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Some writings worth reading, discovered here and there"Companies are tax collectors, not taxpayers" http://biasedstatistics.blogspot.fr/2014/08/companies-are-tax-collectors-not.html … by @BiasedStats ht @Fabrice_BM"What is a Hacker?" http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html "No, all Americans are not created equal when it comes to belief in conspiracy theories" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/22/no-all-americans-are-not-created-equal-when-it-comes-to-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/ …"Who's In The Office? The American Workday In One Graph" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/08/27/343415569/whos-in-the-office-the-american-workday-in-one-graph …"Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence" http://blogs.hbr.org/… by @drtcp"Looking to the Future of Data Science" http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/08/27/looking-to-the-future-of-data-science/ … by @SteveLohr"Science’s Big Data Problem" http://www.wired.com/2014/08/sciences-big-data-problem … by @timohannay"Research dollars spent on a disease versus how that disease impacts quality of life" (via http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2etqho/research_dollars_spent_on_a_disease_versus_how/ …)"10 Things Every College Professor Hates" http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-every-college-professor-hates-2014-8 …"IMF Lists 25 Brightest Young Economists" http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/imf-lists-25-brightest-young-economists-1462827 … (so many French...)"Where We Donate vs. Diseases That Kill Us" (via http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2er3zq/redesign_where_we_donate_vs_diseases_that_kill_us/ …)"Good and Bad Inequality" http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/michael-spence-asks-whether-disparities-of-income-and-wealth-help-or-hurt-prospects-for-economic-growth … by @amspence98"Top 11 Funniest Papers in the History of Economics" http://250words.com/2014/06/top-11-funniest-papers-in-the-history-of-economics/ … including the amazing http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1831376 … in JPE ht @MargRev see also "An option value problem from Seinfeld” https://www.princeton.edu/~dixitak/home/Elaine-Final-Web.pdf …MT @TheEconomist The mystery of the "pause" in global warming may have been solved http://econ.st/1qKUSKq "Researchers are cracking text analysis one dataset at a time" http://gigaom.com/…"The Loss of Skill in the Industrial Revolution" http://growthecon.wordpress.com… (from http://cgeh.nl/sites/default…) ht @cblatts"Wall of War: a massive data visualization art installation" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/204448405/wall-of-war-a-massive-data-visualization-art-insta … by Dylan Halpern"How Social Media Silences Debate" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/upshot/how-social-media-silences-debate.html …"Did Tony Die At The End Of The Sopranos?" http://www.vox.com/2014/8/27/6006139/did-tony-die-at-the-end-of-the-sopranos … by @mpnochimsonMT @phdcomics "Why academics REALLY use Twitter" http://nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711 …"Cell-Phone Data Might Help Predict Ebola’s Spread" http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530296/cell-phone-data-might-help-predict-ebolas-spread/ …"Reconciling Utilitarianism And Contractualism" http://slatestarcodex.com/…Frédéric Chopin's histogram (in Largo in E-flat major, B.109, via http://reddit.com/dataisbeautiful/ …)"Sex and pronouns" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14216 " odds ratios can potentially lead to worse misunderstandings than mere naiveté about independence" via http://srqm.tumblr.com/ "21 GIFs That Explain Mathematical Concepts" http://www.iflscience.com/brain/math-gifs-will-help-you-understand-these-concepts-better-your-teacher-ever-did …"Mapping and distorting the Arctic" http://www.adn.com/article/20140730/mapping-and-distorting-arctic … by @miageografia (see also http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/13186 ) thanks @visionscartoAmericans, "Go fuck yourself" (via @9gag and Pietro Brnwa's "Wild Thing: A Novel")"The free market is an impossible utopia" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/07/18/the-free-market-is-an-impossible-utopia/ … by @henryfarrell".. are testing more and more hypotheses, but their studies are explaining less of the world" http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/08/ecology-explaining-less-and-less …How is our friend the policeman helping to keep the streets safe? http://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2014/08/28/our-friend-the-policeman/ …et un peu de lecture en français"Des livres, des lecteurs, des lectures" http://hyperbate.fr/dernier/?p=31255 …"Une alternative au droit d’auteur" http://www.lecourrier.ch/123348/une_alternative_au_droit_d_auteur … par @Lauradrompt"Comment les banques centrales provoquent les crises financières" http://www.economiematin.fr/news-crise-financiere-cause-banque-centrale …"Les déclarations d'Antoine Compagnon, reflet de l'arrogance de nos élites" http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/2014/08/22/31006-20140822ARTFIG00335-les-declarations-d-antoine-compagnon-reflet-de-l-arrogance-de-nos-elites.php … ht @gunthert"Logiciel Libre - juste une question humaine" http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/frederic-couchet/260814/logiciel-libre-juste-une-question-humaine … par @fcouchet ht @manhack (cf aussi http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/5279 )réflexion intéressante sur le rôle (social) de l'universitaire http://www.franceinfo.fr/player/resource/538247-1119423# … par @emmanuel_ethis et @davidenkoffy via @AnnaCuenca1Did I miss something interesting?