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Some writings worth reading"Kapital for the Twenty-First Century?" http://dissentmagazine.org/kapital-for… (extremely interesting review)"Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA" http://wired.com/2014/04/tails  (see also http://theguardian.com/world/2013…)"Why UPS Trucks Don't Turn Left" http://priceonomics.com/why-ups …"Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil" http://motherjones.com/politics/2… via @tomkeene see"Text Contraction and Expansion in Translation" http://kwintessential.co.uk/translation/… (via http://blog.tcrouzet.com/2014/…)"Public Universities Should Use Open Source Software" http://econometricsbysimulation.com/2014/04/ … (or in French http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/5279  for some similar thoughts)"Too many degrees are a waste of money" http://economist.com/news/united-states/… "The return on higher education would be much better if college were cheaper""Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" http://princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens…"How not to visualize America's changing demographics" http://vox.com/2014/4/1… via @mattyglesias the worst chart ever!"Daytime Napping and the Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality" http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/… (via http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014…)"The Promise and Peril of Big Data" http://aspeninstitute.org/sites/…"Monte Carlo approximation of π using importance sampling with shots coming out of a Mossberg 500 pump-action shotgun" http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1499 via @J_P_Boucheranything you say... (via http://bizarrocomics.com/2014/04/05/ …)"If grant selection were random, could you tell?" http://winmoregrants.wordpress.com/2014… via @conjugateprior @raulpacheco ('cause they're not?)"IPCC climate change report: averting catastrophe is eminently affordable" http://theguardian.com/environment/… ht @FrenchRedFrog and @azizonomics"Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world" http://theguardian.com/books/2014/…Browsers! (via @Brilliant_Ads)"is the joy of working in a research field you love worth the pressure and uncertainty of an academic career?" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/…"Statisticians slam popular teacher evaluation method" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/13/… by @valeriestrauss"Forecasting alchemy" http://larspsyll.wordpress.com/… (via @deagiles)"Have big university lectures gone out of fashion?" http://theguardian.com/education/2014/… "Most commonly spoken language in U.S. (after English)" http://pewrsr.ch/1ew3jaw  via @conradhackett"Barbie exposure may limit girls’ career imagination:" http://scientificamerican.com/podcast/…"Scientific Uncertainty and Climate Change", Unabated Emissions http://link.springer.com/article/… and Mitigation http://link.springer.com/article/…"High frequency trading - too linked to fail, too fast to save?" http://bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/…"Community currency engineer Matthew Slater" http://cointelegraph.com/post/interview… interesting interview"The Legitimacy of High Frequency Trading" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.ca/2014/04… by @TCJUK"The North/South Muslim/Christian divide in Africa" (via http://amazingfactsworld.tumblr.com/…) seeet un peu de lecture en français,"Heartbleed, la faille de sécurité bien marketée" http://lemouv.fr/diffusion-heartb… par @vincentglad"La démocratie, c’est le partage non-marchand" http://blog.tcrouzet.com/2014/04/14…en France, "redécoupage des régions : prenez vos ciseaux" http://liberation.fr/politiques/2014… (Janvier 2014)"Google : Big Brother du Net ?" http://journaldunet.com/ebusiness/expert/…"L'avenir n'a pas besoin de nous" https://www.google.ca/url?www.lemonde.fr… mais "nous avons besoin de l'avenir c'est lui qui donne sens ce que nous faisons"avec une pensée pour les amis à Valparaíso !