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Some writings worth reading,"the appointee’s wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee’s constantly working calculus problems" http://explore.noodle.org/… via @nicholasdunbar's tweet "How bongos and calculus ended Feynman's marriage" see also http://brainpickings.org/…"For a long time, professors taught. Then someone decided it was not teaching that mattered much, but publication" http://seethruedu.com/updates/s…via@tomgara "Companies who regularly attend Davos underperform the market" http://economist.com/news/international/… nice graph!"Bayesian statistics made simple" http://allendowney.blogspot.ca/2014/01/… PyCon 2014, Montreal (see also http://greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/…)"Love, Actuarially" http://wired.com/wiredscience… by @wired ht @jbezivinRT @banksyny"How ideological activists constructed our polarized parties" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/… HT @CallOut4"Extreme workloads plague scientists at the start of their careers" http://nature.com/news/extreme… after 'the start' it's getting worse, HT @tomroud"Fake London Underground Signs" http://prosign.tumblr.com/post/…"Getting rid of the Euler equation" http://bruegel.org/nc/blog/detail/article/… by @JCSBruegel, "the equation at the core of modern macro" (economics)"How Make the Flight Paths of Birds Visible" by Dennis Hlynsky http://sysvision.wordpress.com/  see e.g."Movies so nice they made them thrice" http://visual.ly/movies-so-nice-they-made-them-thrice… (clearly not a nice viz', but interesting idea)On noise traders, "When Twitter storms cause financial panic" http://theconversation.com/when… … (via @tomashirstmoney and @DuncanWeldon)"Percentage of U.S. Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes, 1944-2012" via https://plot.ly/~Dreamshot/205/  and @ilovecharts see"A Taxonomy of Bad Papers" http://eagereyes.org/series/peer-review/ … in the "Peer Review" series"Global Risks 2014" http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2014/ … … see"The Limits of Price Discrimination" http://papers.ssrn.com/id=2288718 … via http://theoryclass.wordpress.com/…"New Truths That Only One Can See" http://nytimes.com/2014/01/2… by @byGeorgeJohnson ht @JenLucPiquant"[Fake World] Teaching The “Boring” Bits" http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?109  by @ddmeyerMusic style popularity http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/# … (how many GPM users have those artists or albums in their libraries) cf"On Breaking One’s Neck" http://nybooks.com/articles/… "I learned how it feels to be a helpless patient close to death.""Be Not Afraid…" http://isisthescientist.com/2014/01/2… from @drisis on outing pseudonymous bloggers, see also http://tressiemc.com/2014/01/21…Un article intéressant en français, ces derniers jours (venant de l'autre côté de la montagne)"Annulation d’abonnements à la majorité des périodiques de la collection Wiley Online Library" http://bib.umontreal.ca/communiques/… par @bibUdeMet un peu de lecture en danois, pour les plus courageux (via Philippe Réka, a.k.a. @visionscarto),"Er klimakampen skyld i høje elpriser?"  http://www.business.dk/green/er-klimakampen-skyld-i-hoeje-elpriser avec « Evolution du prix du gaz et de l’électricité pour l’industrie »« Prix moyen de l’électricité pour les ménages (à gauche) et pour l’industrie (à droite) »et « Prix moyen du gas pour les ménages (à gauche) et pour l’industrie (à droite) »Did I miss something?