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Some writing worth reading, as well as interesting graphs,"wages have lagged productivity since the 1970s" by @BCAppelbaum (via http://theatlantic.com/business/…)"During the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967, Charlton Heston noted 'an instinctive segregation' on the set...." http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/…During the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967, Charlton Heston noted “an instinctive segregation on the set. Not only would the apes eat together, but the chimpanzees ate with the chimpanzees, the gorillas ate with the gorillas, the orangutans ate with the orangutans, and the humans would eat off by themselves. It was quite spooky.” [to be continued...]"Here’s why I inflated grades" http://qz.com/157579/confession… and "Can Harvard stop awarding so many As?" http://edition.cnn.com/2013/… "It makes one wonder why the school bothers giving grades at all"Nice graph! http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/f … "Asian countries are overtaking European countries when it comes to prosperity""Teacher Education for Middle School Mathematics in Six Countries" http://usteds.msu.edu/MT21...  via @DTWillingham's "What the NY Times Doesn't Know About Math Instruction" http://danielwillingham.com/1/… (and @MrHonner)"Triangles to Capture Social Cohesion" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.3231…"Geometric approach to network-driven contagion phenomena" http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/projects/… via @goulusee also"U.S. Mortality Gap" via http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php… and @onceuponA's http://theincidentaleconomist.com/… see (U.S. = red dots)and "Life Expectancy at birth and health care spending per capita" via @aaronecarroll's http://theincidentaleconomist.com/… see"Challenges of Big Data Analysis" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.1479… via @deagilesFama and Shiller http://theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/… (on each other) via @tylercowen"Popular Map Of The World Is Misleading" http://businessinsider.com/mercator… via @VisionsCarto"Voting Relationships between Senators" http://renzolucioni.com/articles/… by @RenzoLucioni (again, thanks to @BeaumontChris) and and http://static.davidchouinard.com/congress/  (via @BeaumontChris )"Global Gender Disparities in Science" http://info.ils.indiana.edu/gender/… via @deuxieme_labo and http://nature.com/news/bibliometrics… see e.g."Most researchers that I know who are lucky enough to be employed are doing the work of 4 or 5 people" http://alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?p=931 "Let’s face it. Most researchers that I know who are lucky enough to be employed are doing the work of 4 or 5 people (see also this paper by Rosalind Gil). Even some of my friends, lucky enough to have tenure or tenure-track positions, seem miserable. Maybe it’s survivor guilt, but they are stressed, distracted, and harried. Time and attention are precious and spent judiciously, usually in a manner where rewards are clear and certain. Data management plans, data sharing or collaboration on GitHub? Who has time for all that?! They don’t count for much in the academic rat-race, and so the normative reward structures in the Academy create perverse incentives for neglecting or outright hoarding of data. Data sharing advocates talk about how data should get rewarded just like other forms of publication. Data should “count” with measurable impacts. As a data sharing advocate, much of this really does appeal to me. Making data sharing and collaboration part of the mainstream would be fantastic. If we convince universities to monitor data citation metrics, they can “incentivize” more data sharing. We can also monitor participation in social media (Twitter), version control (GitHub), etc. All of these statistics can be compiled and collated to provide an even more totalizing picture of a researcher’s contributions. But are more metrics (even Alt-metrics) really the solution to the perverse incentives embodied by our existing metrics? The much derided “Impact Factor” started out as a way for librarians to make more informed choices about journal subscriptions (at least according to this account). In that context, the Impact Factor was relatively benign (see this history), but it then became a tool for Taylorism and the (coercive) monitoring of research outputs by university bureaucracies. That metric helps shape who gets hired and fired. And while metrics can be useful tools, the Impact Factor case shows hows metrics can be used by bureaucracies to reward and punish." [to be continued...]"It’s Simple: Fewer Guns, Fewer Suicides" http://slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/…[free ebook] "Mining the Social Web" https://rawgithub.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web… (the Twitter chapter)"Female scientists account for fewer published papers and get cited less." http://arstechnica.com/science/…"Problem Solving" by @jeromevadon (see http://kwintessential.co.uk/read-our-blog… ) via @Anne__Lavigne cfavec quelques billets en français,"Les salaires minimum, en Europe" (via http://franceinfo.fr/economie/smic…)"Big Data : pourquoi nos métadonnées sont-elles plus personnelles que nos empreintes digitales ?" http://internetactu.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/… via @lisbelii"C'est une particularité française que de douter de ses universités et de se méfier de ses universitaires." http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/terra-nova/ …"Les enfants ne savent pas se servir d’un ordinateur et vous devriez vous en inquiéter." https://nicolaslegland.wordpress.com/20/… via http://eric.cabrol.free.fr/…"Consommation individuelle effective en Europe" avec les crayons de couleur de @VisionsCartosur l'internet libre http://lemonde.fr/technologies/… "se protéger seul dans son coin, c'est comme recycler trois déchets pour sauver la planète""Travail et travailleurs de la donnée" http://internetactu.net/2013/12/13… par @karmacoma @gfouetil et @strauxNobel d'Economie: année de 'la' contribution majeure, vs. année d'attribution du prix, via http://www.mafeco.fr/?q=node/285  cf"Absorbé par l’écran de son iPhone, il marche sans interruption de Montréal à Chibougamau" http://lenavet.ca/2249/absorbe…toi aussi tu es parfois dépité par les fichiers srt trouvés en ligne ? http://lessoustitresdelahonte.tumblr.com/  e.g.Did I miss something?