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A nice post (found a couple of days ago) on an insteresting topic, I should perhaps discuss more often on this blog"Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation?" http://www.slate.com/arti…Also, this week, a series of posts and articles about L'Aquila trial,"L'Aquila's earthquake-scarred streets see battle between science and politics" http://www.guardian.co.uk/w/27/laquila-earthquake-battle-science-politics?CMP=twt_fd …"L’Aquila: earthquake, verdict, and statistics"http:// xianblog.wordpress.com/20uila-earthquake-verdict-and-statistics/ …"Complexity and the madness of crowds – lessons from disaster prevention" on @rszbt's bloghttp:// reszatonline.wordpress.com/20plexity-and-the-madness-of-crowds-lessons-from-disaster-prevention/ …"Trial Over Earthquake in Italy Puts Focus on Probability" http://www.nytimes.com/science/04quake.html?_r=1&#38; … via @statfr"Italian court ruling sends chill through science community" http://www.reuters.com/a10/22/us-science-manslaughter-italy-idUSBRE89L1IC20121022?feedType=RSS&#38;feedName=scienceNews&#38;utm_source=dlvr.it&#38;utm_medium=twitter&#38;dlvrit=309301 …"Verdict of l’Aquila Earthquake Trial Sends the Wrong Message" about how to deal with hazard assessment andmitigation http://www.wired.com/wir…"Scientists on trial: At fault?" http://www.nature.com/110914/pdf/477264a.pdf … (a detailed article)"Italian scientists convicted of manslaughter" http://arstechnica.com/s0/italian-scientists-convicted-of-manslaughter-for-earthquake-risk-report/ … "No finding of elevated risk in a report days before a fatal earthquake"Still, a lot of very interesting posts found here, and there,"The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions” by Natalia Zinovyeva and Manuel Bagues http://ftp.iza.org/dp6821.pdf"The Student Debt Crisis" http://www.americanprogress.org/isseducation/report/2012/10/25/42905/the-student-debt-crisis/…"Integrals don’t have anything to do within discrete math, do they?"http:// mathdl.maa.org/im…[free ebook] "Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple" by Allen B. Downey http://www.greenteapress.com/th…"Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, pens a disturbing new memoir on mathematics—and survival" http://www.tabletmag.com/jewd-culture/books/114766/a-math-genius-sad-calculus?all=1 …"Milliseconds matter" http://www.washingtonpost.com/bumy/milliseconds-matter/2012/10/25/bedf8210-1ef9-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_graphic.html … "pricing strategies and decision-making process involved in HF trading" "The Virtues and Vices of Election Prediction Markets" http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2-23-the-virtues-and-vices-of-election-prediction-markets/ … by @fivethirtyeight via http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2… on nerds"Communication about science doesn’t need to be time-consuming or distracting from research ..." http://blogs.nature.com/soapbox/2012/10/24/an-elevator-pitch-for-a-research-project?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureBlogs&#38;buffer_share=35adc …"21 Reasons Why You Should Never Date An Economist" http://inesad.edu.bo/dev… see alsohttp://www. economistsdoitwithmodels.com/20t-for-fun-reasons-not-to-date-an-economist-thanks-guys/?utm_source=feedburner&#38;utm_medium=feed&#38;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economistsdoitwithmodels+%28Economists+Do+It+With+Models%29 … via @adelaigue"Fun with tax: How taxation by government has changed" http://www.economist.com/bloetail/2012/10/daily-chart-12 …nice application http://www.visualthesaurus.com/app/view  for those who like words, and graphs"Frankenstein Economics is killing capitalism"http://www. marketwatch.com/Stoint?guid=9E40EEA0-1C55-11E2-B624-002128040CF6 …"Asset Pricing with Garbage" in the Journal of Finance, last year http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do.1540-6261.2010.01629.x/abstract …"The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets"http://www. bis.gov.uk/fore…"Auction Theory: A Guide to the Literature" by Paul Klemperer http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/us…"Ethics and Finance: The Role of Mathematics" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.ca/20-and-finance-role-of-mathematics.html…"How to find a perfect match for a Nobel"http:// timharford.com/how-to-find-a-perfect-match-for-a-nobel/ … by @timharford via @nereidadin"Who owns research data and the rights to publish it?" http://emckiernan.wordpress.com/who-owns-research-data-and-the-rights-to-publish-it/ … via @mathewi see also an article on databases property regulated by EU La w http://ec.europa.eu/intt/copyright/prot-databases/index_en.htm …"We’re probably at the death of education" http://thenextweb.com/ins… via @IanikMarcil"Can humans cause an earthquake?" http://arstechnica.com/scie0/can-humans-cause-an-earthquake/ … see also http://www.nature.com/ngaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1610.html …"Algorithms, Arbitrage, and Overreaction on Intrade"http:// rajivsethi.blogspot.ca/algorithms-arbitrage-and-overreaction.html …"Did the financial blogosphere go away?" http://blogs.reuters.com/feli012/10/23/did-the-financial-blogosphere-go-away/ … by @felixsalmon via @stanjourdan "an XKCD-esque chart" with #rstats http://drunks-and-lampposts.com/clegg-vs-pleb-an-xkcd-esque-chart/ … answer to http://stackoverflow.com/12675147/xkcd-style-graphs-in-r … 's challenge"And the winner for longest time on record between publication and retraction is…" http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/and-the-winner-for-longest-time-on-record-between-publication-and-retraction-is/ … via@NGhoussoub"Location, Location, Location" by Alexandra M. Lord http://chronicle.com/Location-Location-Location/134264/ … via @tomroud"How ProPublica’s Message Machine Reverse Engineers Political Microtargeting" http://www.propublica.org/ne… via @propublica and http://www.propublica.org/are-machine-starts-providing-answers …If you're working in Academia “it’s your duty to be miserable” http://chronicle.com/Its-Your-Duty-to-Be/135014/ … by @Pannapacker via @NGhoussoub@m_m_campbellForthcoming actuarial projects on life tables "Average life span for Dwarves, Hobbits and Men" http://lotrproject.com/stfeexpectancy …"Scientific research bodies 'failing to engage public'"http://www. scidev.net/fr/scmunication/news/les-organismes-de-recherche-scientifique-trop-peu-engag-s-avec-le-public-.html … via @collectifpapera"Is it meaningful to talk about a probability of “65.7%” that Obama will win the election?" http://andrewgelman.com/is-it-meaningful-to-talk-about-a-probability-of-65-7-that-obama-will-win-the-election/ …"Why It is Essential That Criminal Bankers are Prosecuted"http://www. nakedcapitalism.com/why-it-is-essential-that-criminal-bankers-are-prosecuted.html … via @michellaurence"Perhaps the whole ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ school of portfolio allocation is financial wisdom enough" http://timharford.com/when-simplicity-is-a-real-asset/ …damned, even the New York Times knows: "You Don’t Work as Hard as You Say You Do" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/you-dont-work-as-hard-as-you-say-you-do/ …Also several documentaries, found, online[video doc] "Money as Debt" directed by Paul Grignon http://youtu.be/e6LWqgohO4E  http://youtu.be/lsmbWBpnCNk http:// and youtu.be/f6uuAupT4AQ    via http://www.economicreason.com/d..se/top-15-economic-documentaries/  [video doc] "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World" by Niall Ferguson http://youtu.be/4Xx_5PuLIzc  via http://www.economicnoise.com/the-top-18-economic-documentaries/ …[video doc] "97% Owned" http://youtu.be/XcGh1Dex4Yo  via http://www.economicnoise.com/the-top-18-economic-documentaries/ … and @clasicaliberal[video doc] "Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis"http:// youtu.be/4ECi6WJpbzE  via http://www.economicnoise.com/the-top-18-economic-documentaries/ …and @clasicaliberalEt comme toujours, quelques articles en francais,Le Krach de 1929, discuté 15 jours plus tard dans le Journal des Finances http://gallica.bnf.fr/bpt6k5552712t.image … via @GallicaBnF"Économistes à gages et médias complaisants" par Renaud Lambert http://www.acrimed.org/html … (suite du livre de @LaurentMauduit)"Ce que le blog apporte à la recherche" par Antoine Blanchard (a.k.a. @Enroweb) http://press.openedition.org/172 Did I miss something ?                                 Follow @freakonometrics