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A very interesting post, on academics, and the outside world,"To write for the public is to demonstrate social scientists have knowledge, expertise and thoughts worth considering" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences… (initially posted on http://backupminds.wordpress.com/...)“Anthropology,” James Peacock said in a 1995 address at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, “boasts brilliant observers, cultural critics, writers, and creators, yet few if any of us have produced books that we (not to mention others) crave to read, films that we crave to see, or music that we crave to hear.” Eighteen years have passed since Peacock spoke these words. So, have anthropologists today heeded his call? Are the crucial issues of our time receiving public reflection from anthropologists, if not in books, then in popular media? What are some of the obstacles that prevent us from doing so more often? With every passing year, I see more anthropologists using their regional and topical expertise to weigh in on social issues in the media. In this post, I’d like to address two possible ways that we as anthropologists can communicate with a lay public—media appearances and Op-Eds– and the positives and negatives of both. (to be continued...)a nice discussion with Ronald Coase (Nobel Price),[researcher modesty] "I've been wrong so often, I don't find it extraordinary at all" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/… via TimHarfordand as usual, a series of writing worth reading,"Model projections of atmospheric steering of Sandy-like superstorms" http://pnas.org/content/early/… [free ebook] "Quantitative Economics" by Thomas Sargent and John Stachurski http://quant-econ.net/_static/… (with Python codes)"A Co-Citation Network for Philosophy" http://kieranhealy.org/blog/… see"Are the chess World Champions just lucky?" http://chessbase.com/Home/TabId/… via MargRev"Social media" https://xkcd.com/1239/  see"Publishing research without data is simply advertising, not science" http://blog.okfn.org/2013/…"Researchers crack the math behind successful Reddit submissions" http://theverge.com/… and http://i.stanford.edu/~julian/… via Jo_LebelHow have Europeans grown so tall?" http://oep.oxfordjournals.org/content/… a (cohort) study over a century, see"Researchers must take a more aggressive approach to counter shoddy journalism" http://nature.com/… (via tomroud's post, mentioned below)"The art of sleeping in the library" http://mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/…[motor insurance] "Claims frequency in the U.S." http:/allstatenewsroom.com/channels/… via http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/… see"The Perfect Nap: Sleeping Is a Mix of Art and Science" http://online.wsj.com/article/…Awesome! https://www.youtube.com/… "Naming extreme storms" via msgbi"Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you" http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/… via pprevert"Where is Damascus?" http://toys.usvsth3m.com/damascus/  (via http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…) here are some results,[France] "A real ‘ancien regime’ social model is a scam for baby boomers to cling to advantages" http://ft.com/intl/cms/ … by Gaspard2012[wtf viz'] great tumblr! http://wtfviz.net/  "Will Big Data Bring More Price Discrimination?" http://forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/… via yvesmulkers"A Breathing Earth" (over 365 days) http://curioushistory.com/… seeand since my daughter asked me why, here is a graph,"The (Secret) Origins of Higher Education in America" http://io9.com/the-secret-…"15 Biases That Make You Do Dumb Things With Your Money" http://fool.com/investing/… see also http://marketwatch.com/story/… via ritholtz"Top Languages for analytics and data science" http://kdnuggets.com/… via revodavid's http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… see "The Rad New Words Added to the Dictionary in the '90s: Where Are They Now?" http://theatlantic.com/technology/… via tylercowen"Wasted and useful lives" http://cruisersforum.com/… see  avec un peu de lecture en français, a commencer par une pensée de la semaine (par bertrand_k)C’est un mec du Wall Street Journal qui rencontre un mec de Mediapart dans un bar. — He ! Toi aussi tu e… * BLAGUE RESERVÉE AUX ABONNÉS *sinon, parmi les lectures"Esthétique des cartes" http://sms.hypotheses.org/1113  par LabexSMS "Faut-il abolir les revues en ligne ?" http://alambic.hypotheses.org/4762  via michelbriand et Silvae"Le bêtisier scientifique de l’été" http://jpcmanson.wordpress.com/… via goulu"Iphone, réfrigérateur et communication scientifique" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/… par l'inimitable tomroud"Plus d'1/3 des Français sont climato-sceptiques" http://lemonde.fr/planete/article/… "plus ils le sont, plus ils ont tendance à soutenir le nucléaire", via OliveBerland et tomroudDid I miss something?