• La peur du déclassement, ouvrage d'Eric Maurin (note de lecture chez les Econoclastes)
  • Avenir du nucléaire, avenir de l'humanité (Jean-Paul Baquiast, 07/04/2011)
  • TINA énergétique (Tom Roud, 11/04/2011) : There Is No Alternative au nucléaire. Le billet ET les commentaires sont intéressants
  • Poisson d’Avril de Turing (Tom Roud, 03/04/2011), où il est montré que des étudiants en AI à qui on fait passer un "faux" test de Turing ne sont pas capables de se rendre compte qu'il n'y a pas de machine derrière leurs interlocuteurs
  • The case for having more kids (Bryan Caplan, 19/06/2010) via freakonomics




Morceaux choisis de ce dernier article :

"It's also true that modern parents are less happy than their childless counterparts.
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A closer look (...) reveals that child No. 1 does almost all the damage. Otherwise identical people with one child instead of none are 5.6 percentage points less likely to be very happy. Beyond that, additional children are almost a happiness free lunch. Each child after the first reduces your probability of being very happy by a mere .6 percentage points.
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Many find behavioral genetics depressing, but it's great news for parents and potential parents. If you think that your kids' future rests in your hands, you'll probably make many painful "investments"—and feel guilty that you didn't do more. Once you realize that your kids' future largely rests in their own hands, you can give yourself a guilt-free break. "