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Links to some nice articles found (recently) on other blogs, or websites, in English"A Big Banker’s Belated Change of Heart" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/a-big-bankers-belated-apology.html?_r=1&#38;partner=rss&#38;emc=rss …"Percent of Income Earned by Top 0.1% of Taxpayers" via embruns's blog and @IanikMarcil http://www.motherjones.com/politics/07/charts-how-americas-billionaires-get-off-tax-rich-congress …"Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia" http://www.plosone.org/article/info…"Flooding, drought, remain immune to politics" http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/-11-00044.1 … via http://arstechnica.com/science/07/ideology-clouds-how-we-perceive-the-temperatures/ …"why equity markets have forgotten their function"http://www.economist.com/node/21559675  via @OsezAna"Did Your Brain Make You Do It?" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/neuroscience-and-moral-responsibility.html?_r=2 …"are you responsible for your behavior if your brain “made you do it”?""Social media is more than simply a marketing tool for academic reseach" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jul/24/social-media-academic-research-tool …"Extreme Weather Affecting Public Views on Climate in U.S." viahttp:// environment.yale.edu/climate/files/Six-Americas-March-2012.pdf …"it must be true because it's a pie" via http://dilbert.com/  thanks to http://srqm.tumblr.com/ "ten-year government bond yields since 1860" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/07/daily-chart-15 …"Rejecting “economists are dumb” does not mean there are no dumb economists" http://www.social-europe.eu/2012/07/rejecting-economists-are-dumb-does-not-mean-there-are-no-dumb-economists/ …on microfoundations http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.fr/2012/microfoundations-would-be-nice-if-we.html … or http://www.slate.com/blogs/money/2012/07/18/why_microfoundations_.html … even http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/mental-accounting-and-the-microfoundations-wars/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&#38;seid=auto … and finallyhttp:// marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/the-value-of-microfoundations.html …"Our broken scholarly publishing system" http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/our-broken-scholarly-publishing-system/ …"A year of anarchy in science" http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/jul/24/year-anarchy-science …"Which Airports Will Give Wings to the Next Pandemic?"http:// web.mit.edu/press/2012/spread-of-disease-in-airports-0723.html …"On Self-Citation" by Hadas Shema http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2012/07/24/on-self-citation/ …"University rankings 'distorting priorities'" http://www.scidev.net/fr/science-and-innovation-policy/university-systems/news/les-classements-des-universit-s-faussent-les-priorit-s-.html …"antique cabinets" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/07/daily-chart-14?fsrc=gn_ep … "how old is your government?""How the Elites Built America’s Economic Wall" http://bloom.bg/OECJ0V  via @IanikMarcil"Investors’ Most Common Behavioral Biases"http://rpseawright.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/investors-10-most-common-behavioral-biases/ …"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibbenhttp://www. rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719 …"an experimental investigation of how disagreement and attention to disagreement affect trading behavior” http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jobhdp/v108y2009i2p230-241.html … "Where there are more guns there is more homicide" http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html …  "The ethics of banking are broken, how they can be fixed?"http:// on.ft.com/MF5TcX  via @IanikMarcil"Why Some Economists Failed" http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/07/17/Bubbles-and-Bailouts-Why-Some-Economists-Failed.aspx#page1 …et en francais,"Couper les banques en deux ? Le débat se durcit" http://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/banques-finance/industrie-financiere/20120726trib000711096/couper-les-banques-en-deux-le-debat-se-durcit.html …"Péripéties financières" http://blog.mondediplo.net/2012-07-23-Peripeties-financieres-Libor-et-taux-d-interet … et "Les taux négatifs annoncent-ils un tsunami financier?" http://www.eric-verhaeghe.fr/les-taux-negatifs-annoncent-ils-un-tsunami-financier/ …Entre boules de pétanque, incertitude et économie... http://ow.ly/cl7RB  par @IanikMarcil sur Henri Poincaré"L’actualité en débat : la grève et l’autonomie des universités" http://histoireengagee.ca/lactualite-en-debat-la-greve-et-lautonomie-des-universites/ …