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One very interesting - not to say disturbing - post, this week"2012 — The year of bank fraud" on felixsalmon's blog blogs.reuters.com/…and as usual, a lot of interesting posts and articles, here and there,on "dyslexia in the graduate community" timeshighereducation.co.uk …"Studying Economics Turns You Into a Liar" theatlantic.com/… by jhweissmann via economicsinfo the working paper is uam.es/…"Why aren’t there more retractions in business and economics journals?" retractionwatch.wordpress.com/… see also aebrjournal.org/…"Critique of Connectivism" andycoverdale/… by andycoverdaleInfographics (en English) "25 mejores países del Mundo en ciencia" ticsyformacion.com/…on the "adequacy of scholars' training" timeshighereducation.co.uk/ … "many are little or no better qualified than those they are teaching""The global diversity of birds in space and time" nature.com/…"Banks are [officially] above the law" financialsense.com/…Excel and operational risk wiscnews.com/… "operator error' resulted in a spreadsheet underestimating the total cost" (about $400,0000) another example of operational risk knoxnews.com/ … "one account wasn't correctly linked into an Excel spreadsheet" want more spreadsheet operation risk stories ? eusprig.org/…"What if We Made Fewer Ph.D.'s?" chronicle.com/…is that legitimate to use probability in trials ? maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/… by Laurence Tribe in 1971thomas.loc.gov/… when a "breakthrough in mathematics in the theory of vector bundles" is discussed at House of Representatives "Assault Deaths Within the United States" on kjhealy's blog kieranhealy.org/… via obouba"November 2012 was the fifth-warmest November since records began in 1880" ncdc.noaa.gov/ …"After Libor, arguments against financial regulation are a joke" newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/…"Early death more likely in solo artists" bbc.co.uk/news/…via PolluxeBlog and "Dying to be famous: retrospective cohort study of rock and pop star mortality" bmjopen.bmj.com/…"Credibility Ranking of Tweets during High Impact Events" precog.iiitd.edu.in/...  via ritholtz"Why did no one see the crisis coming?" skidelskyr.com/… "Models Behaving Badly" by Robert Skidelsky"In a World Full of Risk, Why Are Investors So Calm?" businessweek.com/…"some students enrol in economics because they want to study something that seems useful, but..." by franceswoolley worthwhile.typepad.com…"R in Insurance Conference", London, 15 July 2013 lamages.blogspot.co.uk/…"Surviving a plane crash is surprisingly common" boingboing.net/… "look at only the worst accidents the overall survival rate was 76.6%""Could machine-learning algorithms help debunk Twitter rumors before they spread?" slate.com/… via ThaddeusKTSim and lauram"amazing ignorant people" http://dilbert.com/...  "who don't understand economics, but talk about it anyway""Quitting email is good for your heart and makes you more productive" ics.uci.edu/… via dailymail.co.uk/ …"The scam busters" economist.com/news/ … "How antitrust economists are getting better at spotting cartels" via bigdata"Why don’t bad ideas ever die?" washingtonpost.com/ … by ritholtz"The costs of extreme weather for the European transport systems" vtt.fi/inf/…"BMJ's Christmas issue" bmj.com/…"Why Rudolph’s nose is red" via arstechnica.com/… and bmj.com/… "The tooth fairy and malpractice""Possible Role of Resource Requirements and Academic Career-Choice Risk on Gender Differences" plosone.org/… via SH_lelaboin the U.K. "£9,000 fees putting a generation of boys off university " independent.co.uk/… see also guardian.co.uk/…"Predictive modeling is increasingly proving its worth in the (P&#38;C) insurance industry" towerswatson.com/…"Global Burden of Disease Study 2010" healthmetricsandevaluation.org/... e.g. cancer death rates"Life decisions -marriage, divorce, attending university- may be influenced by how long people believe thy will live" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/..."Statisticians: Guardians of Democracy" sph.umich.edu/… via community.amstat.org/… and stat110"No, dogs don't have to be bilingual in Montreal" cbc.ca/news/…Toujours quelques documents en français,En France, "capital scolaire des membres des comités exécutifs du CAC 40" opesc.org/analyses/… (tenant compte du cumul)"Salaire des enseignants (primaire et secondaire) européens ?" lemonde.fr/societe/…"Mes conditions de travail" dans une université française par coulmont nouvel épisode coulmont.com/…"les banques échappent-elles à tout contrôle démocratique ?" atlantico.fr/…« Messieurs les banquiers, à vous de couper les premiers » sur l'excellent blog de Karine_Berger alternatives-economiques.fr/…séparation des banques, via mediatheque.lesoir.be/...