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Some interesting posts, this week,"Analysis of variance? Why it is more important than ever" http://arxiv.org/0504499 …"Martin Shubik's Dollar Auction Game" http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.be/…  see also http://johnkay.com/k …Témoignage en faveur des logiciels libres http://framablog.org/ca … "Quand l'accès au code source est une question vitale..." Troublant"Leaning tower illusion" http://mvr.mcgill.ca/Fred/ … (yes, pictures are identical... amazing)"Is The Market Rational? No, say the experts. But neither are you--so don't go thinking you can outsmart it" http:// money.cnn.com/for … (Dec 2002)"The Relevance of Algorithms" http://tarletongillespie.org/Gi …"Why do older players commit more technical fouls in basketball? (model this)" http://marginalrevolution.com/mt…"Don’t Ask? Internet Still Tells" http:/nytimes.com/tech …“In the coming decades, [NYC] will most likely face more rapidly rising sea levels and warmer temperatures, ..." http:// nytimes.com/opi…"What I tell patients is, if you like coffee, go ahead and drink as much as you want and can" http://theatlantic.com/health…  good to know !"The Epistemology of Plagiarism" http:// secondlanguage.blogspot.ca/th…"A Visual History of Nobel Prizes and Notable Laureates, 1901-2012" http://brainpickings.org/…[ebook] David Aldous's "On Chance and Unpredictability" http://stat.berkeley.edu/~ald …"Should you enter the academic blogosphere?" by @qui_oui (a few weeks ago) http://universityaffairs.ca/should…"that's the problem with randomness", viahttp://search.dilbert.com/com… ("you can never be sure")[ebook] "Matrix analysis and applied linear algebra" by Carl Meyer, http://matrixanalysis.com/Drs.html …"Lack of Humility and Fear of Public Misunderstandings Led to Fukushima Accident" http://news.sciencemag.org/sci…"Politics and statistics" http://economist.com/dem… "March of the nerds""Don't rely on economic analysis to learn about human rationality" http://theeuropean-magazine.com/…"On proof and progress in mathematics" by Willian P. Thurston http://goo.gl/...  via @stevenstrogatz"Disaster Economics" by James Surowiecki http://newyorker.com/fin…"Chinese typewriter anticipated predictive text" http://news.stanford.edu/n… see http://muse.jhu.edu/jo … for the academic version"accurate numbers aren't any more useful than the ones you make up" http://dilbert.com/fast/ …"The Real Republican Adversary? Population Density" http://davetroy.com/ … on @davetroy's blog ("fueled by randomness", awesome title for a blog)"One-sided science reporting" on scientists talking silly thingshttp://gropingtobethlehem.wordpress.com/o… via @zentree"As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price" http://www.nytimes.com/how-local-ta…"Vis ma vie d’enseignant chercheur en France" http://www.liberation.fr/so …[ebook] "L'épistémiologie des modèles et de la modélisation" http://mlikahamdi.unblog.fr/fi… (avec une relecture de Cournot et Lacan par Nicolas Bouleau, p178)"Obsolescence programmée et asymétrie d’information" via @obouba @pareto35 http:// rationalitelimitee.wordpress.com/obsol…wrong data? http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Wro0Data …"Egalitarian airlines" http://worthwhile.typepad.com/woradian_initi/2012/12/egalitarian-air-lines.html … by @franceswoolley"Why I love Twitter and barely tolerate Facebook" https://medium.com/i7a17de … by @mathowie (clearly more tolerant than I am) via @clairebrooks"The holiday is good for the economy during a recession. In more normal conditions, it is a troublesome waste of money"http://www. ft.com/ie9 …"High-Frequency Trading and High Returns" http://baselinescenario.com/hi …"Can social media strengthen science?" http://www.forbes.com/sit… by @matthewherper via @Jewels_2626 watch panel discussion"Do you need a university job to call yourself an academic?" http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-ed.. "Twenty-first-century projections of North Atlantic tropical storms from CMIP5 models" http://www.nature.com/ncli …"Body Cues, Not Facial Expressions, Discriminate Between Intense Positive and Negative Emotions" http://www.sciencemag.org/cont…"The Concept of the University"http:// secondlanguage.blogspot.ca/the-c…"soaring flood insurance rates and heightened standards for rebuilding (...) a luxury only the wealthy can afford" http://www. nytimes.com/ny... Flood insurance http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pub … "Lack of information on the true likelihood ... might still lead property owners to make bad decisions"911 in L.A. "How fast is LAFD where you live?" on http://datadesk.latimes.com"Still think you can beat the market?" http://timharford.com/still… on @TimHarford's blog"How many PhD's does it take to get a Powerpoint presentation to work?" http://www.phdcomics.com/com... via @phdcomics"Mandelbrot's life is a heroic story of discovery (...) however, he could be a difficult man" http://online.wsj.com/a… via @pickover"Dropping the Ball on Financial Regulation" http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2,,, "How Political Campaign Spending Brought Down the Roman Republic" http://www.slate.com/news…"Three Brief Proofs of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/ …"The Autism Advantage" http://www.nytimes.com/m … "how autistic workers are being drawn into the modern economy" see also  http:// papers.ssrn.com/fm …"Like everyone else I know, when I go to the beach I think mathematics..." http://www.newyorker.com/cul … an old post by @culturedesk"L’opinion publique n’existe pas" sur http://www.acrimed.org/3938… par Pierre Bourdieu, via @IanikMarcil (un texte à relire sans modération)"The Changing Goals of Data Visualization" http:// eagereyes.org/cch…"Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload" http:// papers.ssrn.com/fm…"Vers une fiscalité des données" http://owni.fr/ees… "plus (on) ouvre ses données aux utilisateurs, moins (on) est taxée" par @FradiFrad"The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques to lead with data" http://simplystatistics.org/ …Did I miss something ?