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Some writings worth reading,"Spam names" http://andrewgelman.com/… via @cynorrhodon"Degrees of Value: Making College Pay Off" http://online.wsj.com/news/article… "For Too Many Americans, College Today Isn't Worth It" via @Fabrice_BM"Map of major European transport routes" http://flickr.com/photos/ … via @notSoJunkDNA and @_NickGolding_ The code to make it is a variation on https://github.com/ericfischer/…and "Global Traffic Map" http://telegeography.com/ … via @Geopolitics2020 see also http://wired.com/politics/security/… and"How the NSA (may have) put a backdoor in RSA’s cryptography" http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/how… "Here are the basics on backdoors in security systems""R as a second language" (or third one) http://quantumforest.com/2… by @zentree“The Hydrodynamics of Urination: to Drip or Jet“ via http://improbable.com/20… (still looking for the paper)"EconoTrolls of Academia" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/2014/… by @Noahpinion in the #ASSA2014 session run by @standupecon see e.g."A Book-Length Defense of Big Banks Goes Long on Straw Men and Conspiracy Theories" http://newrepublic.com/article/…"Humanities scholarship is incredibly relevant, and that makes people sad" http://nataliacecire.blogspot.ru/2014/01… by @ncecire via @ryancordell and @miriamkp"Five Reasons Why You Should Probably Stop Using Antibacterial Soap" http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/…"Computer code appearing in movies and what they really are" http://moviecode.tumblr.com/  via http://numerama.com/magazine… (+ https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk )"The Mother of All Meaning" http://the-american-interest.com/wrm/2014/ … via @Geographedumond and @pegobry"Coffee or Tea?" (via http://geocurrents.info/economic-geography/…)[scotch] "K-means Clustering 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskies" http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2013/… via @statisticsblog"Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe" http://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/ … via @VisionsCarto"How the World Bank opened its resources to the world" http://teamopen.cc/carlos/  via @VisionsCarto cf https://openknowledge.worldbank.org"Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up" http://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/ …"An astonishing, dangerous cold snap is about to descend on the U.S." http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/… (0°F means -17.8°C)"Follow the Money; or, Why it Took an Accounts Committee to Decide Why Access to Clinical Trial Data Matters" http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/…"Optimise Your Travel To Work: Read Shakespeare" http://standard.co.uk/lifestyle/…"The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence" http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/… here it is"Data Mining Exposes Embarrassing Problems for Massive Open Online Courses" http://technologyreview.com/view/…"Market Capitalism and Open Access" http://scitechsociety.blogspot.be/2014/01/ …"Births per Deaths Ratio in Europe" from http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/… via http://joyofdata.de/blog/… seeand "Sex Ratio in Europe" from http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/… via http://joyofdata.de/blog/… see"Journal and article are being superseded by algorithms that filter, rate and disseminate scholarship as it happens" http://nature.com/nature/journal/…"‘Disrupting’ Higher Ed Will Destroy It" http://facultyrow.com/profiles/blogs/… via @NGhoussoubpeople tweeting in Manhattan http://vimeo.com/41703644  via http://neoformix.com/2012/… by @JeffClark"The Incredible, Explosive Growth of Chicago, As Seen Through Its Maps" http://theatlanticcities.com/design/2013/08/…"A World of Cities: The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries" http://nber.org/papers/w197… via @cblatts"Is Average Over?: Two Equivocal Graphs" http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/0 … by @bryan_caplan seeet un peu de lecture en français,"Les femmes prennent le volant" http://crest.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ … "Les logiques sociales de la diffusion du permis ..." via @coulmont et @nholzschuchParis et statistiques, http://telerama.fr/monde/paris … (et http://jstor.org/stable/2343726  pour une piqûre de rappel)“Plus Twitter prend de l’importance, plus sa liberté risque de s’éroder” http://lesinrocks.com/2014/ …"Big Brother existe… et tout le monde se fout de la menace : les raisons de notre étrange anesthésie collective" http://atlantico.fr/decryptage/big-b …"Les professeurs seront-ils les nouveaux riches de demain au Royaume-Uni ? " http://fr.myeurop.info/2014/01…"Misère de notre addiction numérique" http://lemonde.fr/idees/article/201…"Archéologie de la statue de la Liberté en ruine" http://culturevisuelle.org/dejavu/1609  cfDid I miss something?