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A lot of interesting posts and articles, this week, here and there“How game theory will stop Iranian nukes” by Ariel Rubinstein http://haaretz.com/weekend/… via margrev[R] "A Brief Tour of the Trees and Forests" http://statistical-research.com/… via rbloggers and paulblaser(in 2006), "U.S. universities raise tuition, and applicants follow" http://nytimes.com/…"How to destroy the internet" http://gizmodo.com/… via LordKrlhz“ justinwolfers and BetseyStevenson's must-read column about the Reinhart-Rogoff debate” http://bloomberg.com/...‏"Colleges should be expected to share the data needed to model their contribution to earnings by major &#38; school" via mileskimball http://online.wsj.com/...[R] plotKML (http://plotkml.r-forge.r-project.org/ ) R codes are https://code.google.com/…"Yes, money really can buy happiness" http://washingtonpost.com/… by dylanmatt"Banks Have Become Too Big To Fail Again. Uh-Oh" http://slate.com/…StatModeling's blogroll andrewgelman.com/blogroll…[R] "R in insurance" https://gist.github.com/… July15th, Cass Business School, programme is outSunday morning, http://bookshelfporn.com/  books, just books,"Japanese Whisky" http://online.wsj.com/… "The finest single malt in the world is no longer from Scotland" via econoclaste Indeed"Economic Blockade and WikiLeaks: Iceland and Beyond" http://scoop.co.nz/stories/… via GreeGreece"Using Latex in Gmail" with http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html  nice ! via http://mathandmultimedia.com/…"Unit roots and mean reversion in U.S. GDP per capita" http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/… on delong's blog"Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience" http://nature.com/nrn/…"The world’s population by latitude and longitude" http://geekosystem.com/… via sferik"George and his dragons" http://guardian.co.uk/… via http://politbistro.hypotheses.org/1619  and politbistro"How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers" http://nytimes.com/… via antonioregalado"Can Science Lead to Faith?" http://newyorker.com/ by GaryMarcus via tilbegoksun"The Economy Has Nothing To Do With The Stock Markets, Right?" http://Forbes.com/… by JerryLeeBowyer via Economy24x7“Let’s not talk about the plumbing, the nuts and bolts — that’s for plumbers, for statisticians” http://nyti.ms/12MROVu  via ‏leonidkruglyak"For the first time ever" http://owen.org/blog/6727 … via adelaigue"How career practices in academia discourage openness" https://news.ycombinator.com/....  via gvwilson and kaythaney"What Has Mattered to Economics since 1970" http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/ehkim/… (in 2006) via techstepper"What happened when MPs took a maths exam?" http://bbc.co.uk/…"Why American Students Are Trailing in Computer Science" http://huffingtonpost.com/…"When Will Don Draper Die?" http://vulture.com/… "We asked an actuary....""Climate Change: The Moral Choices" http://technologyreview.com/review/…On "global climate change, extreme weather, and national security" http://environment.harvard.edu/…"Open access: four ways it could enhance academic freedom" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/apr/22/open-access-academic-freedom-publishing … via RainerGrossmann"12th graders had no more familiarity with economics in 2012 than they did in 2006" http://live.wsj.com/video/… via DEAGiles"Mark Henderson on science writing: 'Be open about what you think'" http://guardian.co.uk/science/…"Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Game Theory Exam" http://popsci.com/science/… via cblatts"Is the ‘new’ development economics just the ‘old’ development economics redux?" http://chrisblattman.com/…"What Is A Terrorist?" http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/…"The Debt To Pleasure" http://economist.com/news/… "A Nobel prizewinner argues for an overhaul of the theory of consumer choice""An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists" http://plosbiology.org/… via lgatt0 and Write4Research"it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right" http://niemanlab.org/… via M_C_B"Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer" http://nytimes.com/…"More tweets, more votes: social media as a quantitative indicator of political behavior" http://papers.ssrn.com/… via http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/…"The (Long Term) Cost of Terror" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy… via ‏@TweetEcon"Jane Austen Responds: Game Theory? Sir, You Flatter Me" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/… via kdnuggets[super geek] "Data Science of the Facebook World" http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/… via EricScherer"What’s the Mathematically Optimum Jury Size? Is it 12, Six, or One?" http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/… via NGhoussoub"Screening tests and invasive medical procedures" http://punkrockor.wordpress.com/… on lauramclay's blog"A hidden world, growing beyond control" http://projects.washingtonpost.com/…correlation, and cause,avec comme toutes les semaines, quelques billets et articles en françaisLes amateurs de calculs feront les maths, "Enveloppe globale des rémunérations variables, BNP Paribas, 559 millions d'euros que se sont partagés 3252 salariés" http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/entreprise/…"Et si on aidait nos étudiants à maîtriser leur e-réputation ?" http://blog.educpros.fr/… by CaroCMuB"Le tour du monde en… 20 épiceries!" http://bouchepleine.com/…"L'esprit humain est-il bayésien ?" http://insee.fr/fr/…"Le bonh et une chose trop sérieuse pour être laissée aux sondeurs et à ces classements internationaux..." http://rue89.com/…"Favoriser le transfert de la recherche publique" http://rachelgliese.wordpress.com/…"L’assurance à prix cassés" http://frogonomics.wordpress.com/… par Bernard Salanié via FrogonomicsBlogDid I miss something ?