Time to share links to interesting posts I found here and there this week. We should start with

• “What Ockham really said” http://boingboing.net/…via cynorrhodon

among many other posts and articles,

• “complex calculations faced by those who select people for powerful, lifetime positions” http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/… via CutTheKnotMath
• “Scientists who engage with society perform better academically”http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4672  (a 2008 paper, via inundata)
• “Too Big to Fail has become Too Big for Trial” via http://thebrowser.com/…
• “on the Value of Academic Blogging” http://ft.com/intl/… via http://themonkeycage.org/blog/
• “When it comes to fear of flying, it’s the idea that risk should be treated purely as a number which is irrational” http://guardian.co.uk/science/…
• “is economics more insular than I thought?” http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/is-…
• deep inside #bigdata ”a massive data set of 10,000 porn stars” http://jonmillward.com/blog/ … via MargRev e.g stats by names

• “who pays teachers best for their time” via emmadefaud and http://blog.francetvinfo.fr/l-instit-humeurs/…
• “The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices” http://papers.ssrn.com/…
• “Did an Excel error bring down the London Whale?” http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/… via Rbloggers
• [for geeks only] ”A mathematical model of sentimental dynamics accounting for marital dissolution” http://plosone.org/… with a bonus Figure

• “The Importance of Excel” http://baselinescenario.com/ … ”perils of bad software in the business world and the financial industry in particular“
•  ”Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong” http://theatlantic.com/magazine…
• “We’re more fooled by noise than ever before, and it’s because of a nasty phenomenon called ‘big data’.” http://wired.com/…
• “Data Visualization Gallery” http://census.gov/dataviz/  ”A weekly exploration of Census data.”

• “The technical competence of economic policymakers” http://voxeu.org/article/technical-… viawent1955
• “Retraction is exploding, replicability of research diminishing, and our measure of journal quality is farcical” http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/…
• “Jewish Problems” http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556
• “Global R&D: An Overview” http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.ca/ … based on http://.bruegel.org/publications/… see e.g. R&D expenditures as % of GDP

• “Will Subway Fares Rise? Check at Your Pizza”http://nytimes.com/… in the 80′s via http://futilitycloset.com/…
• “Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers?” http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9588755  or http://blog.sethroberts.net/… [for the pdf] nice dataset,want to see it
• “Even (Mixed) Risk Lovers are Prudent” http://lem.cnrs.fr/… see also http://papers.ssrn.com/ …
• “Life Expectancy as a Constructed Belief: Evidence of a Live-To or Die-By Framing Effect” http://papers.ssrn.com/ … via HarvardBiz
• “How much does hip surgery cost? Somewhere between $10,000 and $125,000″ http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog …
• “seven decades of raising prices” (in NYC) http://go.bloomberg.com/market-now/…