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Back from holidays...A few writings worth reading, discovered this week,"The Science Of How Applause Spreads In An Audience" http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/… via http://popsci.com/science/…"Sex differences during humor appreciation" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...[maps] "The world according to Americans" (via http://alphadesigner.com/mapping-stereotypes/…) seeversus "The U.S. according to Americans" (so called 'common sense')"Too much hype" http://nature.com/naturejobs/science/… "Scientists have to promote their work. But they should fight the pull to oversell it""Stock Market Since 1900" via ritholtz"Why open access isn't enough in itself" http://theguardian.com/higher-education-network/…"Groups that carve out space for different perspectives tend to make more sensible decisions" http://timharford.com/… by TimHarford“Why did God invent economists?” http://washingtonpost.com/business/… by ritholtz (“To make weathermen feel good about themselves”) via greatAdvisors"How the wrong definition of 'literally' sneaked into the dictionary" http://theweek.com/article/… see also http://boston.com/lifestyle/…"How old were the key participants of the American Revolution?" http://allthingsliberty.com/ …"Red Hair in Europe" (see http://eupedia.com/genetics/… for more details)"Who is sending nude photos or sexually explicit messages via the phone or social networks? To whom?" http://united-academics.org/magazine/…"Who Will Pay for Public Access to Research Data?" via phylogenomics (the answer is on the page: costs $20 to read)"Fracking could accelerate global warming" http://newscientist.com/article/…"The Earth Is Round (p &#60; .05)" http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/…"Why clinicians are natural bayesians" http://bmj.com/…"Game Theory, Conditional Preferences, and Social Influence" http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/… via Cyril_Hedoin"What the Science Tells Us About “Trust in Science”" http://compassblogs.org/blog/ … via boraz"How to Share Scientific Data" http://nytimes.com/2013/…"Thirty Years of Prospect Theory in Economics" http://aeaweb.org/atypon… via http://economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/… and SylvainCF"The maths geniuses running Wall Street" http://telegraph.co.uk/finance/…Polynomial regression to prove that coal heating is reducing lifespan by 5 years http://andrewgelman.com/2013/… see"A healthy side effect of High Frequency Trading?" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/… by @noahpinion"Science journalism and the art of expressing uncertainty" http://symposium-magazine.com/…"How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?" http://wbro.oxfordjournals.org/content… discovered via http://voxeu.org/article…"Statistical Thinking: The Bedrock of Data Science" http://huffingtonpost.com/american-statistical-association/…"Diversification Isn’t Broken, It Just Takes a While" http://nytimes.com/2013/…"15 Sorting Algorithms" https://youtu.be/kPRA0W1kECg"Hedge funds and S&#38;P500 have nearly identical 20-year performance; but very different on a risk-adjusted basis" http://soberlook.com/…"Bracing for a social media explosion on Election Day" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/…"Dark chocolate improves your ability to do math" http://telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/… via lauramclay (so does coffee I hope...)"The cultural nature of risk: Can there be an anthropology of uncertainty?" http://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/…discoverd via JFPuget "Nice discussion of Machine Learning vs Statistics" My Time Among the Statisticians http://statblog.net/… via NGhoussoub and siah"Not Sleeping Well? Blame the Moon" http://www.theatlantic.com/health/… see"How The American University was Killed" http://junctrebellion.wordpress.com/…"East Asia leads the world in business funding" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/…"Massive open online courses will probably turn out to be little more than an edu-tainment 'bubble'" http://theguardian.com/education/…"Anthropologists join actuaries on risk" http://ft.com/cms/…Shanghai, 26 years in two pics"Sexual addiction is not actually an addiction" http://io9.com/… via goulu the study is here http://socioaffectiveneuroscipsychol.net/…"Risk of getting caught versus the rewards of not getting caught" http://paladinregistry.com/blog/… by paladinregistry via researchpuzzler"How long can you go without sleep?" http://bbc.com/future/story/…Sports on TV, in the U.S."It’s the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent" http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/… via margrev's http://marginalrevolution.com/…"East Asia leads the world in business funding" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/…avec un article en français, cette semaine"La normalisation de l'Université" http://auboutduweb.com/poolp/public/…et quelques pensées qui méritent réflexions"Et c'est ainsi que, après 2 heures d'embouteillages avec ses enfants dans la voiture, Charlemagne décida d'inventer l'école." (par Nouj1)"Mon principe d'éducation préféré, c'est de crier sur ses enfants pour leur dire qu'il faut qu'ils arrêtent de crier." (par LANDEYves)"« Il y a toujours une lumière au bout du tunnel ». Bah oui connard. Sinon on appellerait ça une grotte hein." (par LANDEYves)Did I miss something?