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Some posts and articles worth reading,what americans think the income distribution is (vs. what it actually is ) https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM "Constructing academic alter-egos: identity issues in a blog-based community" http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/526/art%253A10.1007%252Fs1…"Everything About The Way We Teach Math Is Wrong" http://www.businessinsider.com/lockharts-lament-math-education-is-wrong-2014-10#ixzz3HHyVMoap … by @AndyKiersz"How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism" (and Twitter, too) http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/how-facebook-is-changing-the-way-its … "It’s search and social"Though other services, like Twitter and Google News, can also exert a large influence, Facebook is at the forefront of a fundamental change in how people consume journalism. Most readers now come to it not through the print editions of newspapers and magazines or their home pages online, but through social media and search engines driven by an algorithm, a mathematical formula that predicts what users might want to read. It is a world of fragments, filtered by code and delivered on demand. For news organizations, said Cory Haik, senior editor for digital news at The Washington Post, the shift represents “the great unbundling” of journalism. Just as the music industry has moved largely from selling albums to songs bought instantly online, publishers are increasingly reaching readers through individual pieces rather than complete editions of newspapers or magazines. A publication’s home page, said Edward Kim, a co-founder of SimpleReach, will soon be important more as an advertisement of its brand than as a destination for readers. “People won’t type in WashingtonPost.com anymore,” Ms. Haik said. “It’s search and social.” The shift raises questions about the ability of computers to curate news, a role traditionally played by editors. It also has broader implications for the way people consume information, and thus how they see the world."Behavioural economics: why do we study at university?" http://economicstudents.com/2014/10/behavioural-economics-why-do-we-study-at-university …in R, "An Approach to Providing Mathematical Annotations in Plots" http://www.stat.washington.edu/fritz/DATAFILES/MathinR.pdf …via @randal_olson "Spread of Black Death pandemic in Europe" (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackdeath2.gif …)The drunk utilitarian: Blood alcohol concentration predicts utilitarian responses in moral dilemmas http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027714001875# … ht @SteveStuWill"An interactive visualization to teach about the curse of dimensionality" http://simplystatistics.org/2014/10/24/an-interactive-visualization-to-teach-about-the-curse-of-dimensionality/ … by @simplystatsin the U.S. "Second immigration wave lifts diversity to record high" http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation/2014/10/21/diversity-race-ethnicity-change-100-years/16211133/ …"Fear is contagious" http://www.forbes.com/sites/joonyun/2014/10/22/ebola-and-second-hand-stress/ … "Ebola and Second-hand Stress" by @drjoonyun"Foundations of Data Science" https://research.microsoft.com/en-US/people/kannan/book-no-solutions-aug-21-2014.pdf … by John Hopcroft and Ravindran Kannan"How Bad Would US Poverty Be Without The Safety Net? This Bad." http://dadaviz.com/i/1579 "Women in academia are judged on their appearance" http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/oct/26/-sp-female-academics-dont-power-dress-forget-heels-and-no-flowing-hair-allowed?CMP=share_btn_tw …"A Roundup of Recent Text Analytics and Vis Work" http://blogger.ghostweather.com/2014/10/a-roundup-of-recent-text-analytics-and.html …"Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks" http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/index.html?width=1090#map …In a long history of infectious disease outbreaks Ebola is the latest but far from the largest http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141025-ebola-epidemic-perspective-history-pandemic/ …"A new study suggests that ethical behavior dances to a circadian rhythm" http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/are-mornings-for-morality-night-owls-might-disagree/ … ht @AntonioCasilli"The problem we face in the teaching profession is that we don’t really know what we are doing" http://websofsubstance.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/four-easy-steps-to-improve-teaching/ … by @websofsubstance"Growing old disgracefully: a deconstruction of death" http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/10/growing-old-disgracefully-deconstruction-death …last week-end before Halloween ![free ebook] "The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort" http://press.princeton.edu/class_use/courses/mehrling/The-New-Lombard-Street.zip … used for https://www.coursera.org/course/moneynot a pleasant reading, but I guess it's worth knowing what's going on out there http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/world/middleeast/horror-before-the-beheadings-what-isis-hostages-endured-in-syria.html?_r=0 … "The Horror Before the Beheadings""Climate and Conflict" http://www.nber.org/papers/w20598 "Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on Their Children?" http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/677231?uid=3738016&#38;uid=2&#38;uid=4&#38;sid=21104896495897 …"In Texas, It's Easier to Buy an Assault Weapon Than to Vote" http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/in-texas-it-s-easier-to-buy-an-assault-weapon-than-vote/ … ht @fdastous"Connecting music and art via mathematics" http://www.notesartstudio.com/hall-of-the-mountain-king.html … (see http://blogs.siam.org/sparse-matrices-and-the-london-electronic-music-scene/ …)"Geodemographics of Londoners" http://loac.datashine.org.uk/#zoom=12&#38;lat=51.52&#38;lon=-0.15&#38;layers=BTTT&#38;datalayer=loac11 … via http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2014/geodemographics-Nice (by @flipflopflying) "Different Band Members and Where They Stand on Stage""A Model of Modeling" http://itzhakgilboa.weebly.com/uploads/8/3/6/3/8363317/gpss_model_of_modeling.pdf … (just amazing...)"The geography of joblessness" http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21627628-difficulty-people-have-getting-jobs-makes-unemployment-unnecessarily …"Has open access failed?" http://blog.oup.com/2014/10/open-access-success-failure/ …Twitter Followers-Following Patterns (capped at 1000) by @rcweir"Redistribution between generations" http://mainlymacro.blogspot.fr/2014/10/redistribution-between-generations.html …Shouldn't we pay teachers more? http://www.vox.com/2014/10/24/7053395/teacher-salaries-the-equity-project-study …"Overweight in dogs, but not in cats, is related to overweight in their owners" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19545467"How social media is redrawing our borders." http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/mapmaking_using_reddit_okcupid_twitter_and_other_social_media_websites.html …"Yale Researchers Project Spiraling Ebola Numbers Without More International Aid " http://www.courant.com/health/hc-yale-ebola-study-1024-20141023-story.html …"Could Game Theory Be Used To Prevent Human Extinction?" http://io9.com/could-game-theory-be-used-to-prevent-human-extinction-1649795888 … ht @msgbi"The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor and papers' citations in the digital age" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.4328v1.pdf …"A Schumpeterian Model of Top Income Inequality" http://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/inequality.pdf …"Witches, Vampires And Pirates: 5 Years Of America's Most Popular Costumes" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/27/359324848/witches-vampires-and-pirates-5-years-of-americas-most-popular-costumes …et un peu de lecture en français,"Pour un accès libre et gratuit aux articles scientifiques" http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2014/10/24/01008-20141024ARTFIG00297-pour-un-acces-libre-et-gratuit-aux-articles-scientifiques.php … voir également "Les nouveaux enjeux de l’édition scientifique" http://www.academie-sciences.fr/presse/communique/rads_241014.pdf …"C'est 82% de la population active en France qui touchent une rémunération moyenne à peine supérieure au Smic" http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/economie/20141028.OBS3377/les-non-cadres-gagnent-1-541-euros-bruts-en-moyenne.html …L'école en France, "un système irresponsable et cruel" http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/education/20141023.OBS2990/l-ecole-en-france-un-systeme-irresponsable-et-cruel.html … ht @econoclaste"Esthétique des statistiques" http://www.previeux.net/html/textes/statact.html … par Julien PrévieuxLa dimension artistique des approches quantitatives n’est finalement jamais mieux perceptible que lorsqu’on les considère comme autant d’outils destinés à la fabrication de formes. En se concentrant strictement sur leurs qualités visuelles singulières, on peut en modifier l’objet en profondeur : l’évaluation et l’optimisation cèdent la place à la constitution de communautés temporaires utilisant ces outils pour mieux concevoir des expériences esthétiques. Le processus de travail statactiviste dans sa dimension artistique consiste ici à proposer d’autres usages de ces technologies pour activer leurs capacités critiques et libérer leurs potentialités ludiques et graphiques."Les Etats-Unis représentent 83% de la capitalisation boursière des entreprises numériques, contre 2% en Europe" http://www.slate.fr/story/93859/etats-unis-hyperdomination-numerique …"L'éducation nationale et les chercheurs" http://www.leconomiste-notes.fr/dotclear2/index.php/post/2014/10/25/L-%C3%A9ducation-nationale-et-les-chercheurs … par @MathieuPerona"Université : pourquoi la sélection peut être une solution" http://jfmela.free.fr/jfmblog/?p=306"Aidez le CERN avec ses photos mystères" http://www.laboiteverte.fr/aidez-cern-ses-photos-mysteres/ … "1947 : Invention du suppositoire" (par @grommeleur)Did I miss something interesting?