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As usual, some posts and articles worth reading"Programming tools: Adventures with R" http://www.nature.com/news/programming-tools-adventures-with-r-1.16609 …"How The Economist Got Its List Of Top Economists Wrong" https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-the-economist-got-its-list-of-top-economists-wrong/ … by @bencasselman"Together with publishing business models, copyright law seems to deter distribution and diminish access" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.12057/abstract …"67 Years Of Missing Flights" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/missing-flights/"The Evolution of Academic Blogging" http://aci.info/the-evolution-of-academic-blogging/ …"Our 33 Weirdest Charts From 2014" http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/our-33-weirdest-charts-from-2014/ … by @ascheink"Why police officers often resort to lethal force as their first response" http://www.vox.com/2014/12/26/7447891/police-shoot-taser …Oymyakon, Russia, regarded by most at the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth http://uk.businessinsider.com/pictures-from-oymyakon-russia-2014-12#ixzz3NSLDx400 …"One Page R: A Survival Guide to Data Science with R" http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/one-page-r-a-survival-guide-to-data-science-with-r …"The two cultures of mathematics and biology" http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-cultures-of-mathematics-and-biology/ … by @lpachter"Uncanny Moments on the Streets of China Photographed by Water Meter Reader Tao Liu" http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/12/tao-liu-street-photography-china/ …"A Not So Happy Day after All: Excess Death Rates on Birthdays in the U.S." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614008120 … (see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2404 )"Winter Is Coming" http://www.drbunsen.org/winter-is-coming/ …“Piracy is not theft!” Is it just students who think so? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214804314001165 …via  @DiegoKuonen Involvement of statisticians is no longer an advantage but a necessity! http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2015/1/what-everyone-should-know-about-statistical-correlation/99999 …Number of "Palestinan" and "Jews" living in Palestine, by @Jishai based on http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/site/512/default.aspx?tabID=512&#38;lang=en&#38;ItemID=1292&#38;mid=3171&#38;wversion=Staging"The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously." http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/ …"Open Access 2014: A Year that Data Cracked Through Secrecy and Myth" http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/open-access-2014-a-year-that-data-cracked-through-secrecy-and-myth/ …having a typical day? you're probably not the only one http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/30/having-a-typical-day-in-2014-youre-not-alone/ …via @Noahpinion When oppressed people waste their energy playing "more oppressed than thou" games, oppression wins. http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/on-nerd-entitlement-rebel-alliance-empire …amazing list of (not too) Frequently Asked Questions http://www.amazingaustralia.com.au/faq.htm  about Australia, for tourists"what would happen if..." (via @_youhadonejob)Thoughts on “Teaching Economics After the Crash” https://medium.com/@WhelanKarl/thoughts-on-teaching-economics-after-the-crash-50fa61a40629 … by @WhelanKarl ht @MathieuPerona"Economics of Walking in NYC" https://medium.com/@TaymourHeikal/economics-of-walking-in-nyc-a47ebe4e62d6 … (taking into account red lights...)via @tomroud How to read more http://austinkleon.com/2014/12/29/how-to-read-more/ … ht @io9et en français, juste un joli dessinRT @Telerama Les médecins manifestent. Contre quoi ? Eux seuls le savent... Dessin du jour par Co3pointsDid I miss something interesting?