Long time no see. Here are some very interesting posts, discovered this week, somewhere else on the internet,
- “Good biology can be done without maths” or “no good biology can be done with maths” ? http://online.wsj.com/… via econFR and tomroud
- “How Beer Gave Us Civilization” http://nytimes.com/opinion/sunday/… via phnk
- “How to have the perfect day: Have sex for 106 minutes” http://qz.com/69989/… based on http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/… via A_DS et http://lemonde.fr/vous/…
and as usual, a lot of other interesting posts, articles, even pictures, found here and there
- “Does anyone give money to charity efficiently?” http://slatestarcodex.com/… via MatingMind an MargRev
- “Climate science: A sensitive matter” http://economist.com/science-technology/… via GorgeGdo
- “The rebirth of proof in school mathematics in the United States?” http://lettredelapreuve.it/… (in 2000, a bit old)
- “Your Reputation Will Be the Currency of the Future” http://scientificamerican.com/ from mgorbis‘s book via BoraZ
- “Turbulence Ahead!” http://ibtimes.com/turbulence… “Climate Change To Cause Bumpier Flights, Longer Trips” via http://slate.fr/lien/…
- “A world without macroeconomists?” http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/… by Noahpinion
- “Penis size interacts with body shape and height to influence male attractiveness” http://pnas.org/1219361110 …
- “The Secrets of Princeton” http://nytimes.com/… “to perpetuate the existing upper class” in the U.S., by DouthatNYT via olivierbusquet
- “How Bayes’ Rule can make you a better thinker” http://io9.com/how … via davidwees
- “Facebook Homeis a trojan horse designed to steal the Android experience” http://appleoutsider.com/… via ritholtz
- “How many Americans will be denied essential health care in the name of freedom?” http://nytimes.com/…
- “Margaret Thatcher dies following a strike” (RT martin_u, via IanikMarcil fdaudens)
- “Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms” http://salon.com/… and other ambiguities in plain language http://cut-the-knot.org/language/…
- “Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)” http://nytimes.com/… via katypearce
- “The Hidden Biases in Big Data” http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/… by katecrawford
- interesting http://usnews.com/science/articles/… “Recommendation Letters May Be Costing Women Jobs” via http://wgst303.wordpress.com/… and http://themonkeycage.org/2010/11/…
- “How Did Intellectual Property Become a Free Trade Issue?” http://themonkeycage.org/ …
- “In our digital world you don’t own stuff, you just license it” http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/… via msgbi and TeraEuro
- “Diet water” ? http://.diet-blog.com/diet_water I thought it was a joke…
- “Early career research: the power of ‘no'” http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…
- “In Sign of Warming, 1,600 Years of Ice in Andes Melted in 25 Years” http://nytimes.com/… via timoreilly
- “Map Shows Vast Regions of Ocean Are Warmer” (over a century) http://scientificamerican.com… via MyScienceWork see
- “Could Neuroscience Exonerate Showtime Serial Killer Dexter Morgan?” http://slate.com/blogs/future_tense/…
- “When share and house prices collapse, what happens to the trillions of dollars of wealth that disappear?” http://econ.st/Y62OZe
- “the use of artificial intelligence technology to grade essay answers has not yet received widespread endorsement” http://nytimes.com/…
- (interesting) skeptical article on “brain-training” games http://newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/… following http://nytimes.com/… via StuartJRitchie
- “Worry about correctness and repeatability, not p-values” http://win-vector.com/blog/… by WinVectorLLC
- “Turning out millions of doctorates” http://universityworldnews.com/article… via curtrice
- “When do we call it a solvency crisis?” http://mpettis.com/2013/03/21/when-do-we-call-it-a-solvency-crisis/ … via adelaigue
- “Getting a (literature) Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor” http://slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/… via tanyagolashboza
- “What Are We Weighting For?” http://nber.org/papers/w18859 on potential motives for weighting in statistical estimation, via cblatts
- “Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks” http://nytimes.com/…
- 2012, total hospital and physician cost (appendectomy) via Hgibier RT ritholtz here
- “Can insurance companies help small customers in developing countries bounce back from environmental catastrophes?” http://theglobalist.com/…
- “The 10 biggest science-reporting mistakes” http://poynter.org/latest-news/… via BoraZ
- live in 16 Sq. Ft in Tokyo http://.treehugger.com/interior-design/… vs. a palace of 78 Sq. Ft in Manhattan http://treehugger.com/green-architecture/… (but he works there too)
- “Some ideas on communicating risks to the general public” http://decisionsciencenews.com/…
- “How much gold is there in the world?” http://bbc.co.uk/news/… (or, in French http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/2232 for a similar story with 117,973 tonnes)
- PlayDoh 3D Printer http://thinkgeek.com/product/… here
Et comme souvent, plusieurs articles et billet en français, le premier qui a été mis en ligne alors que je tentais de tenir 4 jours sans ordinateur (et sans internet)
- “Mon cerveau d’avant Internet me manque de plus en plus” http://rue89.com/… par monachollet
mais il y avait beaucoup d’autres choses intéressantes cette semaine !
- “En question : la grammaire typographique” http://listetypo.free.fr/meron/new/Gramtypo.pdf … découvert via http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_d%27ironie … et RLesur
- “Les médias sociaux à l’heure des identités numériques : quels enjeux pour la recherche scientifique ?” http://act.hypotheses.org/3217
- “8% des gens qui ont acheté le prix Goncourt… l’ont lu” http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/actualites/… via BibliObs et ElleAimeLire
- [fable] “Les journaux malades de la sieste” http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/…
- “Accès au savoir scientifique: un enjeu central pour la santé de notre démocratie” http://sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/… via MyScienceWork
- “Scientificité des mathématiques” http://david.monniaux.free.fr/ … par dmonniaux
- “Comment réaliser une carte (de France) interactive avec R” par 3wen sur http://editerna.free.fr/blog/Carte-R-interactive le résultat est sur http://editerna.free.fr/blog/cartes/carte_france génial !
- “Une découverte mathématique historique” par nb58 http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/ … et les poissons d’avril, http://obamaths.blogspot.ca/… via J_P_Boucher
Did I miss something ?