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Some writings worth reading,+1 "New French Book Will Become Important When It's In English" on @tylercowen's "will become important" http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ …"Tyler Cowen says today that "The forthcoming Thomas Piketty book will be very important" That "will be" is sort of interesting. You see, the name of the book is Le capital au xxie siècle, and it was published three months ago. But no one is talking about it. Presumably, it will become very important—and very talked about—only next March, when Capital in the 21st Century hits the shelves. I don't have any grand point to make. It's just interesting that fluent French is now so rarely spoken among American academics that an important French book can't even get the time of day until its English translation comes out. It makes sense that widespread conversation would have to wait, since you can't very well have that until lots of people have read the book, but you'd think there would be at least a few reviews out there along with a bit of discussion. But if there has been, I've missed it.""How one publisher is stopping academics from sharing their research" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/ … by @kansasalps"Elsevier steps up its War On Access" http://svpow.com/2013/12/17/elsevier … via @RemiMathis and @gunthert"Three Nobel Lectures, and the Rhetoric of Finance" http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.ca/2013/12…"Regularization Algorithms for Learning Large Incomplete Matrices" http://stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/maz…"banks are still far too big (…) so big that they have the potential to drag entire countries to the brink of ruin" http://eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/…"One problem has been addressed neither by Europe nor by the US, the Christian-conservative daily Salzburger Nachrichten writes: "Many banks are still far too big. And no one can explain why they have to be so big that they have the potential to drag entire countries to the brink of ruin - or even plunge them into the abyss. Their representatives say that international customers want to be advised globally by one partner, hence size is essential. No one questions this, everyone just accepts it. That's why even in the sixth year after the financial crisis the spectre of 'too big to fail' is still haunting us. If we could put a stop to this, we would have learned one of the most important lessons from the financial crisis: no bank should be so big that it cannot fail. No financial regulator dares take up this challenge, however, so the newly avowed security is just a chimera." (19/12/2013)" [via http://salzburg.com/nachrichten/...]"When it comes to statistical modeling, we’re living in beta-test world" http://andrewgelman.com/2013/…"Americans Have Little Faith In Scientists, Science Journalists" http://huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/… by @EL_SwanWhat Do Americans Believe In?" http://zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21… see[read online] "Software Takes Command" http://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/… by @manovichon http://niemanlab.org/2013/ … The blog is dead, long live the blog http://kottke.org/13/12/… via @nghoussoub "blogs are for 40 somethings with kids""Having daughters makes you more liberal. No, it makes you more conservative. No, it . . . ??" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/… via @cblatts"Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival" http://nytimes.com/2013/12/20… see"The Algorithms of Our Lives" http://chronicle.com/article/The… by @manovich via @guteliusawesome! http://buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/how… "How The Media Will Report The Apocalypse" via @kansasalps"Is finance guided by good science or convincing magic?" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.co.uk/… another great post by @TCJUK"Freshwater and Saltwater Economists: A Creation Story" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.in/2013… (inspired from http://stanford.edu/~rehall/… )"Science Journalism and Not Science Journalism and Naming Names" http://itsokaytobesmart.com/… by @jtotheizzoe, following https://youtu.be/LHew7MqP4UM "Measuring Financial Literacy" http://oecd-ilibrary.org/finance-and-investment/… and "Economic Culture and Economic Performance" http://capitalism.columbia.edu/…"Google’s Location History Browser Is A Minute-By-Minute Map Of Your Life" http://techcrunch.com/2013/… see also https://maps.google.com/…"Economics journals stopped being a way to communicate ideas at least 25 years ago,..." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/…"Obviously the web has changed a lot, although the process actually started even before the rise of blogs. Economics journals stopped being a way to communicate ideas at least 25 years ago, replaced by working papers; publication was more about certification for the purposes of tenure than anything else. Partly this was because of the long lags — by the time my most successful (though by no means best) academic paper was actually published, in 1991, there were around 150 derivative papers that I knew of, and the target zone literature was running into diminishing returns. Partly, also, it was because in some fields rigid ideologies blocked new ideas."[Xmas] "Strange Nativities" http://bmj.com/content/… "Like a virgin (mother), analysis of data from a longitudinal sample survey""The Inversion of Morals in Markets" http://irle.berkeley.edu/culture/… "Death, Benefits, and the Exchange of Life Insurance Policies""Replication backlash" http://andrewgelman.com/2013/12/17/ … (via @statisticsblog ) following http://nature.com/news/reproducibility…"Ethnicity Map of American Voters per Address" http://censusviewer.com/2013/12… via @VisionsCarto"People Who Don't Drink Alcohol Are More Likely To Die Young" http://mnn.com/food/beverages… (poke @econoclaste)"Critical Regard to the History of Econometrics" chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/… via @DEAGiles"Mathematical citation quotient of probability journals" by Djalil http://djalil.chafai.net/blog/2013/…"Clever Google Maps Manipulations by Christoph Niemann" http://abduzeedo.com/clever-google… via @visionscarto e.g."A summary of the evidence that most published research is false" http://simplystatistics.org/2013/…"38 Test Answers That Are 100% Wrong But Totally Genius At The Same Time" http://distractify.com/fun/fails/… e.g.avec un peu de lecture en français,"Scientifiques: est-il raisonnable de rester en France." http://lesechos.fr/opinions/points_vue/… par @augustinlandier et @dthesmar"Symbole mais aussi probable bouc-émissaire d’un système financier devenu fou..." http://data.over-blog-kiwi.com/0/24/… via @VisionsCarto"La science est la croyance en l’ignorance des experts" http://drgoulu.com/2013/… par @gouluun paragraphe 'étonnant' dans http://lemonde.fr/societe/… "si jamais l'enseignant n'atteignait pas (...) les objectifs de la recherche, il devra alors rendre les heures""La culture financière des Français" http://credoc.fr/pdf/…‎ (via @Uneheuredepeine ), seeet la pensée de la semaine passée, par ‏@LANDEYvves "Beaucoup de nos hommes politiques devraient prendre exemple sur Nelson Mandela. En mourant."Did I miss something?