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Some writings worth reading"Trolls just want to have fun" http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/…"The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality" http://papers.ssrn.com/2350768 …"Periodic table distorted by relative abundance" http://meta-synthesis.com/webbook/… (somehow, on the Earth)"All that is published does not replicate" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/…"Gender Bias in the Media? An Examination of Local Television News Coverage of Male and Female House Candidates" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/…"First thoughts on America 3.0 – the Emmanuel Todd connection" http://samizdata.net/2013/11/… hy @tylercowen"Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists?" http://npr.org/blogs/money/… ht @randal_olson see"Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate" http://nytimes.com/2014/03/18/…"Why are we changing maps?" https://youtu.be/n8zBC2dvERM  (West Wing) thanks to @visionscarto"The behavioral economics of drunk driving" http://oir.pku.edu.cn/UploadFiles/…"The Probability of Guilt in Criminal Cases: Are People Aware of Being ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’?" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…"The Science of ‘Paying It Forward’" http://nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/… ht @AnneLiseSeltz"As government financing of basic research has fallen off philanthropists have stepped in, setting personal priorities" http://nytimes.com/2014/03/16/science/…"Does the Academy Matter? Do policymakers listen? Should you get a PhD? And where are the women?" http://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/… ht @libbyanelson, see alsoJulien Tomas's blog has finally been launched http://www.likelihood.me/  nice !"Incentives and group identity" http://ftp.iza.org/dp6815.pdf"Simplifying Data Analysis and Making Sense of Big Data" http://scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/03/…doesn't matter (via @9gag)"One or multiple international currencies? Evidence from the history of the oil market" http://voxeu.org/article/there…Nice post by @sarahzielinski on "Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know" http://smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/… (indeed) ht @geopolitics2020"A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth" http://nytimes.com/2014/03/12/… by @portereduardo see"Statistics and Its Application" http://annualreviews.org/toc/… nice new journal, ht @robjhyndman and @deagiles"How the Weak Win Wars - A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict" http://stanford.edu/class/polisci211z/..."Three expert takes on Capital in the Twenty-First Century, French economist Piketty's data-driven magnum opus" http://prospect.org/article/…"Four reasons why the fight against climate change is likely to fail" http://mpe2013.org/2014/03/15/ …"Who’s More Famous Than Jesus?" http://nytimes.com/2014/03/16/… on http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/ seefor St Patrick's Day ! "God’s Lucky Man" http://city-journal.org/2014/… on Shane MacGowan (see https://youtu.be/fBCiy6Da96o )"What Real-Time Gambling Data Reveals About Sports" http://news.rapgenius.com/Atodd…"Crimea Through a Game-Theory Lens" http://nytimes.com/2014/03/16/… by @tylercowen"America Exports Democracy, Just Not the Way You Think" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/opinion/sunday/a-safer-way-to-export-democracy.html?action=click&#38;contentCollection=Opinion&#38;region=Footer&#38;module=MoreInSection&#38;pgtype=Blogs …hum? http://theonion.com/articles/… "M.A. officials say flight could currently be located in any possible alternate future""Should I Just Quit Academia?" http://slate.com/articles/life/… "It’s the last thing I want to do, but I may have no choice.""Macroeconomics and Methodology" by Chris Sims (from 1996) http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/pingle/… ht @Noahpinion"Hackers make the internet of things a fridge too far for security" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/…"How to shuffle songs?" http://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/… via @xiamat"The Future of Brain Implants" http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/… ht @cathcoste poke a student of mine, who definitively should consider this"Google may be a master at data wrangling, but one of its products has been making bogus data-driven predictions" http://newscientist.com/article/dn25217…"Text Mining Gun Deaths Data" http://econometricsbysimulation.com/2014/03/… ht @Rbloggers"Climate scientists 3 Economists 0" http://climatenewsnetwork.net/2014… ht @visionscarto"The top 40 countries by the number of research papers published during 2011" (via http://nature.com/news/…)et un peu de lecture en français,"La culture scientifique: ça sert à quoi?" http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/2…"L'appropriation des temps de déplacement" http://fr.forumviesmobiles.org/video/2014/03/18/… ht @visionscarto"Comment juger de la pertinence d'un sondage ?" http://lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/… (voir aussi https://youtu.be/eDkAARkEMoE )"Un quart des Américains pensent que la Terre tourne autour des États-Unis" http://legorafi.fr/2014/03/14/…"Dialogue de sourds dans le théâtre statistique" https://academia.edu/6307569/ … Analyse géométrique des données et effets de structure ht @coulmontDid I miss something interesting?