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Some posts are articles worth reading"Sorry, but Disruptive Technology Will Kill Banks" http://jpnicols.com/2014/10/04/disruptive-technology-will-kill-banks/ … "Some of them, anyway.""It's No Joke: Humor Rarely Welcome in Research Write-Ups" http://chronicle.com/article/Its-No-Joke-Humor-Rarely/149025/ … ht @Uneheuredepeine"Are Muslims permanent foreigners in France?" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/02/are-muslims-permanent-foreigners-in-france/ … ht @adelaigue[Nobel Prize?] "we've been pouring juice wrong our whole lives" http://www.nerdist.com/2014/10/oh-my-glob-weve-been-pouring-juice-wrong-our-whole-lives/ … ht @scieditor"The Placebo Effect Doesn’t Apply Just to Pills" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/upshot/the-placebo-effect-doesnt-apply-just-to-pills.html… by @aaronecarroll"Growth and Inequality in the U.S.: when “shared prosperity” means shared by the very few" http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/10/growth-inequality-u-s-shared-prosperity-means-shared.html …Banksy (ht @dawnbazely @jaypsyd)Shorter men marry later, on average, but they tend to stay married longer, and to report greater happiness http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29464446 … (they say)"Game of Thrones character's on-screen time" http://codepen.io/DesmondW/pen/DJtxH …"Work–life balance: Kid-friendly digs" http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7519-575a … ht @devillesy"Why Rumors Outrace the Truth Online" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/upshot/its-so-much-more-fun-to-spread-rumors-than-the-truth.html … by @BrendanNyhan"The academic discipline is invaluable in detecting and debunking myths about the past and future" http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/history-the-key-to-decoding-big-data/2016026.article…Telling "I love you" http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/23/science-love-over-time/ … (on 2072 British adults, over 18)Men at work http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/dear-mona-how-many-flight-attendants-are-men/ …, by @MonaChalabi"In 1976 I discovered Ebola, now I fear an unimaginable tragedy" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/04/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak …"Too Much Air in Potato Chip Packets? Students Make a Boat to Prove It" http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/09/29/too-much-air-in-potato-chip-packets-students-make-boat-to-prove-it/ …"We Want Privacy, but Can’t Stop Sharing" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/sunday-review/we-want-privacy-but-cant-stop-sharing.html … by @mskatemurphy"Can Big Data Tell Us What Clinical Trials Don’t?" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/magazine/can-big-data-tell-us-what-clinical-trials-dont.html …"The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy" http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy … "The Phoebus cartel gave birth to planned obsolescence" (and http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2014/09/the-story-behind-the-story-behind-the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy-2465498.html …)"Why we need to solve our alcohol problem to solve our crime problem" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/28/mark-kleiman-on-why-we-need-to-solve-our-alcohol-problem-to-solve-our-crime-problem/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein …"Mapping the Spread of Housing Inequality Over the Great Recession" http://www.citylab.com/housing/2014/09/mapping-the-spread-of-housing-inequality-over-the-great-recession/380300/ … and http://datatools.urban.org/Features/mortgages-by-race/#5/37.996/-96.570 …in L.A., but also in Detroit"Americans Are Getting Apathetic About Huge Data Breaches" http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/03/jpmorgan_data_breach_whose_at_risk_in_the_huge_cyberattack.html?wpsrc=fol_tw … ht @aussietorres"When all cigarette packs look the same, fewer people buy them" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/29/when-all-cigarette-packages-look-the-same-fewer-people-buy-them/ … ht @janzilinsky"Is Social Science a Joke?" http://www.waggish.org/2013/is-social-science-a-joke … ht @AuerbachKeller"Geography of Hong Kong's Protests" http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/the-political-geography-of-hong-kongs-protests/380925/ … "demanding democracy in intersections not central squares""The Enron Corpus: A New Dataset for Email Classication Research" http://nyc.lti.cs.cmu.edu/yiming/Publications/klimt-ecml04.pdf … + dataset https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/enron_mail_20110402.tgz … (423Mb zip)"Dallas Hospital Alters Account, Raising Questions on Ebola Case" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/us/containing-ebola-cdc-troops-west-africa.html …"The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations" http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6205/56 …on bipolar vision of technology http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/09/29/parenting-as-a-gen-xer-what-its-like-to-be-the-first-generation-of-parents-in-the-age-of-ieverything/ …"We’re the first generation of parents in the age of iEverything" by @AllisonState"What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things?" https://theconversation.com/the-10-stuff-ups-we-all-make-when-interpreting-research-30816 …"Should we ban flights from countries with Ebola outbreaks?" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ban-flights-countries-ebola-outbreaks…"Big data has taken root faster than anyone could ever have expected. But [… ] it’s becoming manageable" http://www.cio.com.au/article/556574/taming-big-data/?fp=16&#38;fpid=1&#38;utm_content=bufferb2567…"Is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it?" http://blog.lindau-nobel.org/the-verdict-is-blogging-or-tweeting-about-research-papers-worth-it/ …“How to share data with a statistician” https://github.com/jtleek/datasharing … by @jtleek ht @JennyBryan"Chickens have gotten ridiculously large since 50s" http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/26/ps.2014-04291.abstract … ht http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/10/2/6875031/chickens-breeding-farming-boilers-giant … and @flowingdata"How Sex Is Like Your Thermostat" http://nautil.us/blog/how-sex-is-like-your-thermostat … "Both sex and your thermostat depend on feedback loops" by @JRMorber"Counting trees to save the woods: using big data to map deforestation" http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/oct/02/counting-trees-to-save-the-woods-using-big-data-to-map-deforestation …"What is the purpose of blogging about visualization? to make fun of the bad stuff? to point to pretty things?" http://eagereyes.org/blog/2014/eight-years-of-eagereyes …Dilbert http://www.bigdata-madesimple.com/dilberts-20-funniest-cartoons-on-big-data/ … by @datamadesimple"My name is danah and I’m a stats addict" https://medium.com/message/my-name-is-danah-and-im-a-stats-addict-93f7636320bb … by @zephoria"Wall Street Pays Its Workers to Suffer" http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-02/wall-street-pays-its-workers-to-suffer … by @Noahpinion ht @sylvaincf"Foreign Policy in the Age of Retrenchment" http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/UserFiles/File/Task%20Force%20Reports/2014_CCS_Report.pdf …"Violence Erupts in Hong Kong as Protesters Are Assaulted" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/world/asia/hong-kong-protests.html …"Is an Exodus of Ph.D.s Causing a Brain Drain in the U.S.?" http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119668/exodus-phds-causing-brain-drain-us … "The rise of the 'passport professor'""How Much Meat Do Americans Eat? Then and Now" http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/how-much-meat-do-americans-eat-then-and-now-1792/?mod=WSJBlog … ht @adelaigue"Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/25/why-a-leading-professor-of-new-media-just-banned-technology-use-in-class/… ht @davdittrich"University rankings: reliable or rubbish?" http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/university-rankings-reliable-or-rubbish-20141002-10p8m8.html … by @KnottMatthew to @fdastous"Why Textbook Prices Keep Climbing" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/03/353300404/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing…"Prudence penalised" http://www.economist.com… authorities “do not know the actual performance of services they are supposed to regulate”"Japan stocks rattled by $617bn 'fat finger' trading error" http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29454265 … ht @halex21"The A.I.G. Trial Is A Comedy" http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/aig-trial-comedy …RT @laurenfosternyc Word of the Day: Procaffeinatingeinige lesungen auch in der deutschen"Das geteilte Land" http://www.zeit.de/feature/mauerfall-das-geteilte-land …et en français"Un président d'université belge démissionne après avoir plagié Chirac" http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2014/10/06/un-president-d-universite-belge-demissionne-apres-avoir-plagie-chirac_1116139… (oui, Jacques)"A quoi servent les études?" http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/classe-eco/2014/10/05/a-quoi-servent-les-etudes.html … par @adelaigue"Les profs d’éthique aiment bien les mères porteuses : la gestation pour autrui (GPA) soulève des questions..." http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/le-devoir-de-philo/408530/le-devoir-de-philo-pas-de-panique-avec-les-meres-porteuses …Québec-France, "le choc des cultures" http://www.lesinrocks.com/inrocks.tv/lactrice-xavier-dolan-consternee-les-propos-zemmour-mariage/#.VDFBx8T7Xs8.twitter … Anne Dorval face à Eric ZemmourFacebook veut concurrencer Doctissimo et connaître votre santé http://www.numerama.com/magazine/30803-facebook-veut-concurrencer-doctissimo-et-connaitre-votre-sante.html … par @gchampeau"L’école, un investissement plutôt qu’une dépense" http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/419939/l-ecole-un-investissement-plutot-qu-une-depense …"5 trucs que les journalistes papier ne devraient plus jamais dire" http://dansmonlabo.com/2014/10/03/5-phrases-que-les-journalistes-papier-ne-devraient-plus-jamais-prononcer-287/ … (amusant)"L'optimisation mathématique, tradition orale" http://lavieestmaloptimisee.blogspot.fr/2014/09/loptimisation-mathematique-tradition.html … ht @tomroud"Et si l'on pouvait rire (intelligemment) de l'économie ?" http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20141003trib000851633/et-si-l-on-pouvait-rire-intelligemment-de-l-economie-.html … ht @rosselin"Princesses, Pop Stars &#38; Girl Power" https://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/047550-000/princesses-pop-stars-girl-power … toujours sur @artefr"Ebola: les anthropologues en renfort" https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/ebola-les-anthropologues-en-renfort …"Comment le Big Data va révolutionner l'assurance" http://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/0203794998516-comment-le-big-data-va-revolutionner-lassurance-1048982.php … par @laurentthevenin"Le monolinguisme du big data, un danger pour l'information ?" http://atelier.rfi.fr/profiles/blogs/big-data-pourquoi-sans-l-homme-les-donn-es-ne-savent-pas-informer…Some news also from Hong KongDid I miss something interesting?