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Some writings worth reading, this week, but let us start with a picture,[prism and NSA] "dad says you're spying on us" via knightofparis"Rule No. 1 for Female Academics: Don’t Have a Baby" http://slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/…"Insurance companies may not cover schools which allow their teachers to carry firearms" http://nytimes.com/2013/… via margrev and econoclaste"Game Over for the Climate" http://nytimes.com/…"Are private schools really better? Not for everybody and not everywhere" http://www.voxeu.org/article/are-private-schools-really-better-not-everybody-and-not-everywhere …"Winning the Genetic Lottery: Biasing Birth Sex Ratio Results in More Grandchildren” http://plosone.org/article/…"Diet soda may do more harm than good" http://download.cell.com/images/edimages/… via http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/…"France excels at producing top-rate academic economists. But high-school teaching of economics is uneven" http://economist.com/news/europe/…"Teach Five Year Olds Computer Programming" (in the U.K.) http://techweekeurope.co.uk/news… see also http://guardian.co.uk/politics/…"Boarding a plane takes too long and is often the most stressful part of a flight" http://economist.com/blogs/gulliver/…"The Mathematics of the Manhattan Project" http://math-blog.com/ …"The precautionary principle is a blunt instrument" http://guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/…[video philo] "Maths might not actually exist" https://youtu.be/TbNymweHW4E  via msgbi"Game Theory is Useful, Except When it is Not" http://symposium-magazine.com/game …"Math and science are popular until students realize what they’re getting themselves into" http://papers.nber.org/tmp/17674… via http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/…"Why is it that eating spicy causes the same physical reactions as does physical heat (e.g. burning and sweating)?" http://scientificamerican.com/…"Is the joy of working in a research field you love worth the pressure and uncertainty of an academic career?" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/..."Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century" http://stat.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/… via https://xianblog.wordpress.com/… and Genomeek[MIT myth?] "Calculus vs. real people" (actually ‘Real People’ is pointing toward the Sloan School of Management)"nearly 33% of New Yorkers spent more than half their monthly income on rent" via http://wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/…"Maps of Vast Empires That No Longer Exist" http://io9.com/maps-of-vast-empires-that-no-longer-exist-700385267 …"How Evolutionary Theory Can Reform Economics" http://aeonmagazine.com/living-together/… by David_S_Wilson via ‏rorysutherland"A mathematician goes to the beach" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/… on swimsuit formulas"Here’s what can go wrong when the government builds a huge database about Americans" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/…"With so many funds to choose from, investors might get everything they need by buying just a few of them" http://online.wsj.com/article/…"Empty Lecterns" http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/10/wisconsin-stevens-point-struggles-high-faculty-turnover-due-low-salaries …"Sneaky, sneaky math" via ‏centerofmath"The Prisoner’s Dilemma, with real prisoners" http://sciencedirect.com/science/… via MarcAbrahams's http://improbable.com/2013/…"Why We Underestimate Risk by Omitting Time as a Factor" http://bloomberg.com/news/…"Data Just Right" https://docs.google.com/document/… "A Practical Introduction to Data Science Skills" via lisawilliams"Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise" http://salon.com/2013/07/ …"Study indicates that scientific fraud may have a male bias" http://mbio.asm.org/content/… via http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/…"Percentage of the U.S. population carrying cameras everywhere" https://xkcd.com/1235/  see"Quantifying Tail Risk with Bad Data" http://papers.ssrn.com/2265691 … via researchpuzzler"Academic research is not something to which free access is possible" http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…"The real negative externalities of alcohol" http://theatlantic.com/business/archive/… via jodiecongirl (and econoclaste)"Are elite journals declining?" http://arxiv.org/1304.6460 via http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/…"Ten-year analysis (...) for therapy decision making in node-negative breast cancer patients" http://ejcancer.com/article/…back on an old (and infamous) story http://united-academics.org/magazine/… "Imprisoned Because of Bad Statistics""The Anti-Science Climate Denier Caucus" http://thinkprogress.org/climate-denier-caucus/ …"More evidence on the long term health impacts of in-utero radiation exposure" http://www.nber.org/18987 Toronto in the dark http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/…un peu de lectura en español, cambiador de vertido,"Estudiantes expresan su temor ante el recorte en la cuantía de las becas que prevé Educación para el próximo curso" http://infolibre.es/noticias/politica/…et comme souvent, un peu de lecture en français,"DotClear (2003-2013) R.I.P." http://open-time.net/post/2013/07/08/Aujourd-hui-celadon … via embruns (que j'ai connu à l'époque où le blog était freakonometrics.blog.free.fr)[cours] "Programmation avec le langage Python" http://www.xavierdupre.fr/site2013/documents/python/initiation_via_python_all.pdf … (la bible de Xavier)"Expatriation : des chercheurs français témoignent" http://lemonde.fr/societe/… via mart1oeil"L'université et la recherche, moteurs de l'économie" par Vincent Berger http://huffingtonpost.fr/vincent-berger/…"Être riche, se croire pauvre..." http://legizmoblog.blogspot.com/… par Anne__Lavigne"Université: pourquoi ça n’intéresse personne" http://sauvonsluniversite.com/?article6151 …“On assiste à une collecte de données personnelles de plus en plus importante, de la part des Etats” http://lesinrocks.com/2013/06/27/actualite/…Did I miss something?