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Holidays are over(Source: miguelmarquezoutside.com). Some writings worth reading, here and there"Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease" http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3037/rr/646643 … ht @wouterhavinga"Pay Attention To Your 'Extreme Consumers'" http://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2014/07/14/pay-attention-to-your-extreme-consumers/ …"One apartment’s Wi-Fi dead zones, mapped with a physics equation" http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/mapping-wi-fi-dead-zones-with-physics-and-gifs/ …"2014 : What scientific idea is ready for retirement?" http://edge.org/response-detail/25462 … "Scientific Inference Via Statistical Rituals"“Yes you dolt, diseases can expand exponentially and Ebola just may” http://chrisblattman.com/2014/08/28/yes-dolt-diseases-can-expand-exponentially-ebola-just-may/ … by @cblattsMT @influenza_bio "What if Ebola cases continue to grow in Liberia as they have since July 1, 2014?""scientists have traditionally been male, men are more likely to fit into preconceived notions of what a scientist is" http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-su-women-in-mathematics-20140826-story.html …"Status of the World's Nuclear Power Reactors" (via http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2egnm6/the_status_of_the_worlds_nuclear_power_reactors_oc/ … see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations …)"Replication and reputation: Whose career matters?" http://deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/replication-and-reputation-whose-career.html …"Why the $#&#38;@! Did Your Airline Cancel Your Flight Today?" http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119252/airline-cancellations-arent-save-money-serve-customers … "They Had a Very Good Reason" by @ProfAmyCohn"Art X Smart by Kim Dong-Kyu" http://artxsmart.tumblr.com/  e.g."Social sciences suffer from severe publication bias" http://www.nature.com/news/social-sciences-suffer-from-severe-publication-bias-1.15787 … ht @JustinWolfers"Does It Help To Know History?" http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/help-know-history …"The Best Way to Hold a Burger" http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/08/29/the-best-way-to-hold-a-burger-according-to-science/ … "(According to Science!)""Game Theory, Team Reasoning, and a Bit about Sport Too" http://www.davidpapineau.co.uk/blog/game-theory-team-reasoning-and-a-bit-about-sport-too …No researcher could read all papers in their field but machines can make discoveries by mining scientific literature http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329844.000-supercomputers-make-discoveries-that-scientists-cant.html …"40 maps that explain the Roman Empire" http://www.vox.com/2014/8/19/5942585/40-maps-that-explain-the-roman-empire … quite interesting!"What Wellesley learned when it stopped giving out so many A's" http://www.vox.com/2014/8/26/6067175/grade-inflation-college-wellesley … by @libbyanelson"The peril of hipster economics" http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/05/peril-hipster-economics-2014527105521158885.html … by @sarahkendziorMT @GlezClarisa "How men and women differ when it comes to applying for jobs" http://s.hbr.org/1AR5v5I  via @HarvardBizButterflies of North America (from http://www.artsider.com/people/HellofromtheMoon/18156-butterflies-of-north-america …)the best and worst countries for journalists http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/war/conflict-zones/140821/maps-world-press-freedom-index … and how much has changed in recent years[dataviz] Visualizing a Facebook conversation between two people http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2dy0e3/occritique_visualizing_a_facebook_conversation/ …"Why Airline Maps All Look the Same" http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/08/why-airline-maps-all-look-the-same/375692/ … by @markbyrnes525"Lies, damned lies and maps" http://blog.geogarage.com/2014/08/lies-damned-lies-and-maps.html …California Drougts http://xkcd.com/1410/ the population of 2013 graduates in the United States broken down by field of study http://www.nefariousplots.com/figures/9#f-level=total&#38;f-field=27&#38;f-autocolor=true&#38;f-scalearea=true … eg maths"an actuary… is a sort of super statistician who studies lifespans, average investment yields…" http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/business/workers-not-to-blame-for-quebec-pension-problem-don-pittis-1.2742698 … ht @J_P_Boucher"Using Open Data to Predict When You Might Get Your Next Parking Ticket" http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/76937212765/using-open-data-to-predict-when-you-might-get-your-next …RT @conradhackett "These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge"et un peu de lecture en français"L'open data est-il un leurre politique ?" https://www.mysciencework.com/news/11398/l-open-data-est-il-un-leurre-politique …?"Sécheresse aux USA : 18 alarmantes photos avant/après" http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/galeries-photos/photo/20140827.OBS7277/grand-format-secheresse-aux-usa-18-alarmantes-photos-avant-apres.html …RT @francetvinfo "Inégalitaire", "trop académique", "pas pertinent"... l'OCDE blâme le système scolaire français http://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/education/inegalitaire-trop-academique-pas-pertinent-l-ocde-blame-le-systeme-scolaire-francais_680843.html …"Le bitcoin, frappé au coin du mauvais sens" http://legizmoblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/le-bitcoin-frappe-au-coin-du-mauvais.html … par @Anne__Lavigne"Accidentologie routière (à vélo) à Paris" http://www.spallian.com/?myportfoliotype=accidentologie-routiere-a-velo-a-paris …"Pourquoi il faut oser le crowdfunding pour financer la recherche publique ?" http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/cercle-107970-pourquoi-il-faut-oser-le-crowdfunding-pour-financer-la-recherche-publique-1037238.php … par @pareto35MT @latrive Nbre d'années de salaire pour acheter une maison de 70m2: France 7.9 Danemark 2.1 https://ingridnc.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/deloitte-property-index-2013.pdf …Did I miss something?