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Breaking news"Students Who Do Homework Get Higher Grades" http://tandfonline.com/doi/… via MarcAbrahams's http://improbable.com/…The authors find that homework plays an important role in student learning, especially so for students who initially perform poorly in the course. Students in the homework-required group have higher retention rates, higher test scores (5 to 6 percent), more good grades (Bs), and lower failure rates.and as usual, as series of writings worth reading,"The man who gives geeks a good name" ? http://independent.co.uk/news/people/… a portrait of TimHarford"Do Military Interventions Reduce Killings of Civilians in Civil Wars?" http://themonkeycage.org/… on monkeycageblog's blog"Two Heads are Better than One" http://huffingtonpost.com/dr-jennifer-lamberts/… "The Importance of Collaboration in Research""by varying the timing of treatments, doctors may be able to increase the odds that a disease outbreak will die off suddenly" http://scientificamerican.com/article…"The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity" http://nber.org/papers/…"Why Hasn’t Scientific Publishing Been Disrupted Already?" http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/… via NGhoussoub"The Challenge of Counting Heat-Wave Deaths" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… via adelaigue"How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists" http://violentmetaphors.com/… via thebestsophist[risk] http://xkcd.com/1252/  see"The Man Who Invented Modern Probability" http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely… please, meet Andrei Kolmogorov, via statisticsblog"What is the chance to get a parking ticket in 30 min if chance to get a ticket is 80% in 60 min?" http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/… via statisticsblog"Top 10 Data Mining Mistakes" http://mydatamine.com/wp…"Science And GMOs Are Not The Bad Guys" http://forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/… by ejwillingham via edyong209"Affirmation in science is a rare beast" http://scientopia.org/blogs/drugmonkey/… via goulu"The obesity era" http://aeonmagazine.com/being-human/… via AnnieLowrey"Teaching Naked, Part 1" http://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/… by tenureshewrote via phylogenomics"Facebook friends could change your credit score" http://money.cnn.com/… via Caro_LM and EddyElfenbein"When does one’s native language stop being native?" http://japantimes.co.jp/life/… via LanguageLog's http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll…"Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict" http://sciencemag.org/content/early… via http://economist.com/blogs/babbage/…"Rethinking investment risk" http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/… via MarkThoma"Banks, economists and politicians: just follow the money" http://mainlymacro.blogspot.ca … via MarkThoma"How to Predict Your Baby's Gender, 1684" http://askthepast.blogspot.ca/2013/08/how-to … on the awesome blog http://askthepast.blogspot.ca/ "The biggest bubble of them all has been the bubble in central banking" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/ … via Noahpinion"Proud Nation Ponders How to Halt Its Slow Decline" http://nytimes.com/2013/08/25/world/europe/… vs "NYT Doesn't Like French Welfare State" http://cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/…"When the textbook industry goes the way of the music industry" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi…[textmining] "How a Computer Program Helped Reveal J. K. Rowling as Author of A Cuckoo’s Calling" http://scientificamerican.com/… by garethideas"Should Science Be for Sale?" http://the-scientist.com/ …The death of the statistician" http://analyticbridge.com/… on analyticbridge's blog, see"The Tuition is Too Damn High" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…"The biggest bubble of them all has been the bubble in central banking" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… via Noahpinion"What Is Economics Good For?" http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/… (same answers to the same old question)"number of administrators jumped 54% in the past decade, 8 times the growth rate of tenured and tenure-track faculty"  via JohnDCook "The rapidly growing administrator-to-faculty ratio" http://businessweek.com/articles/… via fournier_r and mixlamalice"Forecasting Profitability" http://nber.org/papers/w19334 "The Macroeconomics of Sisyphus" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com… by NYTimeskrugman"I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet." http://nytimes.com/2013/08/25/opinion/… via johnmyleswhite and katewong"Visualization of first 100 billion digits of π proves randomness" http://wired.co.uk/magazine/a … via HNTweets"Is there a future for international banks?" http://voxeu.org/article/… via ABuschmeier and MarkThoma"Bot wars, or how hackers are beating you everything you want" http://newstatesman.com/internet/…[lego] "Monty Python sets that you’ll never see in stores" http://brothers-brick.com/… (unfortunately)et cette semaine, quelques billets et articles en français,"Sourde bataille pour le temps" http://monde-diplomatique.fr/… par monachollet"Se bricoler un nouveau monde" http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/… par IanikMarcil"Un plaidoyer pour les vielles données!" http://ciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/… via SciencePresseDid I miss something?