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Some extremely interesting posts, this week, again on the Reinhart-Rogoffing story (I do mention many posts and articles related to that story, because I think it is extremely informative about how research in Economics actually works...)"Understanding the NBER" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/… , "My take on Reinhart-Rogoff" http://fieldsfinance.blogspot.ca/…, "Is More Peer Reviewing the Answer?" http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/… by econjared via markthoma, "I Relied on Reinhart and Rogoff" http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/… or http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… among (so) many others,but (probably) more interesting, a series of posts on Excel,"What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors" http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/… via TeraEuro, "The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel" http://www.bbc.co.uk/… via LSPollack, "On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007" http://j.mp/ddaTeW  via newsycombinator ‏and msgbi, And a usual, a lost of interesting posts and articles, on other topics, e.g."Why does America lose its head over 'terror' but not daily gun deaths?" http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via sci2mrow and boraz"How Geography Explains the United States" http://foreignpolicy.com/…Volatile and Decentralized: The other side of "academic freedom" http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/… via newsycombinator and ljegouSee also"The discovery of the risk of global warming" http://scitation.aip.org/…"The Epiphenomenon of Low Risk" http://ashokarao.com/… via MarkThoma“Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science” http://elegant-technology.com/… rediscovering a 1898 classic ("It's a classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read" by Mark Twain, in Disappearance of Literature)on science, honours, and fairness http://cbc.ca/news/health/… via raulpacheco and saragoldrickrab"The Price is Right Problem" http://allendowney.blogspot.ca/..."Signs of unusual journalistic dedication" http://chrisblattman.com/?p=9657"fiscal stimulus is justified only when you’re up against the zero lower bound on interest rates" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/… see also 1. http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/… 2. http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/… 3. http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/… via mileskimball"Tracking who's hot and who's not presents an algorithmic challenge" https://americanscientist.org/issues/… see"Almost half of doctoral candidates fail to claim that their theses have contributed to knowledge" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/…"Lead abatement, alcohol taxes and 10 other ways to reduce the crime rate without annoying the NRA" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"Public’s Knowledge of Science and Technology" http://people-press.org/… via livescience and MathIsMyLife"The New York Times Highlights The Role of Structural Econometrics" http://greeneconomics.blogspot.ca/…"Why aren’t younger Americans driving anymore?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… see"Best and Worst Jobs of 2013" http://online.wsj.com/… damned, #1 Actuary #14 University Professor #18 Mathematician #20 Statistician"Life expectancy of celebrities, as inferred from obituaries." http://psmag.com/… via MargRev"What is the future of terrorism insurance?" http://politico.com/story/… via MargRev"Statistical Issues In Psychology And What Not To Do About Them" http://popsych.org/… via StanleySiegel"History Of All Asset Bubbles" http://zerohedge.com/news/… via Ian_Fraser see"Jane Austen as Game Theorist" http://nytimes.com/… (see also the actuarial point of view http://soa.org/library/journals/… )beaucronin's take on data skepticism, picking up a thread by mathbabedotorg and mikeloukides http://radar.oreilly.com/…"An Empirical Approach to Economic Intelligence in World War II" https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ipollak/…Late 20th century was warmest in 1,400 years http://rawstory.com/rs/… via GamineLise"Stock manipulation via twitter: The new frontier of securities regulation?" http://howtocrackanut.blogspot.co.uk/… via asanchezgraells "Broke Back Markets" http://lunchboxtrader.blogspot.ca/… on how financial markets handle (false) rumors via JaffrayW or (in French) http://courrierint.com/987796 seeAvec comme souvent plusieurs billets en français"L'obsolescence programmée, dérive de la société de consommation." http://cec-zev.eu/fileadmin/… via http://sosconso.blog.lemonde.fr/…"La recherche en économie: ce bien commun... » http://parisschoolofeconomics.eu/… (par Pierre-Yves Geoffard)[these] L'embauche, une histoire de relations ?" http://hal-univ-tlse2.archives-ouvertes.fr/… via http://www.rue89.com/rue89-eco/…"A qui appartient le savoir ?" http://lemonde.fr/sciences/…"Où vont les scientifiques qui poursuivent leurs recherches à l'étranger" http://courrierinternational.com/… via courrierinterblogs.rue89.com/americanmiroir/… " Etats-Unis : les usines ne tuent pas les gens exprès, n’est-ce pas ?""Ministres cigales" http://www.rue89.com/rue89-eco/… via coulmontJe découvre (avec beaucoup de retard, comme toujours) http://aboudjaffar.blog.lemonde.fr/  l'incroyable blog de AbouDjaffarDid I miss something ?