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Some writings worth reading£14.5 million http://access.okfn.org/2014/04/24/… what just 19 Universities are spending during one year on journal subscriptions to a single publisher (see also http://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/... for a long and detailed analysis)For lazy people https://medium.com/i-love-charts/… "A Piketty Primer: “Capital” in 10 Essential Graphs" via @ilovecharts"What scientists say and what the public hears" via @afrakt and @admpstr"Federal prosecutors are nearing criminal charges against some of the world’s biggest banks" http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/… via @ChrisChavagneux"Can engaging with the public help your career in academia?" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/…damned! http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.5199… "Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game" via http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog…"The Chocolate Bar Chart" http://blog.plot.ly/84310676632… see"Math Shall Set You Free—From Envy" http://nautil.us/issue/13/…"The NSA Back Door to NIST" http://ams.org/notices/201402/…"Economists, Start Your Computers" http://bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-24/ … by @Mark__Buchanan"The dimensions of a city block" http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/84385555051/ … by @VizualStatistix see"Genesis and pathogenesis of the 1918 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus" http://pnas.org/24/1324197111… via http://medicalxpress.com/news/…"The Evolution of Big Data, and Where We’re Headed" http://wired.com/2014/03/ …"How Big Data Is Transforming The Travel Industry" http://forbes.com/sites/centurylink/…"Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?" http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/12/… see also https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/931/… e.g."It's Not Just Banks That Are Too Big To Fail" http://forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/… by @Frances_Coppola"A Eulogy for Twitter" http://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/ … "The beloved social publishing platform enters its twilight"amazing sunrise, on Twitter http://cartodb.s3.amazonaws.com/…Starving artists tend to come from wealthier families than doctors http://npr.org/blogs/money/ … see https://plot.ly/~Vox/6 "Strip Private Banks of the Power to Create Money" http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/7f000b18… via @Frances_Coppola's http://pieria.co.uk/articles/…"Peer review was introduced to scholarly publication in 1731 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh..." http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/…"Determining whether numbers truly can have no pattern has implications for stock market and data security" http://americanscientist.org/issues/pub/…"When being wrong is right" http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.ca/2014… by @TCJUK"Assignement of Airplane Seats" http://kindofnormal.com/truthfacts/… (story of my life)"Studying the Rich" http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/… by @rortybombDiversity in NFL, NBA and MLB, http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/… by @MonaChalabi"Why Piketty’s Book Is a Bigger Deal in America Than in France" http://nytimes.com/2014/04/30… by @tylercowen"Love free or die" http://economist.com/news/united-states/21600999… interesting graph (gay sex vs. adultery)http://notonappstore.com/  because there isn't an app for everythinget un peu de lecture en français,"La goutte d'eau qui met le feu aux poudres" (sic) http://lemonde.fr/idees/… via @vivelefeu"Mathématicienne" par Barbara Schapira, http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Mathematicienne… redécouvert via @gaiauniversitas"Apprendre le code, même à l’école" http://franceinter.fr/depeche… par @ABonvoisin"Délit de consultation de sites" http://zdnet.fr/actualites/…"Computer Chess" http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/… via http://franceculture.fr/emission-ce-qui-nous-arrive-sur-la-toile…Did I miss something? anything?