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Like every Sunday (almost), it is time share links to read interesting posts I found, here and there. This week, we should start with"What Ockham really said" http://boingboing.net/…via cynorrhodonamong many other posts and articles,"complex calculations faced by those who select people for powerful, lifetime positions" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/... via CutTheKnotMath"Scientists who engage with society perform better academically"http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4672  (a 2008 paper, via inundata)"Too Big to Fail has become Too Big for Trial" via http://thebrowser.com/…"on the Value of Academic Blogging" http://ft.com/intl/… via http://themonkeycage.org/blog/"When it comes to fear of flying, it's the idea that risk should be treated purely as a number which is irrational" http://guardian.co.uk/science/…"is economics more insular than I thought?" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/is-…deep inside #bigdata "a massive data set of 10,000 porn stars" http://jonmillward.com/blog/ … via MargRev e.g stats by names"who pays teachers best for their time" via emmadefaud and http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/l-instit-humeurs/…"The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices" http://papers.ssrn.com/…"Did an Excel error bring down the London Whale?" http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… via Rbloggers[for geeks only] "A mathematical model of sentimental dynamics accounting for marital dissolution" http://plosone.org/… with a bonus Figure"The Importance of Excel" http://baselinescenario.com/ … "perils of bad software in the business world and the financial industry in particular" "Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong" http://theatlantic.com/magazine…"We’re more fooled by noise than ever before, and it’s because of a nasty phenomenon called 'big data'." http://wired.com/…"Data Visualization Gallery" http://census.gov/dataviz/  "A weekly exploration of Census data.""The technical competence of economic policymakers" http://voxeu.org/article/technical-… via went1955"Retraction is exploding, replicability of research diminishing, and our measure of journal quality is farcical" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…"Jewish Problems" http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556"Global R&#38;D: An Overview" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/ … based on http://.bruegel.org/publications/… see e.g. R&#38;D expenditures as % of GDP"Will Subway Fares Rise? Check at Your Pizza"http://nytimes.com/… in the 80's via http://futilitycloset.com/…"Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers?" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9588755  or http://blog.sethroberts.net/… [for the pdf] nice dataset,want to see it"Even (Mixed) Risk Lovers are Prudent" http://lem.cnrs.fr/… see also http://papers.ssrn.com/ …"Life Expectancy as a Constructed Belief: Evidence of a Live-To or Die-By Framing Effect" http://papers.ssrn.com/ … via HarvardBiz"How much does hip surgery cost? Somewhere between $10,000 and $125,000" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog …"seven decades of raising prices" (in NYC) http://go.bloomberg.com/market-now/…et quelques billets intéressants, en français,"Free quand l'idéologie de la concurrence dessert l'économie" http://lecercle.lesechos.fr/entreprises-marches/… par Bruno Deffains, la suite sur http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/economie…"Loi bancaire : les contribuables ne doivent pas payer pour la finance" http://liberation.fr/economie/…"Un jeune, un vieux, on est mieux ?" http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/… par econoclaste via adelaigue et obouba"L'“open data”, pourquoi ça coince" http://acteurspublics.com/ … via ‏VisionsCartoDid I miss something ?