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Some writings worth reading"How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang" http://alexandreafonso.wordpress.com/2013/ … via @siah and @MarkHahnelWhat you have is an increasing number of brilliant PhD graduates arriving every year into the market hoping to secure a permanent position as a professor and enjoying freedom and high salaries, a bit like the rank-and-file drug dealer hoping to become a drug lord. To achieve that, they are ready to forgo the income and security that they could have in other areas of employment by accepting insecure working conditions in the hope of securing jobs that are not expanding at the same rate. Because of the increasing inflow of potential outsiders ready to accept this kind of working conditions, this allows insiders to outsource a number of their tasks onto them, especially teaching, in a context where there are increasing pressures for research and publishing. The result is that the core is shrinking, the periphery is expanding, and the core is increasingly dependent on the periphery. [to be continued...]"The mover’s advantage: The superior performance of migrant scientists" http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S01651765… via @tylercowen"Fidelity Networks and Long-Run Trends in HIV/AIDS Gender Gaps" http://econ.brown.edu/faculty/serrano/… via http://theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/… and @VisionsCarto"Students: How to email to your Professor, employer, and professional peers" http://chrisblattman.com/… by @cblatts"How Google Sold Its Engineers On Management" http://hbr.org/2013/12/how…"Hair migration..." via http://phdcomics.com seeReal question http://kottke.org/13/11/why… "Why do you wake up before your alarm goes off?" (see also http://mentalfloss.com/article/… ) via @cblatts[history] "How to Impress Girls at a Dance, 1530" http://askthepast.blogspot.ca/2013/… "Furthermore never fart when you are dancing...""A Simple Explanation Of How Money Moves Around The Banking System" http://gendal.wordpress.com/2013/1… by @gendal"Go Elsewhere, Young Scientist" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/go… via @Anne_Lavigne(2013) "The Year The Arctic Disappeared" http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/1…"Homo heuristicus: Why biased minds make better inferences" http://matt.colorado.edu/teaching/highcog/fall11/…"The ethics and the economics of climate change" http://lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publications/WorkingPapers/Papers/80-89/WP84a… (1) and http://lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publications/WorkingPapers/Papers/80-89/WP84b … (2) by N. Stern via @Cyril_Hedoin[free ebook] "Financial Markets and Financial Crises" http://papers.nber.org/books/glen91-1  R. Glenn Hubbard, editor"What's Wrong? The Deregulators" http://pulitzer.org/archives/6687  (in 2002)"Little Red Riding Hood: Study Provides Insights into Origins, Evolution of Folktales" http://sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/… see"The global imperialism of English: impacts on science and knowledge" http://researchfrontier.wordpress.com/2013/1… by @shell_ki via @SciencesharenewLet’s be honest, life is easier as a native English speaker. This is certainly true in science and academia, and it only really dawns on you when you work with non-native English users. Then, you get a glimpse into the extra obstacles they have to overcome, and you are suddenly very, very grateful that you are not expected to do the same in a foreign language. Learning to read and write in an academic discipline is hard enough in your own language, how about doing it in another language as well? [to be continued...]"Between arbitrage and speculation: an economy of belief and doubt" http://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…"Mathematics and Finance: An Ethical Malaise" http://link.springer.com/article/1… (classical reference by Marc Rogalski) and "Response to Rogalski" http://link.springer.com/article/1… by Ivar Ekeland"Ethics and quantitative finance" http://equella.rcs.griffith.edu.au/research/file/7…"Foundations of Technical Analysis:Computational Algorithms, Statistical Inference, and Empirical Implementation" http://web.mit.edu/alo/…"Bourbaki’s destructive influence on the mathematization of economics" http://assru.economia.unitn.it/files/…"Attacks on mainstream economics and reforming economics teaching" http://mainlymacro.blogspot.ru/2013/… via @econoclaste @OsezAna and @moorehn"... economics education may have serious, albeit unintended consequences on our students' attitudes toward greed." http://amle.aom.org/content/…"Thirteen lines of code...." http://www.milanor.net/blog/?p=1054  to generate the following graphand another R code, "Mapping Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) Track" http://alstatr.blogspot.ca/2013/11/… see"Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?" http://jstor.org/discover/10.2307/21…Adapting to Climate Change The Remarkable Decline in the US Temperature- Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century http://econ.ucsb.edu/~olivier/w18 …"Kilkenomics’s founder, the Irish economist David McWilliams, calls it 'bringing economics to the people' " http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/… via @ArturoBujanda, see http://www.kilkenomics.com/  for more details..."The overselling of behavioral economics" http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/… via @A_Lusardi"29 Dumb Things Finance People Say" http://businessinsider.com/29- … via @khakieconomist"Top 20 things politicians need to know about science" http://theguardian.com/science/2013/… and "Policy: Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims" http://nature.com/news/policy…"Data on Americans' Diet Can Be Hard to Digest" http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB… "Surveys of what people eat are based on only two days of the year""Geeks for Monarchy" http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/ … "The Rise of the Neoreactionaries" by @klintron via @stoyan_523"The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2013 is…" http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/… via @gunthert"The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath" http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/… via @PhilippBayer"The Surprising History of the Lobotomy" http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/… by @Mtartakovsky[Anarchy] via @Raveline and @Anne_Lavigneet comme régulièrement, un peu de lecture en français (nettement plus que ces dernières semaines)"Offre de formation à l'université : peut-on concilier lisibilité et concurrence ?" http://legizmoblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/… par @Anne_Lavigne"Tout le monde a en effet encore en tête le scandale de cette affreuse histoire d’étudiants morts congelés dans un amphithéâtre pendant un partiel de l’année 2014-5, faute d’avoir pu payer le chauffage, et qui nous avait valu l’inimitable titre de Libération : « un sujet en (pole) nord »" http://histoiresalunettes.wordpress.com/… via @coulmontJe découvre avec la retard "la courbe de Laffer du nombre de libéraux en France" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/2013 … très jolie théorie d'@adelaigue[ebook classic] "Calcul des chances et philosophie de la bourse" https://archive.org/download/calculdeschances00regn/… Jules Regnault, en 1863je m'en doutais ! http://legorafi.fr/2013/11/25/un-historien… "... les choux de Bruxelles avaient parfois été utilisés comme instrument de torture au Moyen-âge""J'ai toujours été le dernier en maths" http://slate.fr/story/80307/… ("comment pouvaient-ils être autant de derniers ?") par @louisetourret"attention à la médiatisation des souffrances" https://www.google.ca/url? … par l'excellent Nicolas Treich (paywall sur http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/… )En France, Christiane Taubira, "le souverainisme xénophobe nourri au racisme colonial et le mondialisme néolibéral" http://ldh-france.org/region/aquitaine/ …"Propriété numérique et génération insupportable" http://affordance.typepad.com//mon_weblog/… par @affordanceinfo"L’homme qui n’en savait rien" http://observatoire-des-sondages.org/L…"Les légèretés de Gravity" http://scilogs.fr/prospective-spatiale/… via @goulu"Faut-il éteindre la lumière quand on quitte une pièce ?" http://editerna.free.fr/wp/?p=103  par @3wenDid I miss something?