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Some interesting posts and articles, here and there"At the Heart of Ebola — Health Systems That Need Strengthening" http://reliefweb.int/report/liberia/heart-ebola-health-systems-need-strengthening … ht @recifs"The 'curse of knowledge' leads writers to assume their readers know everything they know" http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-cause-of-bad-writing-1411660188 …Why is so much writing so bad? Why is it so hard to understand a government form, or an academic article or the instructions for setting up a wireless home network? The most popular explanation is that opaque prose is a deliberate choice. Bureaucrats insist on gibberish to cover their anatomy. Plaid-clad tech writers get their revenge on the jocks who kicked sand in their faces and the girls who turned them down for dates. Pseudo-intellectuals spout obscure verbiage to hide the fact that they have nothing to say, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.  But the bamboozlement theory makes it too easy to demonize other people while letting ourselves off the hook. In explaining any human shortcoming, the first tool I reach for is Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The kind of stupidity I have in mind has nothing to do with ignorance or low IQ; in fact, it's often the brightest and best informed who suffer the most from it. I once attended a lecture on biology addressed to a large general audience at a conference on technology, entertainment and design. The lecture was also being filmed for distribution over the Internet to millions of other laypeople. The speaker was an eminent biologist who had been invited to explain his recent breakthrough in the structure of DNA. He launched into a jargon-packed technical presentation that was geared to his fellow molecular biologists, and it was immediately apparent to everyone in the room that none of them understood a word and he was wasting their time. Apparent to everyone, that is, except the eminent biologist. When the host interrupted and asked him to explain the work more clearly, he seemed genuinely surprised and not a little annoyed. This is the kind of stupidity I am talking about. [to be continued...]"Changing Incentives to Publish and the Consequences for Submission Patterns" https://melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/conferences/Paperscellato%20for%20Melbourne …"Paying for Impact: Does the Chinese Model Make Sense?" http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/04/07/paying-for-impact-does-the-chinese-model-make-sense/ … (see also http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2011/b25445e4e2663433b393f6a333f2566915c2 …)"Are Cash Bonuses the Right Incentive for Science Authors?" http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/08/08/are-cash-bonuses-the-right-incentive-for-science-authors/ …"Changing Incentives to Publish" http://www2.gsu.edu/~ecopes/Science-2011-Franzoni-702-3.pdf …(in the U.K.) "healthy diet costs three times that of junk food" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11149644/Healthy-diet-costs-three-times-that-of-junk-food.html …"Rise and Shine" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/08/magazine/eaters-all-over.html … "What kids all around the world eat for breakfast""If this is a currency war the US is losing and seems totally O.K. with that" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/upshot/what-the-dollars-rise-tells-us-about-the-global-economy.html?smid=tw-nytimes … ht @aussietorres"Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks out on data ownership" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/08/sir-tim-berners-lee-speaks-out-on-data-ownership …"Will today’s allies become, yet again, tomorrow’s enemies?" http://insidestory.org.au/will-todays-allies-become-yet-again-tomorrows-enemies … by @JohnQuiggin"Teens are officially over Facebook" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/08/teens-are-officially-over-facebook/ …"it is not safe to assume that Microsoft Excel’s statistical procedures give the correct answer" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167947308001606 … "Persons who wish to conduct statistical analyses should use some other package""Beware of Econometricians Bearing Spreadsheets" by @DEAGiles http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/2011/08/beware-of-econometricians-bearing.html …"Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network" http://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network- … ht @cdesid"Security Threats To Wall Street" http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2014/10/08/security-threats-to-wall-street-and-the-big-data-solution/ … ("And The Big Data Solution")"Map error hastened Napoleon’s Waterloo defeat" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11144216/Map-error-hastened-Napoleons-Waterloo-defeat.html … ht @geopolitics2020 and @visionscartoRT @lauramclay: The Only 8 Numbers You Need To Do Math: 0, 1, -1, 1/10, sqrt(2), sqrt(-1), π, e http://www.businessinsider.com/numbers-you-need-to-do-math-2014-9#zero-1 …"How big data is unfair" https://medium.com/@mrtz/how-big-data-is-unfair-9aa544d739de … "Understanding sources of unfairness in data driven decision making" ht @moorejh"Measuring people power" http://www.economist.com/news/international/21621816-measuring-people-power?fsrc=tumb/chart …"What Is R-Nought, and How Is It Helping to Fight Ebola?" http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2014/10/the_gist_explores_how_r_nought_fights_ebola_and_priming_studies_with_maria.html …"How Did the Nobel Prize Become the Biggest Award on the Planet?" http://www.wired.com/2014/10/whats-nobel-prize-become-biggest-award-planet … ht @moorejh"Diasporas Mapping Migration of Ethnic Indian &#38; Chinese Communities" http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/diasporas … ht http://datarep.tumblr.com/ "The economics of obesity" http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/10/economics-obesity?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/one_big_problem … "One big problem"[free book] "Distribution-Free Statistical Tests" http://contrails.iit.edu/DigitalCollection/1960/WADDTR60-661.pdf … by James V. Bradley, 1960"What an impressive work of economic history tells you about inequality" http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21621908-what-impressive-work-economic-history-tells-you-about-inequality-breaking?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/breakingthecamelsback … ht @davdittrichnice ! http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/74097/actuarial-sciences… ht @RichmanRonald"Literature by the Numbers" http://nautil.us/issue/6/secret-codes/literature-by-the-numbers …"Jacques Lacan Was Sort of a Dick" http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/jacques-lacan-was-sort-of-a-dick-323 … ht @cynorrhodon"Maps of City Growth Over the Past Century Are Actually Shocking" http://io9.com/these-maps-of-city-growth-over-the-past-century-are-act-1643443928 …"How To Talk To Terrorists" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/-sp-how-to-talk-to-terrorists-isis-al-qaida …"Why public investment really is a free lunch" http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/9b591f98-4997-11e4-8d68-00144feab7de.html#axzz3FQJbZTbb …"Coffee &#38; Copious Co-authorship &#38; Causation &#38; Correlation" http://www.improbable.com/2014/10/07/coffee-copious-co-authorship-causation-correlation/ … by @MarcAbrahams"How much damage can a 6 year-old possibly do?" http://pnis.co/hard1.pdf  (the cost of raising a child like Calvin)How Tweets mentioning 'Ebola' spread across the world in October http://srogers.cartodb.com/viz/98cb3c42-4d7b-11e4-b811-0e4fddd5de28/embed_map …"From climate change to medicine to religion, everyone's an expert — except people who disagree with us. So what?" http://theweek.com/article/index/269149/america-doesnt-trust-its-experts-anymore …"Dance to the (Circadian) Rhythm" https://jawbone.com/blog/circadian-rhythm/ …"The Planning Machine" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine … "Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation""What kind of discipline involves the study of whips, chains and ropes? Wrong. And shame on you." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/science/the-math-of-whips-chains-and-ropes.html?_r=0 … ht @CardColm"Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science" http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/04/glut-postdoc-researchers-stirs-quiet-crisis-science/HWxyErx9RNIW17khv0MWTN/story.html … ht @albertinep"The cookie is dead. Here’s how Facebook, Google, and Apple are tracking you now" http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/06/the-cookie-is-dead-heres-how-facebook-google-and-apple-are-tracking-you-now/ … ht @EricSchererABC http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/z-is-for-zebra-90-percent-of-the-time/ … "Z Is For Zebra — 90 Percent Of The Time""Why spend money on fighting Ebola when you can spend money on war?" http://www.equaltimes.org/why-spend-money-on-fighting-ebola#.VDOxLJPJTeQ …"Missing Maps: nothing less than a human genome project for cities" http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/oct/06/missing-maps-human-genome-project-unmapped-cities …"The Problem With 'Pay for Performance' in Medicine" http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/upshot/the-problem-with-pay-for-performance-in-medicine.html?referrer= … ht @aaronecarroll @pash22"Faiths and the faithless: how popular do religions remain?" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/faithsandthefaithless … (in 2012) ht @TheEconomistet un peu de lecture en françaisbusiness school et recherche http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/enquetes/ipag-les-secrets-d-une-progression-fulgurante-en-recherche.html … la stratégie qui pousse jusqu’aux limites les règles du jeu, @EtienneGless ht @ChercheursdActu"L’exode de nos meilleurs économistes est préoccupant" http://www.challenges.fr/economie/20141009.CHA8786/jean-tirole-l-exode-de-nos- …"La violence des riches" http://youtu.be/Ys3cjJlTcDE  avec Monique et Michel Pinçon-Charlot sur leur livre http://www.editions-zones.fr/spip.php?page=lyberplayer&#38;id_article=176 …les systèmes fiscaux de la France, du Danemark et du Royaume-Uni http://dechiffrage.arte.tv/3-impots/contenu/14 … sur #Déchiffrage"Internet et le règne du « fake »" http://www.inaglobal.fr/numerique/note-de-lecture/charles-seife/virtual-unreality/internet-et-le-regne-du-fake-7859 …"Principe de précaution : l’amour du risque" http://www.www.lemonde.fr/planete… par @sfoucart"L’école française en retard d’une révolution" http://www.lemonde.fr/education/article/2014/10/09/l-ecole-francaise-en-retard-d-une-revolution_4503181_1473685.html … ht @profencampagne"Comparer les promesses de Hollande candidat à sa politique actuelle pour l’Université et la Recherche est instructif"http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2014/10/universit%C3%A9-et-recherche-les-promesses-de-f-hollande.html …MT @marindacos "L’Académie des sciences s’inquiète officiellement de la situation de la recherche en France" http://www.academie-sciences.fr/presse/communique/communique_081014.pdf …"L’open data ou « l’illusion que le rôle de l’expert technocrate est diminué »" http://www.lagazettedescommunes.com/244988/lopen-data-ou-lillusion-que-le-role-de-lexpert-technocrate-est-diminue/ … ht @JeanNicolas_"L’appel des biologistes à soutenir la recherche" (fondamentale) http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2014/10/02/l-appel-des-biologistes-a-soutenir-la-recherche_4499651_1650684.html …"Quand la science fait le « buzz »" http://sms.hypotheses.org/2723  par @MondesSociaux ht @LabexSMS"Lettre ouverte à ceux qui s’autorisent à penser… le numérique éducatif" http://www.culture-numerique.fr/?p=1901  par @michelguillou"Nous sommes Légion - Histoire des Hacktivistes" http://vimeo.com/104683625  par @AnonymousVideoTout ce qu’il faut savoir sur les manifestations à #HongKong http://eurone.ws/C7cxR  #OccupyHK #OccupyCentral