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Some posts and articles worth reading"Why Innocent People Plead Guilty" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-innocent-people-plead-guilty/ …a bot that grabs a random word and draws random lines until OCRad.js recognizes it as the word http://reverseocr.tumblr.com/ "Using Algorithms to Predict the Next Outbreak" http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/11/using-algorithms-to-predict-the-next-outbreak/…"seafood has a long way to go before it can become 'the new chicken'" http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304688104579465721070784980 … indeedvia @JohnQuiggin "Gene Fama has plans to become an actual zombie economist (see last line)" http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/magazine/fall-2013/a-brief-history-of-finance …"Predictability of Extreme Events in Social Media" http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0111506 … by @egaltmann"Bracing for the Falls of an Aging Nation" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/03/health/bracing-for-the-falls-of-an-aging-nation.html?smid=tw-nytimes&#38;_r=1 …"Is wasting time on the internet actually good for you?" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/emma-brockes-column/2014/nov/02/wasting-time-on-the-internet-good-for-you …physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs#t=90 … "what happens when a bowling ball and a feather are dropped together" (like in physics books)"Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers?" http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-americas-police-have-become-too-militarised-cops-or-soldiers …"Why academics feel overworked" http://pgbovine.net/why-academics-feel-overworked.htm … "(my totally unscientific folk theory)" by @pgbovine"Income Levels in Manhattan" http://www.moonshadowmobile.com/2014/10/income-levels-in-manhattan/ … ht @visionscarto"A plutocratic proposal" http://mosaicscience.com/story/plutocratic-proposal …omg, awesome http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111215/srep00196/full/srep00196.html … "Flavor network and the principles of food pairing""Why Scientists are Seen as Competent but Untrustworthy (and Why it Matters)" http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2014/10/06/why-scientists-are-seen-as-competent-but-untrustworthy-and-why-it-matters/ … ht @DevilleSy"Programming languages - salaries and demand" https://msgooroo.com/GoorooTHINK/Article/16225/Programming-languages--salaries-and-demand-October-2014/17081#.VFc1WNb4wuE …loans, "Perception vs. reality" via @QuickenLoans"What Have Economists Ever Done for Us?" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-02/what-have-economists-ever-done-for-us … by @clive_crook"Does Skin and Hair Tone Affect Disney Princesses Merchandise Sales?" http://jezebel.com/who-is-the-most-popular-disney-princess-on-ebay-1568896937 …"Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried" http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/24/why-women-leave-academia?CMP=share_btn_tw … by @curtrice ht @Dr_Mel_Thomson"Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia" http://notabilia.net/ "Women with more children are more productive at work" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/30/study-women-with-more-children-are-more-productive-at-work/ … ht @lauramclay"immigrants calling home drive a major portion of telephone traffic" via @foxjust's http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/11/the-world-is-still-not-flat/ …"New Players In The NBA: Big Data" http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/11/02/360943860/new-players-in-the-nba-big-data-user-controlled-jumbotrons … ht @bobehayes (following https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/433304225242574848 …)"La cartographie radicale selon Philippe Rekacewicz" (aka @visionscarto) http://pierrickauger.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/la-cartographie-radicale-selon-philippe-rekacewicz/ … ht @JeanAbbiateci + http://bambuser.com/v/5039757I definitively need to buy a smartphone (via @9gag) it's totally worth it"Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms " http://www.magesblog.com/2014/10/visualising-seasonality-of-atlantic.html … by @MarkusGesmanntext bubbles http://datalooksdope.com/text-bubbles/  the size of each bubble reflects the number of characters in each wordpaper that brings into question the idea that elections represent the "will of the people" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.8796.pdf …"America’s top fears: Public speaking, heights and bugs" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/30/clowns-are-twice-as-scary-to-democrats-as-they-are-to-republicans/ … hy @conradhackett"Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens.pdf …"Exponential Outbreaks: The Mathematics of Epidemics" http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/exponential-outbreaks-the-mathematics-of-epidemics/?emc=edit_ln_20141106&#38;nl=learning&#38;nlid=66942211&#38;_r=1 … by @mrhonner"Ketchup Isn't The King Of American Condiments. Mayonnaise Is." http://qz.com/172019/ketchup-isnt-the-king-of-american-condiments-mayonnaise-is/ …via  @mikeplutaMoore's Law for BigData The amount of nonsense packed into the term "BigData" doubles approximately every two years"We Got 99 Problems but Fraud Ain’t One" http://rotoquant.com/2014/10/31/we-got-99-problems-but-fraud-aint-one/ …busy people (via @naholyr and @miguelinlas3)et un peu de lecture en françaisEn France, "Quand les grandes écoles se transforment en petites universités" http://focuscampus.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/10/31/quand-les-grandes-ecoles-se-transforment-en-petites-universites/ …"Une France contre l’autre ?" http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Une-France-contre-l-autre.html …"De la meute à l’émeute" http://blogs.afp.com/makingof/?post/media-scrum-de-la-meute-a-l-emeute …"Cinquante murs à abattre" numéro spécial de @courrierinter en kiosque demain http://courrierint.com/node/1174350  avec @Geopolitics2020 dedansRT @courrierinter "Cartographie - La carte des murs du monde" http://courrierint.com/node/1174351"Il est temps de réfléchir à la biodiversité que nous voulons" http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2014/11/05/il-est-temps-de-reflechir-a-la-biodiversite-que-nous-voulons_4518424_1650684.html …"Le Jeu de Cartes des Situationnistes" http://www.lecfc.fr/new/articles/204-article-7.pdf … (via @visionscarto"Frontière : le mur des sons" http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2014/02/20/frontiere-le-mur-des-sons … poke @geopolitics2020 @visionscarto cf https://youtu.be/Y3yRszBeUb8"Cartographes, fous de données, profs de géo : les comptes à suivre" http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/11/02/cartographes-fous-donnees-profs-geo-les-comptes-a-suivre-255830 … ht @Annnouchka"Trisomie 21 : la menace économique d’un dépistage à deux vitesses" http://www.slate.fr/story/94287/trisomie-21-depistage-deux-vitesses …"Mort obscène" http://www.observatoire-des-sondages.org/mort-obscene Did I miss something interesting?