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A series of posts (on blogs) elsewhere,"Young researchers vs. peer reviewing"http:// blogs.nature.com/houseof"Scholarly publishing is broken" by  digiwonk "Is it time to consider guerrilla self-publishing?" http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial …"How journals manipulate the importance of research"http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial …"Bankers and neuroscience of greed" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/ … "unconstrained power of bankers acts like a drug on their brains' reward systems""Where to Live (in the U.S.) to Avoid a Natural Disaster" http://visual.ly/where-live-avo …"When the Crowd Isn’t Wise" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/sun …"What is the intuitive relationship between singular value decomposition and principal component analysis ?"http:// math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagg…"Is linear regression unethical ?..." http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/is-lin … "...in that it gives more weight to cases that are far from the average""Do 'prestigious' journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world" http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/7983 "We’ve been brainwashed" http://www.salon.com/2012/06/14/wev … "It's no accident that Americans widely underestimate inequality""University applications drop amid higher tuition fees"http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012 … "Total number of applicants to British universities drops 7.7%"“I got more data, my model is more refined, but my estimator is getting worse! Am I just dumb?” http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/xiao-l …"struggles regarding personal genomic data" http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience … "legal issues, insurance costs and cultural concerns" by girlscientist"Racial Composition of Jury Pool Strongly Affects Probability of Convicting Black Defendants" via http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-racial …"Economists have a mystique among social scientists because they know mathematics" http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/j …  "Statisticians recommend graphics but often use tables to present their own research results" http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/resear … via therealprotonk"News flash: Probability and statistics are hard to understand"http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/news-f …StatModeling's answer tohttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 …surprising thing in economic (academic) journals is that you see tables with p-values but rarely graphs  http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 … cc felixsalmon"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Data"http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/201 …ou en francais,"Financement du supérieur : faut-il faire payer les étudiants ?"http://www. ofce.sciences-po.fr/blog/?p=2078  avec le document de travailhttp://www. ofce.sciences-po.fr/pdf/dtravail/ …portrait d'un Data Geeks par @datapublica http://www.data-publica.com/content/2012/0 …"Tous les économistes devraient s'inquiéter de l'état de la macro" (économie) par adelaigue http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/dotclear/index …"Universités françaises : autonomes mais en crise"http://www. marianne2.fr/Universites-fr …"Faillite" des universités? "pas de commentaire" chez la ministre Fioraso http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/soci … i.e 1/4 des universités http://www.  lemonde.fr/enseignement-s …"Prêts étudiants aux Etats-Unis : les nouveaux "subprimes" ?" http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/arti …"L’industrie du divertissement est une bande de pillards. Plaidoyer pour la suppression du droit d’auteur" http://politiquedunetz.sploing.fr/2012/04/lindus … via sh_lelabo 