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A series of writings worth readings, found somewhere else, on the internetOver 1,000 years, "calculated warming over land areas averages approximately 20°C" http://m.rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/… via http://observationdeck.io9.com/our…"Understanding posterior p-value" http://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/… via http://andrewgelman.com/2013/09/18/… and @StatsBlogs"Researchers’ ‘unrealistic’ hopes of academic careers" http://timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/…"That’s not what science is, though. That’s data" http://johnskylar.com/post/61507282912/… via @Lignedescience and @PolycrystalhD"You know those emails for fake conferences? What it's like, if you actually went" http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/09/12/ … via @tomroud and @hormiga"Econometricians looked at the news business, and it isn’t pretty" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/…[junk charts] playing with barplots (via http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/…) see"Each time I hear someone say, “Do the math,” I grit my teeth" http://nytimes.com/2013/09/16/opinion/…"Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/…"Income stagnation (...) provides the backdrop for almost everything that happens in Washington" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/… via @nxthompson"Banks Really Are Different Five Years After the Financial Crisis" (according to @grossdm) http://thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/…the day before default, Lehman's 1-Yr default likelihood was lower than 5%, via @DoumDoom"deep denialism in the environmental movement among Big Green groups ... more damaging than the right-wing denialism" http://earthisland.org/journal/…[Facebook] "With friends like these ..." http://theguardian.com/technology/2008/ … (in 2008) [diagnostic] Woman with high fever cured by Jesus Christ (Mark 1:29-33 Matthew 8:14-15) http://virologyj.com/content/pdf/… "was suffering from the flu" (glad to know)best study, ever! "The case of the disappearing teaspoons" http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/… a longitudinal study. (Thanks @temptoetiam) "Subjects 70 discreetly numbered teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute and observed weekly over five months"  To go further, "Teabags and forks are confounding factors" http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7533… see also http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7533… but keep in mind that "Teaspoons may reappear" http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7533 … see also http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7533…"Modeling absolute risks of pancreatic cancer using genetic and non-genetic risk factors" http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/… by @GENES_PK "The secret financial market only robots can see" http://qz.com/124721/th… by @timfernholz[coffee] "Men who drink more than four cups a day are 56% more likely to die" (somehow) http://nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/… or probably not http://statschat.org.nz/2013/09/…"Why everyone should wear a veil in court" http://newstatesman.com/politics/2013/…Great idea! http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/2013/09 …) "Another Regression Trick" on @DEAGiles's blog"More on the Coming French Imperium" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/… by @nytimeskrugman see"Forecasting with daily data" http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/… on @robjhyndman's blog"Do Bike Lanes Actually Speed Up Car Traffic?" http://fastcoexist.com/3017312/ … by @jessleber"For most Americans life expectancy continues to rise-but not for uneducated white women" http://prospect.org/article/… by @MonicabPotts via @goulu"Why Your Boss Cares If You're Happy" http://fastcoexist.com/3017403/… (or I guess should care)"entertainment as collateral consequence of progress?" http://ytimes.com/2013/09/… "progress, often, is the benefit of the pursuit of pleasure"[junk charts] "The inutility of stacking columns" http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/… see"No, Economics Is Good for Lots of Things" http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/2013/09/… by @yichuanw"What the Sexes Want, in Speed Dating" http://flowingdata.com/2013/06/12/ …[free ebook] "A Course in Machine Learning" by Hal Daumé III http://ciml.info/dl/v0_8/ciml-v0… via @YvesMulkers[map] "Europe, 1000 AD to present day""Replication" and "Reproducibility", http://davegiles.blogspot.ca/2013/09/… on @deagiles's blog"Trading bots create extreme events faster than humans can react" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/… see also http://nature.com/srep/…"Whig Theories of the History of Thought" http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/2013/09/14 …"Self-Portraits: Smartphones Reveal a Side Bias in Non-Artists" http://plosone.org/article…Shaving and statistics"How a Relationship Dies on Facebook" http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/… by @BetsyMorais via @1GRR"Heads They Win, Tails We Lose" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/… on distortion of incentives inherent in financial-industry compensation"Forged from fact or glorified fiction" http://worldfinance.com/markets/… via @hgibier skyscraper index, Superbowl indicator and men's underewear index"How people argue with research they don’t like" http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/… seeet comme régulièrement, un peu de lecture en français, avec deux fail splendides,"De la monnaie cosmopolitique" http://ofce.sciences-po.fr/blog/?p=4464  via @XTimbeau"35% des parents seraient bien en peine d'expliquer comment leur progéniture gagne sa vie" http://lexpress.fr/emploi-carriere/emploi/… via @AdrienneAlix[1, Fail, TV screenshot] il ne faut pas s'étonner que les français aient du mal avec la géographie via @FranckLassagne[2, Fail, Internet screenshot] décidément c'est dur la géographie via @avocatbxl @charlielaurent Did I miss something interesting?