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As requested by several readers, a series of posts and articles (in English) that I did mention on Twitter (but most readers don't go on Twitter),"Tattoos: Addicted to the Needle" http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/0 …via @embruns"Top Marginal Tax Rates 1916-2010" http://visualizingeconomics.com/2011/04/14/top … via @ecointerview@sh_lelabo"How Hot Is It? All You Need To See Are These Two Maps" http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-w … via http://boingboing.net/2012/07/06/jus …"Children warned name of first pet should contain 8 characters and a digit" http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/06/08/chi …"Free Riders and Public Goods — Real and Fake" http://www.discourse.net/2012/07/free-r …"Selection bias and disagreement in blogging" by Nick Rowe http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_can …"many HR leaders (...) have little in the way of concrete guidance about how to fulfill that role" http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/why … via @BernardMarr"Growing the new data culture - and leveraging Big Data" http://www.cio.co.uk/article/336606  … via @ciouk @BernardMarr"Accidental Politicians: How Randomly Selected Legislators Can improve Parliament Efficiency" http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1224  and http://www.pluchino.it/parliament.html“Alcohol and group formation: A multimodal investigation of the effects of alcohol on emotion and social bonding”http://www.pitt.edu/~jeffcohn/bibl …"The problem with nerd politics" http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/201 … via@piotrr70 "Nerd determinism vs Nerd fatalism""online advertisers following consumers around the web - even when they block the snippets of tracking code (cookies)" http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/20 …awesome ! "applying data science to regulatory data is necessary to use city resources better" http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/06/predic …economists and their predictions for GDP growth, via http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicd …"forget positive thinking, try positive action"http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/j … see also http://psp.sagepub.com/content/25/2/2 … and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12416922 "can banks survive..."http:// stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_ … via @MSagebiel "... in a proper, honest, market economy ?"so, it looks like Higgs boson exists with 99.9999% certainty… or not ? http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-higgs-boso …"lie more, as a business model" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/lie …interesting question "what do consulting firms really add ?" http://www.quora.com/Management-Con …"banksters" http://www.economist.com/node/21558260 "The liberty to pee" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.de/2012/07/libert …Håvelmo’s "The Probability Approach in Econometrics" http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cp/p00a/p000 … and potential of economics for mathematicians http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.de/2012/01/why-do …"Why Reform Europe's Universities ?" http://www.bruegel.org/publications/p … et en francais,"L’industrie du divertissement est une bande de pillards. Plaidoyer pour la suppression du droit d’auteur" http://politiquedunetz.sploing.fr/2012/04/lindus … via @sh_lelabo@coulmont propose l'édition 2012 des associations entre prénom et mention TB au bac en France http://coulmont.com/blog/2012/07/0 …Grève 2.0 | Le Devoir http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/medias … via @ledevoir @J_P_Boucher"dans les pays nordiques, l’accès universel à une éducation gratuite va de soi..." http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/educat … via @LSHoule@fpelletier2Intéressantes pistes de réflexions: une relecture de Spinoza pour le renouveau démocratique? http://bit.ly/PvKxVR via @IanikMarcil les mentions au baccalauréat, en fonction du prénom, via l'excellent @coulmont http://coulmont.com/blog/2011/07/1 …le baccalaureat, en France: évolution de la distribution des mentions, de 1970 a 2010, source: http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-fran …la deformation de la distribution des notes au baccalaureat en France, avec le temps"Pourquoi les universités américaines dominent-elles les classements ?" http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribu …