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Time to share interesting posts and articles found this week on the internet, with a popular article to start with (retweetted by almost 50 followers),"How Vaccines Have Changed Our World In One Graphic" http://forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/…and still, a lot of posts here and there"Does the orientation of a Pollock painting really matter?" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...  via http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/…(Health Insurance) "Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us" http://healthland.time.com/…"How Higher Bank Capital Requirements Could Change The Real Economy" http://slate.com/blogs/moneybox/… by mattyglesias"Statistically speaking, we don’t use calculus much" http://heraldsun.com/opinion/opinioncolumnists/… via amstatnews"The alternative to “good statistics” is not “no statistics,” it’s “bad statistics”" http://andrewgelman.com/…"Twitter's languages of New York mapped" http://guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/… via stevesilberman YvesMulkers GuardianData"America's awful job market for young scientists, researchers in other fields, too" http://theatlantic.com/business/… by jhweissmann via EpicureanDeal"Good Problems To Solve In Data Science" http://dataenthusiast.com/… via prismatic  and chlalanne"Publishing on the web for researchers" http://markcarrigan.net/… by mark_carrigan via Protohedgehog"Will the study of archaeology soon become a thing of the past?" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…"Voting Math Doesn’t Always Add Up" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… see also http://pnas.org/…[multiple choice] via Fabrice_BM and Blogizmo difficult question"Choosing an electoral system" by Hix, Johnston and McLean http://britac.ac.uk/…"The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food" http://nytimes.com/… "The hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American “stomach share”""The NYT is doing something smart by using Twitter trends to target ads" http://paidcontent.org/ … via http://presse-citron.net/…"Tilting your seat back on an airplane is pure evil. But so is installing seats that recline in the first place." http://slate.com/articles/life/…"What Data Can’t Do" http://nytimes.com … via MarkThomaAcademic publications, "High Impact = High Statistical Standards? Not Necessarily So" http://plosone.org/article/… via http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/…"A National Portrait of Drunk Driving" http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/… (interactive map) and "Five Years of Traffic Fatalities" (in the U.S.) http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/…"Map Math: The United States of Ratios" http://datalicious.sharedby.co/share/M659fQ  see e.g.what are the odds ? http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/… "How you are unlikely to die"we are the 55%! http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056160 … "watching 3D movies makes 54.8% of people want to vomit""The Real Problem with the Big Banks" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/… by James Surowiecki, via adelaigue"Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse' " http://guardian.co.uk/environment/… via PierreRibereauavec, comme souvent, quelques articles en français, à commencer par plusieurs articles sur Alain Desrosières, qui nous a quitté en début de semaine[RIP] Alain Desrosières http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/… et http://alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/raveaud/ … un honoris causa dont l'UQAM peut etre fiere http://nouvelles.uqam.ca/2011/…merci à Bourdieuhommage pour les vidées d'Alain Desrosières http://pierrebourdieuunhommage.blogspot.fr/…Séminaire "Les Probabilismes" 29 septembre 2011 :: Laurent Mazliak (Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires) 2/2 from Cournot Centre on Vimeo.mais là aussi, plusieurs articles divers et variésen France, "Le niveau scolaire baisse, cette fois-ci c'est vrai !", http://lemonde.fr/idees/article/… par Antoine Prost (historien de l'éducation)"Les jeunes gagnent moins et achètent plus. Comment font-ils?" http://credoc.fr/pdf/Rech/… via http://challenges.fr/economie/…"Sur Internet, on n'est jamais à plus de 19 clics d'une autre page" http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/… via 6MON2PANAME"Quand la science apprend à communiquer" http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/… par paslap (voir aussi http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/… journalistes versus blogueurs)Did I miss something ?