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Some news from the earthquake that occurred last night in Montréal"seismic event: magnitude 4.5 - 10 Oct 0:19 edt, Longueil, QC region" http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/...  versus "M3.9 - 9km NNW of Beloeil, Canada, 2012-10-10 04:19:28 UTC" http://earthquake.usgs.gov/… with priceless damage in my backyard, see also "seismic waves" via xkcd.com/723/and other interesting posts and articles found here, or there,"Coping with deep climate uncertainty" by David Woganhttp:// blogs.scientificamerican.com/2/10/09/coping-with-deep-climate-uncertainty/ … on @sciam's blog"How Much Trust Should We Have in Economic Data?" http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/10/09/How-Much-Trust-Should-We-Have-in-Economic-Data.aspx#page1 … by @MarkThoma"why are professors so liberal?"https:// orgtheory.wordpress.com/why-are-professors-so-liberal/ … see alsohttp://www. springerlink.com/606121216t62347/fulltext.pdf …"What number is halfway between 1 and 9? 5 or 3?" http://web.mit.edu/2012/thinking-logarithmically-1005.html … " it's actually more natural to think logarithmically than linearly"want a safe trip? do not travel in executive class http://youtu.be/...  see also http://www.popularmechanics.com/t… via @thelightcarrier"The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Whales" on @NYTimesWordplay's blog http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2le/?smid=tw-share … via @msgbi"The use of mathematics in economics and its effect on a scholar's academic career" http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4aper_41341.pdf … (nb equations per article)"The problem with high frequency trading" by Felix Salmon http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/012/10/06/the-problem-with-high-frequency-trading/ …"The True Value of a Sabbatical" http://chronicle.com/article-content/134792/ … via @collectifpapera"higher education system is failing to prepare students with needed digital and social skill set in any meaningful way"http:// tech.fortune.cnn.com/universities-are-failing-at-teaching-social-media/ …avec comme toujours quelques articles en francais,"Les mathématiques déchiffrent les réseaux sociaux" http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/71129.htm … via @willoxh"Lettre à l'Inist" http://www.affordance.info/2012/10/lettre-a-linist.html … par@affordanceinfo sur la diffusion des articles scientifiques (et qui paye)«L'éducation déchiffrée» nouveau blogue d'Eric Charbonnier, économiste à l'OCDE http://educationdechiffree.blog.lemonde.fr/  via@IanikMarcil"Le rôle des croyances et des idéologies dans l’économie politique des réformes" par Gilles Saint-Paul http://bit.ly/PRsyUE  via @Tournyol"Notre problème avec Facebook est un problème de topologie" sur le blog d'@affordanceinfo http://www.affordance.info/2012/09/probleme-facebook-topologie.html …"Que valent les revues scientifiques? ou «Dis-moi la taille de ton sexe, je te dirais qui tu es»" http://blogs.univ-poitiers.fr/o-bouba-olga/012/10/02/que-valent-les-revues-scientifiques-ou-dis-moi-la-taille-de-ton-sexe-je-te-dirais-qui-tu-es/ … par @obouba Did I miss something ?                                 Follow @freakonometrics!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");