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Several interesting posts, here and there, this weekFrom April 26th until May 7th, 1986, in Europe, via http://ucsusa.org/news/... see"Why have so few bankers gone to jail for their part in the financial crisis?" http://economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/… via TheEconomist"The French elite: where it went wrong" http://ft.com/intl/cms/… via LaGuirlande[geek and actuary] http://math.stackexchange.com/… "How often does it happen that the oldest person alive dies?" (as mentioned by leandro_cc best answer was "once")"Pi seems a good random number generator – but not always the best" http://purdue.edu/uns/html4ever/…"The Mathematics of Juggling" https://simonsfoundation.org/features/ … via http://cientificamerican.com/…"Research shows another reason for fee transparency" http://insidehalton.com/opinion/columns/… via JofFinance"Who says North is up?" http://we-are-star-stuff.tumblr.com/… via ilovecharts see"Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing?" http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/…http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/ … "Why are birthrates falling around the world? Blame television..."[Ad] "Against child abuse" https://youtu.be/6zoCDyQSH0o  extremely clever (via http://huffingtonpost.com/… )"Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/… by Joe Stiglitz, via MarkThomaGood thing we had Kyoto Protocol ! "Time to wake-up!" http://philippewaechter.natixis.com/… (did it sound like I was being cynical ?) by phil_waechter see[R] nice post on animations with R, http://trinkerrstuff.wordpress.com/…[photography] "Bureaucratics" http://brainpickings.org/index.php/…"How should economists respond to the National Household Survey?" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/… "The voluntary nature of the survey compromises...""Stereotypes in Europe" http://ftalphaville.ft.com/… via http://marginalrevolution.com/… see also http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/… (I did like the fact that for French people, French are at the same time the most and the least arrogant people in Europe)"What if the ‘mass media’ era was just an accident of history?" http://paidcontent.org/… by mathewi via rosselin[video (game?)] https://youtu.be/rB5jJuMP84E  "Nanex ~ Order Routing Animation ~ 02-May-2013" via goulu (see also http://popsci.com/technology/,,, for more details about the graph - additional details on HFT should be skipped)ein wenig Lektüre in Deutsch (für einmal)"Computer und Gott" http://futurezone.at/meinung/… von peterglaseret un peu de lecture en françaisRapport "enseignement de l’informatique à l’école" http://academie-sciences.fr/… (sous-titré "il est urgent de ne plus attendre") via http://blog.usinenouvelle.com/innovation/…"Les inégalités ont toujours existé" http://monde-diplomatique.fr/… via mdiplo"L’école, chronique d’une incompréhension collective" http://geographie.blog.lemonde.fr/… par Geographedumond"Le grand méchant anglais scientifique" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/… par tomroud"L’attentat de Boston : Chronique d’une compassion sélective" http://acrimed.org/… par VictorSR1988 et TristanIrschli"Modeling the Eurovision Song Contest" http://mewo2.com/nerdery/… (en anglais, mais j'ai l'impression que seuls les francais suivent l'Eurovision)Did I miss something ?