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Some posts and articles worth reading,"Microeconomics for All" https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/paul-seabright-criticizes-the-poverty-of-the-undergraduate-microeconomics-curriculum … ht @marcpourroy"Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels" http://www.nber.org/papers/w20720 on the superiority of economists http://newmonetarism.blogspot.fr/2014/12/economics-view-from-sociology.html … (see also http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-01-18 … on managers)"Experimental reasoning in social science" http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/yalecausal2.pdf … via http://andrewgelman.com/2014/12/03/observational-studies-outlawed-outlaws-will-observational-studies/ …"The best things in life aren’t always free, but they are freely available." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/12/04/digital-publishing-are-the-best-things-in-life-free/ … by @CecyMardenAnnual Wage, High School Graduate median vs. Bachelar Graduate 25% quantile (via http://fortune.com/2014/09/05/college-worth-value-debt-salaries/ …)"Privatization and the Public Good" https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/08/does-privatizing-public-higher-education-necessarily-undermine-public-good … about http://hepg.org/hep-home/books/privatization-and-the-public-good …"How economics is like 1950s Freudian psychology" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/08/economics-now-freudian-psychology-in-the-1950s/ … by @statmodeling"One year global lightning event density map" http://www.vaisala.com/Vaisala%20Documents/Brochures%20and%20Datasheets/WEA-GLD360%20brochure-B211271EN-A-8pages-LOW.pdf …"McCloskey on Piketty and Friends" http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/mccloskey-on-piketty-and-friends.html?spref=tw … by @johnhcochrane"Making the most detailed tweet map ever" https://www.mapbox.com/blog/twitter-map-every-tweet/ …"2014 Is Likely to Be the Earth's Hottest Year Ever. Why It Doesn't Matter" (by @eroston) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-03/2014-is-likely-to-be-the-earth-s-hottest-year-ever-why-it-doesn-t-matter-.html …"The French way of cancer treatment" http://blogs.reuters.com/anya-schiffrin/2014/02/12/the-french-way-of-cancer-treatment/ … (an old post of February)"That Smarts!: Smartphones and Child Injuries" http://www.palssonresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/smartphone_v17.pdf …via @businessinsider How Prepared Every State Is For A Natural Disaster In A Single Infographic http://www.businessinsider.com/natural-disaster-probability-by-state-2014-12#ixzz3LHbS5qNu …"Why Our Memory Fails Us" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/opinion/why-our-memory-fails-us.html …"New Technology for Tracking Consumers Across Devices Grows Results" http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532556/new-technology-for-tracking-consumers-across-devices-grows-results/ …"Killings by Cops 2012-2014" (in the U.S.) https://public.tableausoftware.com/profile/floresscarlos#!/vizhome/KillingsbyCop/KillingbyPolice …"@timberners_lee inventor of the world wide web issues a plea for more politicians who understand how computers work" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/media-network-blog/2014/nov/17/sir-tim-berners-lee-we-need-more-mps-who-know-how-to-code …"The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors" http://ftp.iza.org/dp7902.pdf  ht @NessimAitKacimi, see also "Academia as an ‘anxiety machine’" http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2014/12/05/academia-as-an-anxiety-machine/ … by @lemire ht @DevilleSy"How Much Money Do Migrants Send Home?" http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/feb/05/remittances-around-world-visualised …"Does Media Violence Predict Societal Violence? It Depends on What You Look at and When" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12129/pdf …""Do I Sound Gay?" Explores The Linguistic and Cultural Roots of The Gay Voice" http://www.fastcocreate.com/3038409/do-i-sound-gay-explores-the-linguistic-and-cultural-roots-of-the-gay-voice … by @ferarah"Recent global warming trends: significant or paused or what?" http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/12/recent-global-warming-trends-significant-or-paused-or-what#sthash.BvDHpWLq.dpuf …"What constitutes cruel and unusual punishment?" http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-smith-supreme-court-cruel-unusual-20141204-story.html …"For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong" http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/there-is-no-language-instinct/ …"The Most Conservative And Most Liberal Elite Law Schools" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-conservative-and-most-liberal-elite-law-schools/ …"At last the con has been taken out of econometrics" http://timharford.com/2010/03/at-last-the-con-has-been-taken-out-of-econometrics/ … by @timharford in 2010via @DevilleSy "Using [journal impact factor] as a proxy for the importance of a paper is just plain wrong" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6214/1155.full …happiness, or raise http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-04-06/ …"When Police Wear Military Uniforms, It Changes Their Psychology" http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/will-decreasing-police-use-military-gear-prevent-another-ferguson … via http://io9.com/when-police-wear-military-uniforms-it-changes-their-ps-1667030472 …"Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather?" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-city-has-the-most-unpredictable-weather/ … by @NateSilver538"Did Big Data Kill The Statistician?" http://goodstrat.com/2014/12/03/consider-this-did-big-data-kill-the-statistician/ … ht @DiegoKuonen"Brewer's conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.20.1495&#38;rep=rep1&#38;type=pdf …"A Persuasive Chart Showing How Persuasive Charts Are" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/upshot/a-persuasive-chart-showing-how-persuasive-charts-are.html … see also http://pus.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/23/0963662514549688.abstract …"Unlike Humans, Monkeys Aren’t Fooled By Expensive Brands" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/12/02/monkeys-fooled-expensive-brands/ … ht @davdittrich"Google Can Now Tell You're Not a Robot With Just One Click" http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-one-click-recaptcha/ …"The Google misery index: The times of year we’re most depressed, anxious and stressed" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/03/the-google-misery-index-the-times-of-year-were-most-depressed-anxious-and-stressed/ …"An examination of the idiosyncracies of the file formats offers an illuminating glimpse of history" https://themanual.org/read/issues/4/paul-ford/article …"What Should the World Fear: The Rise or Decline of Illiberal Powers?" http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/12/02/what-should-the-world-fear-the-rise-or-decline-of-illiberal-powers/ …I just love that dataviz' I keep seeing eveywhere, so I upload it here"Economists aren’t ‘superior’ just because" http://crookedtimber.org/2014/12/02/economists-arent-superior-just-because/ …"How Sociologists Made Themselves Irrelevant" http://chronicle.com/article/How-Sociologists-Made/150249/ … ht @xmolenat"Heart Rate (bpm) During Marriage Proposal" http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2o1rfe/heart_rate_bpm_during_marriage_proposal_oc/ …"Divorce rates increased in the 1970s and 1980s, but in the last 20 years they have dropped" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/th-divorce-surge-is-over-but-the-myth-lives-on.html …"Another reason to avoid reading the comments" http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-another-reason-to-avoid-reading-the-comments/2014/11/28/b37a9f30-7722-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html … by @anneapplebaum"The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men And how to reform our bigoted brains." http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/science-of-racism-prejudice …Integers are a unique factorization domain so we can't tune pianos. That's the saddest thing I know about integers http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2014/11/30/the-saddest-thing-i-know-about-the-integers/ …"High-frequency trading might reduce liquidity, not boost it as its defenders claim" http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21635078-high-frequency-trading-might-reduce-liquidity-not-boost-it-its-defenders …"Generational Data Is Lousy, But We Can Fix That" http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/12/02/generational-data-is-lousy-but-we-can-fix-that/ … "Good data on generations is hard to find"via  @guybirenbaum (and @NewYorker)et un peu de lecture en français"L’éthique et le marché" http://m.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/l-ethique-et-le-marche-0203992322487.htm … par @jeantirole"La colère se propage contre les bavures policières" http://www.ledevoir.com/international/etats-unis/425953/etats-unis-la-colere-se-propage-contre-les-bavures-policieres … (aux E.U.)via @LeMonde_correct "Monsieur en toutes lettres, tout le monde voit. Mais abrégé, ça donne quoi ? Mr., Mr ou M. ?" http://correcteurs.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/12/02/mr-ou-mr/ …"Un magasin Ikea, c’est construit comme un jeu vidéo" http://blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/extension-du-domaine-du-jeu/2014/12/04/un-magasin-ikea-cest-construit-comme-un-jeu-video-233879 … (via Olivier)Les algos de Google, un, qui trouve des pages répondant à certains mots l’a rendu populaire; l’autre l’a rendu riche http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2011/11/KAPLAN/46925 …via @g_allegre A propos de la supériorité des économistes, il n'est pas inutile de (re)lire Lordon: http://blog.mondediplo.net/2012-11-21-Economistes-institutions-pouvoirs …Les débats sur l’Enseignement Supérieur et les Universités seraient-ils sans fin ? http://blog.educpros.fr/romain-pierronnet/2012/01/07/un-texte-de-jules-ferry-sur-lenseignement-superieur-et-les-universites-1883/ … (J.Ferry en 1883) ht @JL_Vayssiere"La fin de l'écriture à la main" http://www.laviemoderne.net/detox/101-la-fin-de-l-ecriture-a-la-main … "Morale d'une fable médiatique" (l'écriture scripte contre l'écriture cursive)+1 "“Ouvrir les modèles !”, pas seulement les données" http://www.internetactu.net/2014/11/18/ouvrir-les-modeles-pas-seulement-les-donnees/ … ht @grisoudreDid I miss something interesting...?&#160;