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Some writings worth reading"Comparing Minimum Wages" http://demos.org/blog/6/3/14/… (via http://forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/…)via @fryford "Experimentation with map annotation, legends &#38; cartograms." http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/… see"Economists Say War Is Bad for the Economy" http://ritholtz.com/blog/2014/06/… by @ritholtzhow far away from the office could I get in 15 minutes? (via http://mapnificent.net/montreal/…)and another one, how far away from the office could I get in 10 minutes? (http://flaviogortana.com/isoscope/  ht @goulu)(including 10min if you want to walk)"A Fairer World Cup Draw" http://nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/… ht @matamix, via @stevenstrogatz "A probabilistic simulator for the upcoming soccer (football) World Cup" http://worldcup-simulator.de  and "Scoring: A National Style Guide" http://online.wsj.com/articles/… "what goals show about team strategy" ht @laurenfosternyc and @ECONdailycharts's "probability ball" http://econ.st/1mTUUyZ  calculates each team's odds of winning the World Cup"Are you surrounded by fools? Are you the only reasonable person around?" http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/… "maybe you’re the one with the jerkitude""How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution" http://npr.org/blogs/krulwich/… (the maths can be found in an old post http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2231 )"The Stanley Cup Center of Gravity Is Somewhere in Lake Huron" http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab… by @ritchiesking see"Tiananmen Square, Then and Now" http://theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/06/ … and "China bans all internet searches for ‘big yellow duck'..." http://dailymail.co.uk/news/article…"Neutralité du net" http://dailymotion.com/video/x1ybocf… via http://numerama.com/magazine/29576…and "John Oliver may have crashed the FCC’s comments system" http://avclub.com/article/…"vocal ranges of some 'artists'" http://concerthotels.com/worlds…"All U.S. tornadoes and tropical systems from 1950-2013 by month""40 maps that explain the internet" http://vox.com/a/internet-maps  ht @DiegoKuonen interesting, indeed"Effects of El Niño on Global Precipitation" http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/  (via http://just--maps.tumblr.com/ ) see"A Linguist On the Story of Gendered Pronouns" http://the-toast.net/2014/06/…"How to Turn A “Good” Proposal Into An “Excellent” Proposal in Eight Admittedly Arduous Steps" http://hopejahrensurecanwrite.com/2014/06/02… by @HopeJahren"the distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle or end of words" http://prooffreader.com/2014/05/… see"The Overwhelming Persistence of Neighborhood Poverty" http://citylab.com/politics/2014/05/ … "For all the debate, gentrification is far from the norm"Interesting exercise on conditional probabilities (via @WTFViz, meaning that there is some problem here, for those who, indeed, cannot do the maths)"Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don’t respect them" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang… by @CapitalWeather, "Why Have Female Hurricanes Killed More People Than Male Ones?" http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014… by @edyong209 and see finally "Are girl hurricanes less scary?" http://statschat.org.nz/2014/… by @tslumley ht @zentree"Not to brag or anything, but I probably have more Twitter followers than you." http://latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/… "I purchased many of them" by @gilgul"Face-it, I am your statistically significant other" http://xkcd.com/539/ et un peu de lecture en français"Stiglitz contre Kessler sur le welfare state: le dialogue impossible" http://latribune.fr/actualites/economie…"Dans les arcanes de la médaille Fields" https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/…A l'université, 68,1% des étudiants déclarent ne plus assister aux cours «car l’enseignant n’est pas une plus-value» http://issuu.com/unef/… (et histoire d'être un peu cynique, comme disait @xavierfc il y a probablement "autant d'enseignants déclarent préférer faire cours à leur chat «car l'étudiant n'est pas une plus-value»")"Démasquer les faux avis du Web" https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/…OGM, et exclusions des contrats d'assurance http://reporterre.net/spip.php?article5904 …"Populisme et postmodernité" http://lherbentrelespaves.fr/index.php?post/2014/05/30/…« Il y a deux manières de conquérir et d'asservir une nation: l'une par l'épée, l'autre par la dette. » (John Adams) http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/eric-beaudry/…"Un blog est un réseau" http://martingrandjean.ch/un-blog-est-un-reseau… par @GrandjeanMartinDid I miss something?