Physics vs Finance, IE vs Homicide, and More Data Links of the Week

A nice graph this week:

• coincidence ? (I guess not) via ilovecharts

and as usual, a lot of interesting posts and articles, here and there...

• “Do women academics really publish less than men?” http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/… (“women are more inclined to collaboration and co-authorship“)
• “Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older” http://economist.com/… 
• “Why funding higher education is still a very good bet for the UK treasury” http://guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network… (and I guess for all countries, actually)
• [free ebook] “Open Government” https://github.com/…
• “The more money that parents provide for higher education the lower the grades their children earn” http://andrewgelman.com/…via StatsInTheWild
• “Don’t pay for all of your kids’ college education” http://marginalrevolution.com/… on MargRev‘s blog see also the research paper http://asr.sagepub.com/…
• “What Is Driving Growth in Government Spending?” http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/…
• “Do you want the bad news or the good news first?” http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/… via http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ …
• “The microfoundations ofbanking” http://economist.com/… via MarkThoma
• “It is irrational to be irrational” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/… on “the paradox of popular psychology”
• “racial profiling no more effective than random screen” http://arstechnica.com/science…
•  http://careercast.com/jobs-rated/ …“University professor tops the Jobs Rated report of least stressful careers”
• “Why financial markets are inefficient” by Roger E. A. Farmer http://voxeu.org/article/why …
• “The Climate Change Endgame” http://nytimes.com/… by Thomas E. Lovejoy
• “A brief history of macro(economics)” http://economist.com/blogs/… ”how we got here” by EconEconomics
• [free ebook] on Rare Events and the Poisson Clumping Heuristic, on Aldous’s website http://stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/…
• “Shaking Up Science” http://sciencemag.org/ …
• “How watching internet porn can affect your memory” http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…  (interesting application of hierarchical regression models) and please, don’t tell me I have already posted a link to this article…
• “How much value does the finance industry create?”http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.ca/inance-industry.html … by Noahpinion on johnhcochrane ’s post http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.ca/……
• “More Ideological Excuse Making for Bad Banks”http://ritholtz.com/blog/ … by ritholtz
• “Saving Science Blogs” http://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/… via openscience see also http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/… by BoraZ
• “Top 30 Computer Science Blogs of 2013″ http://bestcomputersciencedegrees.com/… via Jewels_2626
• “Why some physicists shouldn’t do finance” http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.com/… via MarkThoma and deagiles