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Some writings worth reading, here and there"The Rising Challenge of Measuring and Managing Longevity Risk" http://institutionalinvestor.com/3373646/… by @FrancesDenmark"How to Be Polite" https://medium.com/message/…"Twitter, Big Data, and Jobs Numbers" http://lsa.umich.edu/vgn-ext-templating…"Time Slice" http://thisiscolossal.com/2014/08/… "Iconic Buildings and Monuments Photographed Over Time by Richard Silver""Learning about Rare Disasters: Implications for Consumption and AssetPrices" http://cerge-ei.cz/pdf/… ht @MargRev"Reconceptualising risk in research: The call to do no harm goes far beyond the field." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/… by @amierasawas"How Microsoft’s predictive modeling could make streaming gaming tolerable" http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/… by @kyleorlon @Wonkblog "Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…The Philosophy of Data Science (series) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/… “Big data should complement small data, not replace them”"'Robo Brain' will teach robots everything from the Internet" http://phys.org/news/…MT @ALarigaudrieBFM "Via @bespokeinvest chart showing timeline of people with fitbit woke up from Napa Earthquake"Doing it in public" http://historyonics.blogspot.fr/2014… by @TimHitchcock ht @mXli1 (bis repetita)Deaths from police shootings (latest available year) http://economist.com/news/united-states/…"pharmaceutical companies conduct 30 times more clinical trials for recurrent cancer drugs than for preventive drugs" http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/…"Twitter and blogs are not add-ons to academic research, but a simple reflection of the passion that underpins it" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"Which Cities Get the Most Sleep?" http://graphics.wsj.com/how-we-sleep/ "University research: if you believe in openness, stand up for it" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/…"Dealing With Digital Cruelty" http://nytimes.com/2014/08/…"Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race" http://city-journal.org/2010/…"Stop Obsessing About Global Warming" http://newrepublic.com/118969/… "Environmentalists are ignoring poor countries' needs" by Amartya Sen"The Battle Of The Sexes, Reduced To Pictograms" http://fastcodesign.com/3034703/…"Here's What $100 Is Worth In Each State" http://taxfoundation.org/blog/…"Regulating Infinity" http://overcomingbias.com/2014/…"Seven of Italy’s top scientists were convicted of manslaughter after a catastrophic earthquake, in L’Aquila?" https://medium.com/matter…"Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets" http://nber.org/w12312 et un peu de lecture en français,"La discorde entre les Grandes écoles et les universités prend de l’ampleur" http://lenouveleconomiste.fr/d …"L'ANR recale 80% des projets scientifiques" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/… par @HuetSylvestre"La gastronomie québécoise toujours victime de ses clichés" http://journalmetro.com/plus/bouffe/…Peut-on défendre le logiciel libre sans savoir vraiment écrire une ligne de code ? http://creative.arte.tv/fr/"Inondations en Bosnie-Herzégovine : l’État aux abonnés absents" http://balkans.courriers.info/…"OpenStreetMap détaille le monde depuis dix ans" http://data.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/…Did I miss something interesting?