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Yes, one more time, I will not post anything on my blog, just mention posts and articles found somewhere else. I am currently very busy, on different project... but I promise, there will be some updates soon... I will start with a couple of very intersting posts, discovered this week end,“Sharing news is not the same thing as journalism.” Science reporting vs reporting science http://scilogs.com/communication_breakdown/… by ShipLives"Journalism teaches the public about science, but who’s teaching the journalists?" http://theconversation.com/journalism… (part of https://theconversation.com/topics/maths-and-science-education)a still, a series of writings worth reading'"Poor English saved Japan's bankers during global financial crisis" http://news.com.au/business/… via fmirw"Many people fell prey to the dubious products, or so-called subprime loans. Japanese banks were not so much attracted to these products, compared with European banks,'' Mr Aso told a seminar in Tokyo. "Managers of Japanese banks hardly understood English, that's why they didn't buy,'' he said.[to be continued...]'The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out' http://nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/the-best-hope-for-frances-young-get-out.html … via Frances_Coppola and pierrebri"Is Self Regulation A Dinosaur on Wall Street?" http://ritholtz.com/blog/2013/07/…"How Introverts and Extroverts Can Peacefully Coexist" http://lifehacker.com/…"Government Surveys: How Statisticians Protect Your Identity" http://huffingtonpost.com/american-statistical-association/… "You're Just a Number to Me..." via ingorohlfingThomas Jefferson requested a further expansion of census data. His focus was on what influences life and health, specifically soil, climate and occupation and how these affect life expectancy. An expanded census, he explained, would provide a valuable opportunity to gather"facts highly important to society." Today, important and valuable information is collected through surveys, such as monthly numbers on employment and unemployment; international trade data; health status of the population; how many scientists, engineers and mathematicians the nation graduates each year; and whether prices are changing from month to month. Critics of government surveys bark another flawed argument: that, once collected, personal information is at risk. These people have, obviously, never met a statistician. Statisticians take data very seriously. We are data-control fanatics. We make sure your personal identifiers are deleted and the other data remains just that: a bunch of codes and numbers that don't identify you or connect you to the information you've provided.[to be continued...][free ebook] "Think Bayes" by Allen Downey http://greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/thinkbayes.pdf via cjohnson318 arnicas (with some Python inside)"Thinking critically on critical thinking: why scientists' skills need to spread" https://theconversation.com/thinking… (part of https://theconversation.com/topics/maths-and-science-education)"American Health Care—The Prices Are Too Damn High" http://slate.com/blogs/moneybox/… via mattyglesias see e.g. baby delivery'What is Science and Why Should We Care?' http://logosjournal.com/2013/sokal/  by Alan Sokal"Accept no substitutes: blogging is a valuable supplement to scholarship and rightfully challenges the status quo" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"Capital adequacy and hidden risk" http://voxeu.org/article/… via MarkThoma"Research dissemination is a public good, like street lighting" https://indico.cern.ch/… via tmccormick and davdittrichet toujours quelques billets et articles passionnants, en français,"Debord(er) la carte" http://strabic.fr/Debord-er-la-carte via VisionsCarto"Passionné de géographie, le nouveau cool" http://slate.fr/culture/73981/… via yann_c et Al_Rios_"Et si la Société générale n'avait rien retenu de l'affaire Kerviel" http://mediapart.fr/journal/france/290613/ … (abonnés)via populationdata "Europe : taux de chômage des jeunes dans les différents pays" http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr…Did I miss something ?