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Series of links to (interesting) posts and articles"Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem" http://smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovations/…"Reinhart-Rogoff’s Lesson for Economists" http://bloomberg.com/news/… via econoclaste and MarkThoma[maths] discussion on "Batman Equation" http://math.stackexchange.com/… via mathematicsprof and Econo_Stats see also http://wolframalpha.com/?i=batman+equation … see[R] 5,000,000 datasets http://www.quandl.com/  available via function Quandl in R, see http://econometricsbysimulation.com/… via rbloggers“When a person located abroad violates the laws of the United States that person may be held criminally liable despite the factt hat the person has never set foot in the United States" http://torrentfreak.com/ …"Forecasts Are Not Analysis; They are opinion" http://ritholtz.com/blog/… by ritholtz"Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches: Ask the Right Question" http://win-vector.com/blog… via rbloggers"Academic Writing" http://secondlanguage.blogspot.ca/…[chart] "Drug overdoses in the U.S." via http://cakostopoulos.tumblr.com/  and ilovecharts see"Bridging the gaps with Street View" http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/… via mathematicsprof"Who are the peer reviewers and how much do they review?" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2304210  "on average, about 2-3 hours in evaluating a paper""Peer review does not mean we can trust a published paper" http://svpow.com/…" Writing academic manuscripts is best done in a defensive posture" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-and-variation/… on KateClancy's blog via MarieNeFeI finally got the picture of the CT scan of my head..."Varieties of Academic Temptation" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/… via MarkThoma"Know when your numbers are significant" http://nature.com/journal/… "Young researchers need to be taught the practicalities of using statistics"back on some old and eternal debate http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/… "Does Class Size Count?"[twitter] "Most Tweets Produce Zero Replies" http://mashable.com/… via ‏conradhackett "71% of all tweets produce no reaction""The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal" by Amartya Sen (JPE, 1970) http://ow.ly/kLLxN  via ‏javieraparicio"Pandemics, health care policies and public goods" http://nytimes.com/… by tylercowen via margrev"The Economics of Social Status"by KevinSimler on ribbonfarm's blog http://ribbonfarm.com/…"Brain, Interrupted" http://nytimes.com/… a focus on distraction, via deadendrite"Research ties economic inequality to gap in life expectancy" http://washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ …"Why do the Italians live longer than us?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/…"Should you make your working papers public?" http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/… by robjhyndman a 2010 post discovered via http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/…NYC http://dailymail.co.uk/news/ … e.g.Et toujours un peu de lecture en français,"Pour la concurrence des idées dans l'enseignement de l'économie" http://lemonde.fr/economie/article/… via ‏TotoroInParis et anne_lavigne"Les traces d’un vélo" http://thedudeminds.net/?p=5636  via goulu"Obsolescence programmée" http://eric.cabrol.free.fr/dotclear/…"Comment juger qu’un résultat scientifique publié est bon ?" http://toutsepassecommesi.cafe-sciences.org/… via cynorrhodonPapa, "je vais t’écrire ta lettre de motivation. Je te dois bien ça." http://rue89.com/…"Petite généalogie de la diabolisation visuelle" http://culturevisuelle.org/icones/2734 "Plus ça change plus c’est pareil" http://voir.ca/ianik-marcil/… par IanikMarcil sur la situation actuelle à MontréalDid I miss something ?