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/…) see
versus “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 < .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&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?