{"word_count": 553, "character_count": 7386}
Some posts and articles worth reading,"The Ethics Of Fighting Ebola" http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ebola-vaccines-treatments-by-peter-singer-2014-11 … by @PeterSinger"These 14 walls continue to separate the world" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/11/these-14-walls-continue-to-separate-the-world/ … by @rick_n (and @geopolitics2020, of course)"Open access to scientific information ? No, thanks – we’re French !" http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2014/11/12/open-access-to-scientific-information-no-thanks-were-french … ht @liotier"Top 10 causes of death in 1900 and 2010" http://sploid.gizmodo.com/fascinating-comparison-of-the-top-10-causes-of-death-in-1657638574 …via @TheLancet Our Ageing Series published last week: all papers online and free here http://www.thelancet.com/series/ageingWhat do you think is a "sensitive data" ? http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/11/12/public-privacy-perceptions/ …"Sowing the seed: Incentives and motivations for sharing research data, a researchers’ perspective" http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Incentives_for_Sharing.PDF …"Lessons from economics on the spread of Ebola" http://forumblog.org/2014/11/lessons-from-economics-on-the-spread-of-ebola/ …"From the Knowledge Economy to the Human Economy" https://hbr.org/2014/11/from-the-knowledge-economy-to-the-human-economy …"Relationship Status" http://flowingdata.com/2014/11/12/relationship-status/#more-37455 …"Americans Say They Want Privacy, but Act as if They Don’t" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/upshot/americans-say-they-want-privacy-but-act-as-if-they-dont.html …"Has the Internet killed thoughtful engagement with a text-or are we nostalgic for a reading Eden that never existed" http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/0/reading_insecurity_the_crippling_fear_that_the_digital_age_has_left_you.htm"From the Knowledge Economy to the Human Economy" https://hbr.org/2014/11/from-the-knowledge-economy-to-the-human-economy …"Why you’re often better off saving for retirement than buying a home" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2014/11/11/why-youre-often-better-off-saving-for-retirement-than-buying-a-home/ …"North &#38; Western Europe" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7526_supp/full/515S66a.html … ht @tomroud ("heavy administrative and bureaucratic burden makes collaborations difficult")"Better Financial Security in Retirement? Realizing the Promise of Longevity Annuities" http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/11/06%20retirement%20longevity%20annuities%20harris/06_retirement_longevity_annuities_harris.pdf … via http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2014/11/life-expectancy-risk-and-annuities.html …"Public Transit: All About Density " http://numbersbox.blogspot.com/2014/11/public-transit-all-about-density.html … by @keltz_"Massively Parallel Clustering: Overview" http://grigory.us/blog/mapreduce-clustering/ … by @gyaroslavtsev"... and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns" http://www.nber.org/papers/w20592  by @camharveyOverly honest references "Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?" http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/11/_crappy_gabor_paper_overly_honest_citation_slips_into_peer_reviewed_journal.html … ht @rboheim @IgorCarron"Perceptions are not reality: Things the world gets wrong" https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3466/Perceptions-are-not-reality-10-things-the-world-gets-wrong.aspx … (additional information, including sources of stats)"How to Write a Recommendation Letter" http://theprofessorisin.com/2012/09/07/how-to-write-a-recommendation-letter/ … ht @jrossibarra @michaelhoffman"Who Died In Iraq" http://costsofwar.org/ "Culture and R2" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304405X14001871 …"Trading as Gambling" http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2014.1979 …In Orwell’s "1984", there was "oldspeak", "newspeak". In central banking, there is "Fedspeak" http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/11/daily-chart-5?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/fedspeak …"Is there a free-market solution to global warming?" http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7187057/global-warming-free-market-solution-republican-skepticism …"France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers." http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/france-prefers-to-pay-twice-for-papers-by-its-researchers …"You’ll probably live much longer than you think you will" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/10/youll-probably-live-much-longer-than-you-think-you-will/ … now that I know that I will live longer, is it still true?"Will reading the New York Times make me pregnant? " http://www.collective-behavior.com/?p=834 "Rape as an Economic Crime" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25381269?dopt=Abstract …"Do you still set your courses by the stars?" http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-rosenthal-michelin-duncan-hines-1109-biz-20141107-column.html …via @DiegoKuonen "Algorithms - Accuracy vs Interpretability" (via https://www.slideshare.net/dtunkelang/my-three-exs-a-data-science-approach-for-applied-machine-learning …)"“I kind of like that about science:” Harvard diabetes breakthrough muddied by two new papers" http://retractionwatch.com/2014/11/10/i-kind-of-like-that-about-science-harvard-diabetes-breakthrough-muddied-by-two-new-papers/ …"We need clear policy on tweeting from academic conferences" http://svpow.com/2014/11/10/we-need-clear-policy-on-tweeting-from-academic-conferences …cool https://peerj.com/articles/563/  "Automatic identification of species with neural networks"et un peu de lecture en français"Le scandale des abonnements de revues scientifiques éclate au grand jour" http://toutsepassecommesi.cafe-sciences.org/2014/11/11/le-scandale-des-abonnements-de-revues-scientifiques-eclate-au-grand-jour … par @marc_rrvia @JDNSolutions Jean-Marc Bonnet (Teradata) : "J'espère qu'on arrêtera bientôt de parler autant du Big Data" http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/analytics/jean-marc-bonnet-teradata-et-hadoop-et-big-data-interview.shtml …"de l’usage des réseaux sociaux par les organismes de recherche" http://sircome.fr/Observatoire-2014-de-l-usage-des …"Ceci n'est pas une « bavure »" http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/article/121114/ceci-nest-pas-une-bavure …"L’incroyable bourde du Ministère de la Recherche" http://tomroud.cafe-sciences.org/2014/11/12/lincroyable-bourde-du-ministere-de-la-recherche/ … par @tomroud (sur les chercheurs français en poste à l'étranger)via @g_allegre L'âge médian du public du classique est passé de 36 ans en 1981 à 61 ans aujourd'hui http://www.afp.com/fr/info/le-concert-classique-doit-revoir-sa-partition-pour-survivre …"La France préfère payer (deux fois) pour les articles de ses chercheurs " http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/11/10/france-prefere-payer-deux-fois-les-articles-chercheurs-255964 …Sur l'avenir des formations en Sciences Economiques http://orientation.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/11/07/lopposition-entre-les-sciences-economiques-et-la-gestion-est-stupide-et-non-productive/ … (titre de l'article polémiste et réducteur, dommage, car l'article est intéressant)"Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. nous attribuent des sinécures numériques" http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2014/11/la-sinecure-numerique-.html …Did I miss something interesting?