Links You Might Have Missed (and a free ebook on R)

Some posts and articles found recently on the internet:

• "It’s not what you know, but who: The role of connections in academia" http://www.voxeu.org/... via @adelaigue
• "What would Batman eat?: priming children to make healthier fast food choices" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/j.2047-6310.2011.00003.x/pdf … via http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/n.html …
• "Why are some things easier to forecast than others?" on @robjhyndman's blog http://robjhyndman.com/hardforecasts/ …
• " Fukushima Update: How Safe Can a Nuclear Meltdown Get?" by Will Boisvert (published in August) http:// slackwire.blogspot.ca/fukushima-update-how-safe-can-nuclear.html …
• "Police are investigating whether a man found dead on a street was a stowaway who fell from a plane" http://www.bbc.co.uk/magazine-19562101 … what are the odds?
• "More studies on the economic effects of climate change" http://andrewgelman.com/more-studies-on-the-economic-effects-of-climate-change/ … on @StatModeling's blog
• "What Does it Mean to Be Poor?" http://www.thedailybeast.com/2012/09/17/what-does-it-mean-to-be-poor.html …"consumption of the poor is much higher than their incomes. Is poverty falling, or not?"
• "Adult Obesity Rates (in the U.S.) Could Exceed 60% in 13 States by 2030, According to New Study"http:// healthyamericans.org/releases/?releaseid=273 … via @sciencedaily
• "Friends You Can Count On" by @stevenstrogatz http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/friatics-culture-of-historical.html …ends-you-can-count-on/ 
• "Mathematics: a culture of historical inaccuracy?"http:// travels.aperiodical.com/mathem…
• “Bayesian flooding” http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/09/07/fooling-facebook-telling-lies-to-protect-your-privacy/ … "Fooling Facebook: Telling Lies To Protect Your Privacy"
• "Automatic cleaning of messy text data"http:// houseofstones.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/automatic-cleaning-of-messy-text-data/ …
• "Recruitment in academia: is there no room for compassion?"http://www. guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/17/recruitment-in-academia-dealing-with-rejection …
• on "Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent" http://edge.org/conversation/on-iterated-prisoner-dilemma … or http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/09/iterated-prisoners-dilemma-blogging-dyson-and-press-really-are-very-clever-indeed.html …
• “2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures”http:// andrewgelman.com/2012/09/persistently-reduced-labor-productivity-may-be-one-of-the-largest-economic-impacts-of-anthropogenic-climate-change/ …
• "Why Can't We Sell Charity Like We Sell Perfume?"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444017504577647502309260064.html …
• "Sex Doesn't Sell — Nor Impress" (a study based on more than 900 films released between 2001 and 2005 ) http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/aca-3-4-200.pdf …
• [free ebook-R code] "The Statistical Sleuth In R" based on chapters 1-13 http://www.math.smith.edu/~nhorton/sleuth/ …
• dear millionaire, how committed are you to living in your country? via @ecointerview and http://www2.skandia.co.uk/Investor%20news/212-5043%20Millionaire_report-plus_March%202012.pdf …

• dear millionaire, by how much has your wealth has your wealth changed since 2008? via @ecointerview

• "Why I am a Macroeconomist" by Miles Kimball http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/1546639371/why-i-am-a-macroeconomist-increasing-returns-and …
• "Differences in risk aversion between young and older adults"http://www. dovepress.com/differences-in-risk-aversion-between-young-and-older-adults-peer-reviewed-article-NAN …
• "wildfires' positive and negative economic impacts" http://uonews.uoregon.edu/news-release/2012/9/uo-study-shows-wildfires-positive-and-negative-economic-impacts …
• "Bubbles: Who to blame?" by Garett Joneshttp:// econlog.econlib.org/2012/09/bubbles_who_to.html …
• "False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research" http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/sep/13/scientific-research-fraud-bad-practice …
• "Bayesian Blogging" http://freethoughtblogs.com/archives/2482/ … see http://  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem … on Bayes' theorem
• "10 largest bankruptcies in the history of the USA" http://nyse-trade.com/nyse-trade-ru10-krupnejshix-bankrotstv-v-istorii-ssha/ … via @historysquared
• "Television viewing time and reduced life expectancy: a life table analysis" http://bjsm.bmj.com/early/2011/08/01/bjsm.2011.085662.short?rss=1 …
• "How and When To Blog For Academics" by Alex Burnshttp://www.alexburns.net/26th-june-2012-how-and-when-to-blog-for-academics/ … via @benoitmelancon see also http://www.alexburns.net/16th-february-2012-academic-blogging/ …
• "Estimating the historical and future probabilities of large terrorist events" http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0089
• "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Change: Confirmation Bias in Financial Markets" by S. Pouget and S. Villeneuve http://www.tse-fr.eu/images/doc/wp/fit/wp_tse_306.pdf …
• "Count on me" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/489177a.html … "Sometimes, the use of metrics to assess the value of scientists is unavoidable"