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Some posts and articles worth reading, here and there"A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days – a sobering lesson learned" http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/a-veteran-teacher-turned-coach-shadows-2-students-for-2-days-a-sobering-lesson-learned/ … ht @lauramclay"Professors are supposed to be stressed! That’s the job" http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/oct/24/bullying-academia-universities-stress-support …now I can sleep peacefully http://www.wired.com/2014/10/internet-sleeps-night-really … "The Internet Sleeps at Night. Really""Google makes us all dumber: The neuroscience of search engines" http://www.salon.com/2014/10/12/google_makes_us_all_dumber_the_neuroscience_of_search_engines/ …"How men dominate online commenting" http://qz.com/259149/how-men-dominate-online-commenting/ …"The Best Day to Buy Airline Tickets" http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-best-day-to-buy-airline-tickets-1413999377 … (see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/1980 , in French)"Information in Financial Markets: Who Gets It First?" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2437733 …"Opportunities And Challenges For Open Data And Code: Facilitating Reproducibility" https://illinois.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Dr.+Victoria+StoddenA+%E2%80%9COpportunities+and+Challenges+for+Open+Data+and+CodeA+Facilitating+Reproducibility%E2%80%9D/0_gpph158c/10797661 …"Smart people listen to Radiohead [or Sufjan Stevens] and dumb people listen to Beyoncé" http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/10/smart-people-listen-to-radiohead-and-dumb-people-listen-to-beyonce-according-to-new-study/ …"Statistics Is More Than a Numbers Game – It Underpins All Sciences" http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/788791-statistics-is-more-than-a-numbers-game-it-underpins-all-sciences/ … ht @TrustMestat"Why language is neither an instinct nor innate" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429911.000-why-language-is-neither-an-instinct-nor-innate.html?page=1#.VEl8voUidO2 …"Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe" http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2014/2014-001.pdf …"How to Identify Gender in Datasets at Large Scales, Ethically and Responsibly" https://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/how-to-identify-gender-in-datasets-at-large-scales-ethically-and-responsibly … by @natematias"Persuasion with statistics" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/10/persuasion-with-statistics.html …"Chess piece survival rates" http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-chances-of-survival-of-individual-chess-pieces-in-average-games … via http://priorprobability.com/2014/10/22/chess-piece-survival-rates/ …"Dear Mona, Which Is The Fastest Check-Out Lane At The Grocery Store?" http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/express-lane-grocery-store-fastest-queue/ … by @MonaChalabi"Leveraging scientific credibility about Arctic sea ice trends in a polarized political environment" http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_4/13598.abstract …Walking Dead-inspired Halloween decorations (via @9gag)"Increased variability of tornado occurrence in the United States" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6207/349.abstract …Just an average guy ("the" average guy, actually) http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/this-is-the-average-mans-body/280194/ …"Do people know where their chicken comes from?" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29219843 …greek ruins (via http://www.businessinsider.com/david-einhorn-robin-hood-presentation-2014-10?op=1 …)"Keeping a gigantic database of road maps current is vastly difficult" http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/google_self_driving_car_it_may_never_actually_happen.single.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#38;utm_medium=twitter … via @timharford and @econoclaste"Forecasting Is Risky, Especially About the Future" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-21/forecasting-is-risky-especially-about-the-future … by @noahpinion"When It Comes to Data, Skepticism Matters" http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/when-it-comes-to-data-skepticism-matters/?utm_source=Socialflow&#38;utm_medium=Tweet&#38;utm_campaign=Socialflow … by @thedatadoc1"Why the Stock Market Rally Is Bad News" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-22/why-the-stock-market-rally-is-bad-news.html?hootPostID=b6e17eb4f55eecc6c07acf573cb69ec0 … by @BStevermanet un peu de lecture en français"Google Car, voiture sans conducteur : qui est responsable en cas d'accident ?" http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20141017trib556a9c863/voitures-sans-conducteurs-quelle-reglementation.html …"Les élues sont-elles plus honnêtes que les élus?" http://www.slate.fr/story/93771/femmes-politiques-plus-honnetes … par @audelorriaux"La fonction des banques" http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0203880995885-la-fonction-des-banques-1056670.php?xtor=RSS-38 … ht @PierreAGERON"Et si le prix du tabac était fixé en fonction de son coût pour la collectivité ?" http://mobile.lemonde.fr/addictions/article/2014/10/21/et-si-le-prix-du-tabac-etait-fixe-en-fonction-de-son-cout-pour-la-collectivite_4510109_1655173.html … par @LClavreul ht @ssaussierEn France, "les anglicismes envahissent la pub et l'entreprise ! What else ?" http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/tendances/les-anglicismes-envahissent-la-pub-et-lentreprise-what-else-196569 …"Le numérique nous fait-il perdre la mémoire ?" https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/le-numerique-nous-fait-il-perdre-la-memoire …"L’Education nationale méprise-t-elle ses chercheurs ?" http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2014/10/22/l-education-nationale-meprise-t-elle-ses-chercheurs_1127256 … (qui enseignent dans le secondaire, ici) via @Uneheuredepeine"Résistance aux antibiotiques" http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/892200/resistance-aux-antibiotiques-6-infographies-pour-comprendre-une-menace-globale.html … via @jallatte"Parlez-vous « stress test » ?" http://www.lesechos.fr/journal20141024/lec2_finance_et_marches/0203883579015-parlez-vous-stress-test-1057011.php#xtor=CS1-26 … par @EdouardLedereroccupation pour le week-end http://info.arte.tv/fr/clone-capitalisme-clone … se mettre à jour avant la fin de la série documentaire "Capitalisme" par @ARTEfrRappel pour le changement d'heure (via @innocent_Fr)Did I miss something interesting?