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A series of writings worth reading, discovered here and there, on the internet,"Florida Keys considering drones to fight mosquitoes" http://reuters.com/article/ … (so am I !)Stallings (1965) "How Not To Prove the Poincare Conjecture" http://math.berkeley.edu/~stall/…"Need to sell a Harley..." via FabSintes and http://huffingtonpost.com/… (see also http://ingunowners.com/forums/...)"The Two Cultures of Mathematics" https://dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/… by W.T. Gowers"the same climate model produces different results when run on different computers" http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.nz/… via DavidMBrooks see also  http://wattsupwiththat.com/…  via FrenchRedFrog[p value] "Surely God loves the .06 nearly as much as the .05" http://wiki.ubc.ca/…"A Mathematician's Lament" by P. Lockhart http://maa.org/external_archive/… vs "A Mathematician’s Apology" by G.H. Hardy http://math.ualberta.ca/mss/…"Kids Can't Use Computers... And This Is Why It Should Worry You" http://coding2learn.org/blog/…"Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Offer to teach a man to code and you’re kind of a jerk." http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…"What does peer review mean when applied to computer code?" http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/…"Where non-English language is spoken in the US" http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/… seeThe NSA is the " largest employer of mathematicians on the planet." http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/… via crampell and tomroud[Bayes] http://xianblog.wordpress.com/… "on noninformative priors""World's Biggest Data Breaches" http://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/… (it's a bit scary, I know)"Google search suggestions by country" http://noahveltman.com/suggest/ "Welcome to the Age of Denial" http://nytimes.com/… "Our society no longer values the integrity of scientific fact...." via tomroud[free ebook] "Causal Inference" http://hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/files/… by Hernán and Robins"The problem with algorithms: magnifying misbehaviour" http://theguardian.com/news/datablog/… via blakehounshell"On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs" http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/  via http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/…"Trends in the Analytics Job Market" http://r4stats.com/2013/…"Stories and numbers about dangers" http://thenormchronicles.com/ "Goldman Issues Mistaken Options Orders, Roiling Prices" http://online.wsj.com/article/…"The Point of Economath" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/…"A few words about math" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/… a "fairly caustic meditation on the role of math in economics" by Noahpinion"On being ‘right’ in science" http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/… by choldgraf via ritholtz"The Climate May Be Changing, but the IPCC Remains the Same" http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/… by dbiello via sciamblogs"Reducing the Hype Around Big Data" http://wired.com/wiredscience/… via wiredsciblogs and arbesman[U.S. Map] "What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With?" http://buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/… via ilovecharts see"The sciences of science communication" http://pnas.org/content/… via edyong209"It’s common to misinterpret that low correlation as a sign of poor prediction." http://andrewgelman.com/…"Have We Evolved to Be Nasty or Nice?" http://online.wsj.com/article/…"Researchers can get visibility and connections by putting their data online" http://nature.com/naturejobs/…"What's My Real Cancer Risk? When Online Calculators Don't Compute" http://npr.org/blogs/health/…"Academic martial arts: Proposing and defending your Ph.D." http://matt.might.net/articles/… via lauramclay"Think Big Data Is All Hype? You’re Not Alone" http://allthingsd.com/20130819/… by ahess247"Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming" (and human activity) http://nytimes.com/…"You might be working with big data if O(n) vs O(n log n) makes a big difference" (says JohnDCook)Why benefit spending is rising? http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "Corporations get away with crappy wages government has to make up the rest" moorehnavec un peu de lecture en français,[recherche] "La dictature du 'Publier ou périr' " http://sauvonsluniversite.com/sp… et "Le piège de la gratuité" http://sauvonsluniversite.com/sp…"Nombre de doctorats (délivrés) en France" via nholzschuch et http://ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/var/… cf"Recherche publique, revues privées", par Richard Monvoisin http://monde-diplomatique.fr/48501  via mdiploDid I miss something?