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Some writings worth reading"How Can the Opinions of 1,000 People Possibly Represent the Entire Country?" http://nytimes.com/2014/04/25/… by @megtbnyt see also "Contrary to appearances, online reviews reflect the opinions of the few" http://nautil.us/issue…"How the world failed on climate change" http://vox.com/2014/4/22/…"On umbrellas causing rain" http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/…"Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds" http://blogs.nature.com/news/… ht @sc_k @lauramclay"Brando never did crunches. Al Pacino didn't slurp protein shakes. Cary Grant had never even heard of burpees..." http://mensjournal.com/magazine/…"Evasive Shareholder Meetings" http://nber.org/19991… via http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/ …"Being a college professor isn't really a cushy job" http://vox.com/2014/4/24/5647300/… (one more time, ht @lauramclay)"Narrative Framing In Online Restaurant Reviews" http://firstmonday.org/ojs/…"Game Of Thrones" http://newyorker.com/reporting/… "How airlines woo the one per cent""Student evaluations of professors aren’t just biased and absurd—they don’t even work" http://slate.com/articles/life/education…...this is because student evaluations are useless. Ostensibly, SETs give us valuable feedback on our teaching effectiveness, factor importantly into our career trajectories, and provide accountability to the institution that employs us. None of this, however, is true. First, evaluations promote sucking up to customers—I’m sorry, students—often at the expense of teaching effectiveness. A recent comprehensive study, for example, showed that professors get good evaluations by teaching to the test and being entertaining. Student learning hardly factors in, because (surprise) students are often poor judges of what will help them learn. (They are, instead, excellent judges of how to get an easy A.) Asking students to evaluate their professors anonymously is like Trader Joe’s soliciting Yelp reviews from a shoplifter. Indeed, some of the worst evaluations I ever got were for hands-down the best teaching I’ve ever done—which I measured by the revolutionary metric of “the students were way better at German walking out than they were walking in.” Alas, this took work, and some of the Kinder attempted to stage a mutiny on evaluation day. Little did they know that a “too much work” dig is the #humblebrag of the academy—and, indeed, anything less on evals is seen as pandering at best, and out-and-out grade-bribery at worst. [to be continued...]"Take a trip through Kowloon Walled City, once the densest place on earth" http://on.wsj.com/.... via @WSJAsia"What Big Data Can’t Tell Us About Health Care" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/… ht @skydylanrobbinsSeptember 11, 2001, FAA Closure of US Airspace https://youtu.be/bo1ZtpKqlYw "The interpretation of IPCC probabilistic statements around the world" http://nature.com/nclimate/… via http://arstechnica.com/science/…"Rank influences human sex differences in dyadic cooperation" http://cell.com/current-biology/… via http://nature.com/naturejobs/…"Knowing and governing cities through open and big data" http://jll.com/Research/jll… by @robkitchin"Where people run?" http://flowingdata.com/2014/… e.g. in Paris"Is Google Too Big to Trust?" https://schneier.com/blog/archives… about http://infoworld.com/239815 "Show Them the Money" http://foreignaffairs.com/articles/141214/… "Why Giving Cash Helps Alleviate Poverty" by @cblatts ht @_gandhara"Maps of baseball's borderlines" http://nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/24/… ht @Loic_Ravenel"What Makes the Best Infographics So Convincing" http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/0…"The Lasso: A Brief Review" by Rob Tibshirani http://mathtube.org/lecture/video… via @deagiles"Where Income Is Higher, Life Spans Are Longer" http://nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/15/… seebeards are hot http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/… "Negative frequency-dependent preferences and variation in male facial hair" ht http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualite/…"Study retracted because it was submitted without permission of most of the authors" http://retractionwatch.com/2014/04/… via http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualite…"How Americans Hate Each Other" http://priceonomics.com/how…"10 reasons to switch to ggplot" http://mandymejia.wordpress.com/2013/11… by @mandyfmejia ht @jabawack(Honest) Methods Section http://phdcomics.com/1700 … (ht @marc_rr) another great @phdcomics"What is open access?" http://blog.f1000research.com/…"Wall Street Makes More in Bonuses Than Every American Combined Working on Minimum Wage " http://policymic.com/articles/85261/… ht @callout4"15 ways to tell if that science news story is hogwash" http://vox.com/2014/4/22/5… by @susannahlocke"The Oligarchy Fallacy" http://project-syndicate.org/commentary/… via @econoclastevia @JustinWolfers "American incomes are falling behind other countries, except at the top" http://nytimes.com/upshot/…"Future big data analysts will know everything you did today" http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/18/ …"How Urban Anonymity Disappears When All Data Is Tracked" http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/…"Big Data: Profitability, Potential and Problems in Banking" http://thefinancialbrand.com/38801…"Digital literacy across the curriculum" http://futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/…"Cuts and red tape are gagging US and Canadian science" http://newscientist.com/article/mg22229640.200…"Resurrecting the Third Variable: A Critique of Pearl's Causal Analysis of Simpson's Paradox" http://tandfonline.com/doi/… and http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/3735 "A survey of authors publishing in four megajournals" https://peerj.com/articles/365/ "How Did Canada's Middle Class Get So Rich?" http://theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/how…"Seven forecasting blogs" http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/ … (or Eight, if you include @robjhyndman's amazing http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/ )"Surnames and Social Mobility" http://neilcummins.com/Papers/…"Facebook Profiles Can Predict Work Performance" http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/ …"Grads hit with defaults when co-signers die, go bankrupt" http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/22/ …"What Google and NY Times’ Tom Friedman Get Right About the Purpose of Higher Education" http://cathydavidson.com/blog/… by @CathyNDavidson"You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to find Google alarming" http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/ …et un peu de lecture en français,"Les étudiants français au Québec inquiets pour leur porte-monnaie" http://liberation.fr/societe/2014 …"Empire américain et bulle du crédit : indissociables" http://la-chronique-agora.com/empire…"Visualiser le réseau des affinités littéraires" http://martingrandjean.ch/… par @GrandjeanMartin"L'euro est un formidable succès" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/2014/04/24/l… j'aime la vision cynique d'@adelaigue"Un doctorat pour rien?" http://quartierlibre.ca/un… dans le journal @quartierlibre des étudiants de @UMontreal"L'innovation et le numérique" http://plus.franceculture.fr/l-innovation… par Michel Serres"Ainsi va la construction artificielle, par sondage, de l’“opinion publique“..." http://acrimed.org/article4321…"Etre tout le temps connecté : marque d’une organisation défaillante" http://duperrin.com/2014/04/17/…"Plus que l'apprentissage du code, c'est la sensibilisation aux cultures numériques qui est importante" http://rslnmag.fr/post/2014/04/16/Frederic … par @Geekelle"Plus que jamais, Carnaval est une hérésie" http://cqfd-journal.org/Plus …Did I miss something?