\nWhy students don’t learn<\/a>
\nModeling the spread of rumours<\/a>\u00a0(in the digital age)
\nVisualizing the connections between the artists who developed abstract art<\/a>
\nCoursera starts a free course on Social Network Analysis (with R<\/a>)
\nCalls for more science-based policy making coming from the UK<\/a>
\nWhat happens when you take you econometric results too seriously\u00a0<\/a>
\nWhat’s like to spend 40 years in the Siberian taiga<\/a> (if you understand Russian, watch the amazing videos<\/a> about the story)
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<\/a>\nCoral<\/a> by Fleix Salazar [via Colossal]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a not-so-short hiatus during which I visited friends and family in Bulgaria, went through a couple of seasonal colds, and got a new workstation up and running (MacBook Pro with W7), I am finally back to the blog. As a warm-up, a bunch of interesting links you might have missed during January: The art of procrastination\u00a0(surprisingly effective) Why students don’t learn Modeling the spread of rumours\u00a0(in the digital age) Visualizing the connections between the artists who developed abstract art Coursera starts a free course on Social Network Analysis (with R) Calls for more science-based policy making coming from the UK What happens when you take you econometric results too seriously\u00a0 What’s like to spend 40 years in the Siberian taiga (if you understand Russian, watch the amazing videos about the story) Coral by Fleix Salazar [via Colossal]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-aG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":173,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=173","url_meta":{"origin":662,"position":0},"title":"Hyperlinks","date":"November 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The art of science 2011 Individuals who feel entitled are more inclined to perceive dull tasks as a waste of their time I wonder whether you can infer from the fact the someone is often bored that (s)he has an inflated sense of entitlement Do cows align with the Earth's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Hyperlinks"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":500,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=500","url_meta":{"origin":662,"position":1},"title":"Hyperlinks","date":"September 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a while since the last post but I am slowly getting back on track after the triple shock from the arrival of a new family member, a new house and a new office (which all happened within a week during the summer). 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