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Some posts and articles worth reading (now obtained almost automatically from my tweets)Roundup and 'Gluten Intolerance'  http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/~/media/2C6428C5A5254BAFB484C6E43E4ADCF9.ashx  correlation or causality?"Measuring Inequality"  http://darp.lse.ac.uk/papersdb/Cowell_measuringinequality3.pdf  by Frank A. Cowell"How statisticians changed the war [WWII], and the war changed statistics"  http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636589-how-statisticians-changed-war-and-war-changed-statistics-they-also-served "Life Expectancy improved in every country of the world"  http://maxroser.com/everyone-is-better-off-life-expectancy-increased/  on @ MaxCRoser's  blog  (nice viz', even if I believe that the title is maybe not appropriate)"Gigabyte gourmet: AI robot learns to cook just by watching YouTube videos"  http://rt.com/news/219687-robot-learns-watching-video/  ht @ aussietorres "The Death and Life of the 13-Month Calendar"  http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/12/the-world-almost-had-a-13-month-calendar/383610/ "Traffic Accidents Are More Likely When It Rains"  http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2r0e7b/los_angeles_traffic_accident_rate_in_rainy_vs_dry/  ht @ Jishai "Flight Reliability When Flying From New York To Chicago"  http://flightsphere.com/flight-reliability/from/new-york/to/chicago "How good are out-of-sample forecasting tests?"  http://www.voxeu.org/article/how-good-are-out-sample-forecasting-tests "Entrepreneurship, down-side risks, and social insurance"  http://equitablegrowth.org/news/entrepreneurship-side-risks-social-insurance/  by @ nick_bunker  ht @ dthesmar "Is Life Better in America’s Red States?"  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/is-life-better-in-americas-red-states.html?smid=tw-share  by @ richard_florida "What Stock Photos Of Victims Are Telling Us About Rape Culture"  http://www.xojane.com/issues/rape-victim-stock-photos  by @ xojanedotcom  ht @ xporte "How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors "  http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/03/how-to-get-published-in-an-academic-journal-top-tips-from-editors "Even when we have good intentions, we discriminate in ways big and small, as many studies have shown"  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/upshot/the-measuring-sticks-of-racial-bias-.html How TCP/IP eclipsed Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for networking  http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt  ht @ _pierre Jan, 4th #assa2015 "7th Annual Economics Humor Session"  https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/preliminary.php?search_string=beggs&#38;search_type=last_name&#38;search=Search  via  http://www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com/2015/01/01/economic-humor-2015-edition/via @ angry_prof - I asked Santa for a Research Grant- You still believe in Research Grants?"Happy New Tropical (or Anomalistic or Sidereal) Earth Orbital Time Period!"  http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/new_year_2014_how_astronomers_define_the_year.html  (actually, that was published last year)"The economics of stuff"  http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2015/01/the-economics-of-stuff.html  by @ franceswoolley Forthcoming  https://www.schneier.com/book-dg.html  "Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World" by @ schneierblog "The Scoring of America"  http://www.worldprivacyforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/WPF_Scoring_of_America_April2014_fs.pdf "Quadratic Voting"  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531  and  http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/  , ht @ tylercowen RT @ _Otiego  "The rich now have less leisure than the poor. What makes them stay in the office?"  http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21600989-why-rich-now-have-less-leisure-poor-nice-work-if-you-can-get-out“Stupid People Have No Idea How Stupid They Are” (a.k.a. the Dunning-Kruger Effect)  http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/john-cleese-on-stupidity-and-a-cornell-study.html   https://youtu.be/wvVPdyYeaQU "On the Measurement of Economic Tail Risk"  https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=288 "Environmental Protection, Rare Disasters, and Discount Rates"  https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/retrieve.php?pdfid=200"20 Years in the Professor Game: things I did right and things I did wrong"  http://lymanmuseum.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/20-years-in-the-professor-game-things-i-did-right-and-things-i-did-wrong/  by @ ta_wheeler "You May Believe You Are a Bayesian But You Are Probably Wrong"  http://www.rmm-journal.de/downloads/Article_Senn.pdf  by @ stephensenn "An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values"  http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/3/140216  by @ david_colquhoun "Statisticians: When We Teach, We Don’t Practice What We Preach "  http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/ChanceEthics2.pdf "Why continue to teach and use hypothesis testing?"  http://andrewgelman.com/2015/01/03/continue-teach-use-hypothesis-testing/ via @ TheAtlantic  "A study of studies shows why we tend to date people a lot like ourselves"  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/youre-just-like-me/383502/ in the U.S. "some states have more people living in prison than living on a college campus"  http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/2r5ej9/ocx/ "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint"  http://users.ha.uth.gr/tgd/pt0501/09/Tufte.pdf  by @ EdwardTufte  ht @ visionscarto would @ BarackObama  be cool even if @ PetesSuza  was not the official WH photographer?  http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/2014-photos  (ht @ sayseal  @ CBarsacq  )2015, "this could be the year of extinction for the climate-change denier" (hopefully)  http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/heat-is-on-abbott-government-over-climate-change-as-world-turns-20150102-12ghrj.html "The French Obsession With National Suicide"  http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/french-obsession-national-suicide  ht @ Denis_Gouaux MT @ pash22  "Cancer risks: Seven statistics that counter 'bad luck' claims over who gets disease"  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/cancer-risks-seven-statistics-that-counter-bad-luck-claims-over-who-gets-disease-9954655.html "Do Economic Sanctions Work?"  http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/do-economic-sanctions-work-by-kenneth-rogoff-2015-1  ht @ adelaigue "What We Know About Inequality (in 14 Charts)"  http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/01/01/what-we-know-about-inequality-in-14-charts/?mod=e2tw the true size of Antarctica  http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/581238main_USA_Antarctica_size-orig_full.jpgHow many fairies would fly around, if each fairy is born from the first laugh of a child and fairies were immortal?  http://what-if.xkcd.com/123/ "Point-and-Shoot Memories: The Influence of Taking Photos on Memory for a Museum Tour"  http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/2/396 Every day, between two and three thousand aircraft fly across the North Atlantic between Canada, the US and Europe  http://vimeo.com/98941796 "The simple math that explains why you may (or may not) get cancer"  http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/01/simple-math-explains-why-you-may-or-may-not-get-cancer "Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates "  http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/jan/02/bad-luck-bad-journalism-and-cancer-rates  by @ BobOHara  and @ GrrlScientist "Bad Luck of Random Mutations Plays Predominant Role in Cancer, Study Shows"  http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/78.abstract  via  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/bad_luck_of_random_mutations_play"In praise of complexity economics"  http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2014/12/in-praise-of-complexity-economics.html "How financially literate are women? An overview and new insights"  http://www.nber.org/papers/w20793 "How Fast You’ll Abandon Your New Year’s Resolutions "  http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-fast-youll-abandon-your-new-years-resolutions/  by @ monachalabi"Your Father’s Mathematics Teaching No Longer Works "  http://devlinsangle.blogspot.fr/2015/01/your-fathers-mathematics-teaching-no.html  by @ profkeithdevlin "The Google Trends of Popular New Year's Resolutions"  http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/106744181206/2015-is-just-a-day-away-a-lot-of-folks-make "Today Is The Most Hungover Day Of The Year"  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/31/youre-gonna-get-soooo-wasted-tonight-and-google-knows-it/   h"What Is the Point of Academic Books?"  http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/point-academic-books-publishing-writing-literature-96610/  ht @ cblatts "Why doctors ignore suffering"  http://qz.com/318309/why-doctors-ignore-suffering/ "A comparison of algorithms for the multivariate L¹ median"  http://www.statistik.tuwien.ac.at/forschung/CS/CS-2010-4complete.pdf  via @ deagiles's   http://davegiles.blogspot.fr/2014/12/the-multivariate-median.html "Why an orthodox economic model may not be the best guide for policy"  https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2004/09/pdf/straight.pdf  ht @ BrianCAlbrecht "The charitable world has become obsessed with 'metrics'"  http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/the-wall-street-takeover-of-charity  (via @ lginiger)  , just like everyone..."Revues, science citation Index, impact factor, open access : petite histoire..."  http://blog.educpros.fr/christophe-perales/2014/12/05/revues-science-citation-index-impact-factor-open-access-petite-histoire-de-list-a-lusage-de-toutes-les-generations/  ht @ CdesID Seen in X-Files and 24 "Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflection"  http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325 via @ miller_stephen  : US an interesting outlier http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/30/having-a-typical-day-in-2014-youre-not-alone/ "You're more likely to die on your birthday"  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/29/youre-more-likely-to-die-on-your-birthday/   http://www.annalsofepidemiology.org/article/S1047-2797%2812%2900110-X/abstract  ht @ MaxCRoser  see also  http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2404 true story"An NSA Big Graph experiment"  http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2013/slides/big_graph_nsa_rd_2013_56002v1.pdf "Graphical Models"  http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdfview_1/euclid.ss/1089808279 2014 souvenirs,  http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/living/gallery/2014-selfies-of-the-year/index.html  "look at me"RIP "Ulrich Beck has died"  http://www.dw.de/renowned-sociologist-ulrich-beck-has-died/a-18168851 Arno Rafael Minkkinen  https://vimeo.com/115264060  "Art Is Risk Made Visible""Language networks: When bigger isn't better"  http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/12/johnson-language-networks see?"2014 Kinda Sucked: A Look at Our Slow Descent Into Dystopia"  http://www.wired.com/2014/12/2014-year-in-dystopia/"Statistically Speaking, What Does the Average Startup Look Like?"  http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/statistically-speaking-what-does-the-average-startup-look-like/384019  ht @ DEAGiles "The Year in Review: Even More Fantastical Pseudo Economics"  http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2014/12/the-year-in-review-even-more-fantastical-pseudo-economics "HarperCollins omits Israel from maps for Mideast schools"  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/02/harpercollins-omits-israel-from-maps-for-mideast-schools-citing-local-preferences/  (see also  http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israel-wiped-off-the-map-in-Middle-East-atlases-386265  )"When does America drop dictators?"  http://ejt.sagepub.com/content/20/4/1072.full.pdf+html Belgium is hotter than ever!  http://www.maartenlambrechts.be/vis/warm2014/warm2014.html et un peu de lecture en français"De la surveillance de masse à la paranoïa généralisée" http://bugbrother.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/01/03/de-la-surveillance-de-masse-a-la-paranoia-generalisee/  par @ manhack  , passionant !via @Sciences_Avenir Le cancer serait dû à un manque de chance, vraiment ? Décryptage http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/sante/20150102.OBS9168/decryptage-le-cancer-serait-du-a-un-manque-de-chance-vraiment.html …"Universités: guerre ouverte chez les profs d’économie"  http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/actu/detail/article/universites-guerre-ouverte-chez-les-profs-d-economie-10392/  ht @ omalbanate  c'est décidément un "spectacle lamentable" (par @ anne__lavigne  )[free ebook] "Statistique Exploratoire Multidimensionnelle"  http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers11-10/010007837.pdf [free ebook]"Pour une révolution fiscale"  http://www.revolution-fiscale.fr/Pour_une_revolution_fiscale.pdf “Le bénéficiaire de la légion d’honneur n’est pas celui qui la reçoit mais celui qui la remet”  http://www.lesinrocks.com/2015/01/04/actualite/le-beneficiaire-de-la-legion-dhonneur-est-pas-celui-qui-la-recoit-mais-celui-qui-la-remet-11543724/  ht @ Mathieu2jean "Les réseaux sociaux ont confisqué la métaphore du blog"  http://blog.tcrouzet.com/2014/12/01/les-reseaux-sociaux-ont-confisque-la-metaphore-du-blog/  et (re)lire aussi  http://www.peripheries.net/article333.html  de @ monachollet via @ A_Moatti  Pour amateurs de numérologie, ce long commentaire à mon billet "De quoi 2015 est-il le nombre ?"  http://moatti.blogs.sciencesetavenir.fr/archive/2015/01/01/de-quoi-2015-est-il-le-nombre-23154.html via @ arretsurimages  "Mobilier anti-SDF : comment des artistes mènent la fronde"  http://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/2015-01-01/Mobilier-anti-SDF-comment-des-artistes-menent-la-fronde-id7340  (voir aussi  http://www.survivalgroup.org/anti-site.html  )quand la France sait être visionnaire, MT @ ordrespontane  *Les autoroutes de l’information*  http://www.emnps.net/pdf/1994/thery/chapitreI.html "Les empreintes de nos navigateurs nous identifient — et si on brouillait les pistes ?"  http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2014/12/22/si-on-brouillait-les-pistes-avec-amiunique "La jeunesse d'aujourd'hui est une «génération perdue» qui ne sait rien bricoler"  http://www.slate.fr/story/96273/jeunesse-generation-perdue-rien-reparer  (voir aussi  http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/4733  )"Pourquoi les pauvres votent-ils contre leurs intérêts ?"  http://www.scienceshumaines.com/pourquoi-les-pauvres-votent-ils-contre-leurs-interets_fr_28625.html#.VKcpuIhgv5c.twitter  via @ valatini  et @ paquin_stephane les métropoles françaises  http://www.lesechos.fr/journal20141231/lec1_france/0204029824879-onze-grandes-villes-accedent-au-rang-de-metropole-1079215.php#xtor=CS1-26  ht @ pierreageron via @ OCDE_fr  jamais en 30 ans le fossé entre riches et pauvres n’a été aussi prononcé  http://bit.ly/12lIZW4 lendemain de fêteRT @ Uneheuredepeine  "Refuser l'hébergement d'urgence : la rationalité de la rue"  http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2014/12/30/les-sdf-en-allant-en-centre-d-accueil-ont-peur-de-perdre-leur-place-dans-la-rue_1172022 Piketty et Villa ont la Légion d'Honneur  http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2015/01/01/modiano-piketty-et-mimie-mathy-dans-la-promotion-de-la-legion-d-honneur_4548255_3246.html  ht @ TotoroInParis  mais Piketty la refuse  http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2015/01/01/l-economiste-thomas-piketty-refuse-la-legion-d-honneur_4548309_3246.html  ht @ xmolenat "Trois leçons sur l’évaluation"  http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/2014/12/11/trois-lecons-sur-levaluation/  par @ nb58 "Comprendre l'étrange découpage des fuseaux horaires"  http://www.lemonde.fr/videos/video/2014/12/31/comprendre-l-etrange-decoupage-des-fuseaux-horaires-en-5-minutes_4546495_1669088.html   http://dai.ly/x2dfcoh "La photo est devenue un acte quasi terroriste. Le métro parisien est un cas d’école."  http://www.politis.fr/Photo-les-libertes-mises-a-mal-par,29511.html   http://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/551374679961640960/photo/1 Did I miss somehting interesting?