibtimes.com/turbulence… "Climate Change To Cause Bumpier Flights, Longer Trips" via http://slate.fr/lien/…"A world without macroeconomists?" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/… by Noahpinion"Penis size interacts with body shape and height to influence male attractiveness" http://pnas.org/1219361110 …"The Secrets of Princeton" http://nytimes.com/… "to perpetuate the existing upper class" in the U.S., by DouthatNYT via olivierbusquet"How Bayes' Rule can make you a better thinker" http://io9.com/how … via davidwees"Facebook Homeis a trojan horse designed to steal the Android experience" http://appleoutsider.com/… via ritholtz"How many Americans will be denied essential health care in the name of freedom?" http://nytimes.com/…"Margaret Thatcher dies following a strike" (RT martin_u, via IanikMarcil fdaudens)"Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms" http://salon.com/… and other ambiguities in plain language http://cut-the-knot.org/language/…"Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)" http://nytimes.com/… via katypearce"The Hidden Biases in Big Data" http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/… by katecrawfordinteresting http://usnews.com/science/articles/… "Recommendation Letters May Be Costing Women Jobs" via http://wgst303.wordpress.com/… and http://themonkeycage.org/2010/11/…"How Did Intellectual Property Become a Free Trade Issue?" http://themonkeycage.org/ …"In our digital world you don't own stuff, you just license it" http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via msgbi and TeraEuro"Diet water" ? http://.diet-blog.com/diet_water I thought it was a joke..."Early career research: the power of 'no'" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…"In Sign of Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Andes Melted in 25 Years" http://nytimes.com/… via timoreilly"Map Shows Vast Regions of Ocean Are Warmer" (over a century) http://scientificamerican.com… via MyScienceWork see"Could Neuroscience Exonerate Showtime Serial Killer Dexter Morgan?" http://slate.com/blogs/future_tense/…"When share and house prices collapse, what happens to the trillions of dollars of wealth that disappear?" http://econ.st/Y62OZe"the use of artificial intelligence technology to grade essay answers has not yet received widespread endorsement" http://nytimes.com/…(interesting) skeptical article on "brain-training" games http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/… following http://nytimes.com/… via StuartJRitchie"Worry about correctness and repeatability, not p-values" http://win-vector.com/blog/… by WinVectorLLC"Turning out millions of doctorates" http://universityworldnews.com/article… via ‏curtrice"When do we call it a solvency crisis?" http://mpettis.com/2013/03/21/when-do-we-call-it-a-solvency-crisis/ … via adelaigue"Getting a (literature) Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor" http://slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/… via tanyagolashboza"What Are We Weighting For?" http://nber.org/papers/w18859  on potential motives for weighting in statistical estimation, via cblatts"Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks" http://nytimes.com/…2012, total hospital and physician cost (appendectomy) via Hgibier RT ritholtz here"Can insurance companies help small customers in developing countries bounce back from environmental catastrophes?" http://theglobalist.com/…"The 10 biggest science-reporting mistakes" http://poynter.org/latest-news/… via BoraZlive in 16 Sq. Ft in Tokyo http://.treehugger.com/interior-design/… vs. a palace of 78 Sq. Ft in Manhattan http://treehugger.com/green-architecture/… (but he works there too)"Some ideas on communicating risks to the general public" http://decisionsciencenews.com/…"How much gold is there in the world?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/… (or, in French http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2232  for a similar story with 117,973 tonnes)PlayDoh 3D Printer http://thinkgeek.com/product/… hereEt comme souvent, plusieurs articles et billet en français, le premier qui a été mis en ligne alors que je tentais de tenir 4 jours sans ordinateur (et sans internet)"Mon cerveau d’avant Internet me manque de plus en plus" http://rue89.com/… par monacholletmais il y avait beaucoup d'autres choses intéressantes cette semaine !"En question : la grammaire typographique" http://listetypo.free.fr/meron/new/Gramtypo.pdf … découvert via http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_d%27ironie … et RLesur“Les médias sociaux à l’heure des identités numériques : quels enjeux pour la recherche scientifique ?” http://act.hypotheses.org/3217"8% des gens qui ont acheté le prix Goncourt… l’ont lu" http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/actualites/… via BibliObs et ElleAimeLire[fable] "Les journaux malades de la sieste" http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/…"Accès au savoir scientifique: un enjeu central pour la santé de notre démocratie" http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/… via MyScienceWork"Scientificité des mathématiques" http://david.monniaux.free.fr/ … par dmonniaux"Comment réaliser une carte (de France) interactive avec R" par 3wen sur http://editerna.free.fr/blog/Carte-R-interactive le résultat est sur http://editerna.free.fr/blog/cartes/carte_france génial !"Une découverte mathématique historique" par nb58 http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/ … et les poissons d'avril, http://obamaths.blogspot.ca/… via J_P_BoucherDid I miss something ?