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Some writings worth reading, published somewhere else,"R remains popular with the PhDs of data science, but as data moves mainstream, Python is taking over" http://readwrite.com/2013/11/25/… via @RLesur"Australia Would Like You To Shove Your Climate Change Denial Up Your Ignorant Arse" http://rudepundit.blogspot.ca/2014/ …"Deconstructing the Map" http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/passages/… via @VisionsCartovia @Amazing_Maps "Temperature" http://cci-reanalyzer.org  seesee also NYC under the snow (via http://distilleryimage11.ak.instagram.com/...)"The Perils of Peer Effects" http://papers.ssrn.com/2372732 … HT @cblatts"Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research" http://sciencemag.org/content/343/6166/30 …"Sure, I’m Behind Bars, But I’m Still Morally Superior to You" http://psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/…"Which of these six styles of dress is most appropriate for women?" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/… see http://mevs.org/files/tmp/…"Why drugs are expensive?" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/… "It’s the science, stupid.""How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet" http://wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/ …"Tweeting "happy new year" around the world" http://twitter.github.io/… via @flowingdata see"Why don't French books sell abroad?" http://bbc.co.uk/news/m…"I’m against inequality. (But what is equality, anyway?)" http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/im… …"Nassim Taleb used to be my hero" http://theweek.com/article/index/254694/… "But today, he's just plain wrong" see also "Of brains and balls: Nassim Taleb's macro bets" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/… by @Noahpinion"Facial hair trends over time" http://uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/… via http://flowingdata.com/2014… (via @VisionsCarto) cf"What happened to US life expectancy?" http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article… via http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/… see"Evolution of fairness in the one-shot anonymous Ultimatum Game" http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~drand/… via @stevenstrogatz"How Nobel-Winning Economic Theories Can Help Your Online Dating" http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/01…“Does immigration mean ‘France is over’ ?” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/0…"Welcome to today's job market!" via @conchobardob, @TheBubbleBubble and @vfulco"World map of difference between solar time and clock time" (via http://imgur.com/8IFLFoJ , with some interpretation problems, since the difference from apparent solar time varies over the year)"The duration of marriages" http://cargocollective.com/samuelgranados/… seein the U.S. "by age 23 about 49% of Black males have been arrested (vs. about 38% for White males)" http://cad.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/…"Econ Jobs, Money, Love" http://insidehighered.com/news… via @tylercowen"Fascinating citation clusters in Eco" http://aalto-econ.fi/tervio… via @SylvainCF and @mileskimballavec peu de lecture en français ces derniers jours,"Pourquoi Internet aime-t-il à ce point les cartes" http://franceculture.fr/emission-ce-qui-nous-arrive…"La SNCF présente ses vœux pour 2013 et s’excuse de ce retard" http://legorafi.fr/2014/01/06/la-sncf …Did I miss something interesting? (apart from the awesome http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EV3JTAY)