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The good news of this week, undoubtly, is"Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus" http://online.wsj.com/article/… and http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… by CarlBialik via msgbibut still a lot of interesting posts can be found elsewhere,"Having Fun with the 4-Color Theorem" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/… and "Wrong in Public" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/… by evelynjlamb via lauramclay"Decline of French Universities"http://understandingsociety.blogspot.ca/…"Twitter is not a random sample" http://statschat.org.nz/…on statschat's blog via egschmitt"Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion" http://pewresearch.org/… via Duncan_rdvav"How sports analytics have become a real game-changer" http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/… via MarkThoma(in Bayesian Statistics) "Do People “Really” Have Priors?" http://popsych.org/do-people-/ …"French immersion opens doors" http://ipolitics.ca/… by devonblack via KarineMyrgianie"French is one of the languages of the 21st century and it must stay on the syllabus of universities" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via phd35"Adapting to Climate Change: Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century" http://www.nber.org/papers/w18692"The Motley Roots of Data Visualization in 19th Century Census Charts" http://theatlanticcities.com/design/… see e.g."Are You an Investor or a Speculator?" by jasonzweigwsj part 1 http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/… and part 2 http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/…"U.S. Economic Mobility: The Dream and the Data" by Leila Bengali and Mary Daly http://frbsf.org/publications/economics/… via MarkThoma"Spurious Correlations Everywhere: the Tragedy of Big Data" http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/… by Geoffrey Pullum (behind LanguageLog) via crampell"Turning maths pupils into World War II codebreakers" http://guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/… via NGhoussoub[free ebook] "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in 1948 http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/… by Claude Shannon"Pessimism About the Future May Lead to Longer, Healthier Life" http://apa.org... via ‏bricksscience"Notes on prototyping the Guardian's editorial emails and what we learned about their design and user experience" http://guardian.co.uk/info/…"Why It’s Smart to Be Reckless on Wall Street"http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/… by Chris_arnade via cynorrhodon"The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation" http://nber.org/papers/w18301  by Lawrence Goulder and Roberton Williams III"Teleworking: The myth of working from home" http://bbc.co.uk/… by Margaret Ryan"Google thinks it created a monster in Samsung" http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/… and http://online.wsj.com/… on duopole Apple-Samsung, via ‏tdelahais"That is why novels sell better than statistics texts" http://johnkay.com/… on JohnKayFT's blog, via cynorrhodon"Most people no longer consider global warming serious as financial crisis changes priorities" http://dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/… via mattstatunemployement vs. finance, cointegration ICSA (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ICSA/ …) vs. SP500, via http://businessinsider.com/initial-claims-vs-stocks… see"Disastrous Predictions and Predictable Disasters" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/… by NYTimeskrugman"10 amazing scientific facts about lists" http://guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/… "People like lists [?], but why" via celiameriguet[free ebook] "Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach", by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak http://cs.princeton.edu/theory/… (all chapters in pdf)"Student Debt Nearly Tripled In 8 Years" http://huffingtonpost.com/… by tylerkingkade via aussietorres see also http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org…"How Airline Ticket Prices Fell 50% in 30 Years (and Why Nobody Noticed)" http://theatlantic.com/business/… via Noahpinion and mattyglesias"Academic papers" http://economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/…Avec aussi un bon nombre de billets en français, cette semaine,"A qui appartient le savoir?" http://lemonde.fr/sciences/… via ‏M_MicheleB et martin_pm"La régulation bancaire au pistolet à bouchon" http://blog.mondediplo.net/… par Frédéric Lordon sur le site du mdiplo[video] "Les paysages affectifs du capitalisme contemporain" https://youtu.be/ETRJ44UQ8xo  Frédéric Lordon et Fabien Danesi"Les scientifiques doivent-ils prêter serment ?" http://lesechos.fr/entreprises-secteurs/tech-medias/… via Sarah_Zhr et Genopole "même les maths" (semble-t-il...)« Les Français dorment, en moyenne, 7h13 par nuit ». Comme le notaitMaitre_de_conf  les enseignants-chercheurs, c'est pareil – mais par semaine. http://lemonde.fr/emploi/…"Droite, gauche: ils veulent tous faire entrer Stéphane Hessel au Panthéon. Et pourtant ils ne l’aimaient pas." http://slate.fr/story/…"17 jours, trois mois ou deux ans : combien de temps tester les OGM ?" http://lemonde.fr/planete/… via PasseurSciences"L’évaporation académique"http://coulmont.com/blog/... par coulmont via obouba qui poursuit http://blogs.univ-poitiers.fr/o-bouba-olga/…"Qui a lu Le Monde ne le lira plus" http://sebmusset.blogspot.fr/… par sebmusset via FrenchRedFrog et TotoroInParis "Il n'y a plus de blogueurs, vraiment ?" par benoitraphael via rosselin et FrenchRedFrog et enfin, l'article qui a mis le fueu aux poudres, "Qui blogua ne bloguera plus" http://.lemonde.fr/vous/… par blogOZfer via TotoroInParis"Si vous non plus vous ne savez plus quoi répondre quand on vous demande sur quoi porte votre thèse", via yann_c sur http://theseantithesefoutaises.wordpress.com/…"Est-ce que vous pensez qu'il est utile d'apprendre à faire un sondage avant d'en faire?" http://conservateur.ca/?page_id=2653&#38;lang=fr … via J_P_Boucher, e.g.Did I miss something ?