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A series of posts about the tornado in Oklahoma City,"Mapping the Devastation Along the Tornado’s Path in Oklahoma" http://nytimes.com/interactive/… via nytgraphics"A humbling map of real-time wind patterns in Tornado Alley" http://io9.com/,,, see also http://io9.com/... andMay 1999 (green) vs May 2013 (red) http://science.nbcnews.com/… see"Tornadoes in America" http://heatlantic.com/technology/… "A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma" by alexismadrigal"Could you stop tornados before they start?" http://io9.com/… "Why are tornadoes so hard to predict?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…And as usual, a series of posts, here and there, discovered this week "Are Smartphones Making Us Dumber?" http://forbes.com/sites/netapp/… by kathellison via richi[art] "Arthur Heist [DK] Analyze Dat: TOR Visualization" http://sightandsoundfestival.ca/… (via pareto35) in Montréal, QC"What is the debate over climate and conflict about?" http://fight-entropy.com/… very interesting post related to http://nature.com/nature/journal/…"Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn’t everyone else?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"Why Is Europe So Messed Up?" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy… by JohnCassidy"The Obesity Apologists" http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/… by virginiahughes via BoraZ[sex] "High heels as supernormal stimuli" http://ehbonline.org/…"Only 27% of college grads have a job related to their major" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… "62% have a job that actually require a college degree""'Significance', in 1885 and today" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/… very interesting, on LanguageLog's blog"What Do I Have to Do to Get an A in This Class? (A Mathematical Perspective)" http://huffingtonpost.com/c…"What’s the best way to pass a climate bill?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/ … "Fix the economy first...""Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories" http://nytimes.com/… via MargRev[free ebook] "Foundations of Computer Science" Aho &#38; Ullman http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/… via CompSciFact and Atabey_Kaygun"Retrospectives: On the Definition of Economic" http://pubs.aeaweb.org/… by Roger Backhouse and Steven Medema"Optical illusion: train moves both ways" via BoingBoing"Big banks are still gaming the state, but who's got the courage to say it?" http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via mathbabedotorg"Government Failure vs. Market Failure" http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/…"Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans" http://jstor.org/… Ouchi (1980) via http://blog.educpros.fr/isabelle-barth/… (and still Anne_Lavigne)"Should French universities teach in English?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/… via bjkingape and AnnaAnthro"Rent-Seeking, Public Choice, and The Prisoner's Dilemma" http://friesian.com/rent.htm Are mathematical concepts and theorems discovered, or invented? http://people.exeter.ac.uk/PErnest/…"Going to Extremes" http://democrats.naturalresources.house.gov/sites/… "Climate Change and the Increasing Risk of.Weather Disasters""An Economic Model for a Lovers’ Quarrel" http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/…"The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets" http://bis.gov.uk/assets/foresight/…"Why French Kids Don't Have Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder" http://psychologytoday.com/blog/… via medskep"How to Be a Woman Programmer" http://nytimes.com/… via lauramclay"The Commercial Exploitation of Fear, Risk, and Body Image" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/… "Angelina Jolie and the One Percent""Inducing Peer Pressure to Produce Cooperation" http://nature.com/srep/… great paper (even if a second reading is necessary) via ‏marktmaclean"What if there were a war of programming languages who would you support and why?" http://quora.com/Programming-Languages/ … via sertalpbilal"Matt Parker: 'I'm obsessed with spreadsheets at the moment'" http://guardian.co.uk/stage/… via lauramclay (and msgbi and TeraEuro)"Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?..." http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/… with delong's answer to http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/…"Tar sands exploitation would mean game over for climate, warns leading scientist" http://guardian.co.uk/environment/… via FrenchRedFrog"The Internet destroyed the middle class" http://salon.com/…"Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully..." http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/… via boraz"What Stock to Buy? Hey, Mom, Don’t Ask Me" http://nytimes.com/… via Anne_Lavigneavec comme souvent quelques billets en françaisDiscussion autour des œuvres de Julien Prévieux https://www.franceculture.fr/… via Ed_LaDecouverte et Anne_Lavigne cf aussi http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/…"L'industrie et la science du mensonge" http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/… sur le livre de sfoucartyes ! "Aux Etats-Unis, le débat fait rage" http://grosse.fatigue.free.fr/causetoujours/… via Anne_Lavigne " Sexes et races, deux réalités" http://cafaitgenre.org/… mais aussi http://uneheuredepeine.blogspot.fr/… par Uneheuredepeine"Angelina Jolie, et la fin de l'assurance" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/… par adelaigue"consommation nationale d’alcool en baisse, mais à Rennes, lever le coude à l’excès reste une tradition bien ancrée" http://liberation.fr/societe/…Did I miss something ?