Arthur Charpentier

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

"As the climate warms, new data shows huge swaths of land across the globe are quickly drying, threatening humanity’s supply of fresh water." www.propublica.org/article/wate... "The Drying Planet" see also www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"Extreme weather drives food price surges across the globe" www.ft.com/content/66b0...

How Did England Fall Out of Love with Universities? The Four Horsemen of Fees, Culture, Expansion and Quality

"With repeated news stories of England’s universities facing financial crisis and daily news stories criticising them for everything from fraud to left-wing indoctrination - how did we fall so out of love with our universities?" www.edrith.co.uk/p/how-did-en...

Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.

"Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket" fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...

"Beyond Euclid: An Illustrated Guide to Modern Machine Learning with Geometric, Topological, and Algebraic Structures" arxiv.org/pdf/2407.09468

La clause orteil, par #Atsemtex

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Flash Floods and Climate Policy As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters.

"As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to deal with—climate-related disasters" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Enshittification of American Power First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

"The Enshittification of American Power" www.wired.com/story/enshit... "First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech."

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

"Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. “The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’”" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

Le dernier numéro de la Revue Risques www.revue-risques.fr (no 142) fait sa couverture (avec un beau dossier) sur un thème qui me passionne, "segmenter sans discriminer", et fort gentiment, j'ai été sollicité pour un article...

« Les événements climatiques extrêmes ne sont plus des risques marginaux, et le secteur bancaire tarde à en prendre la mesure » TRIBUNE. Avec la multiplication des inondations, des incendies et des tempêtes, la crise climatique pourrait devenir la prochaine bombe à retardement du système financier avertit, dans une tribune au ...

« Les événements climatiques extrêmes ne sont plus des risques marginaux, et le secteur bancaire tarde à en prendre la mesure » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... (voir aussi freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/82311 pour la version n-1)

Cabin Porn® Books Cabin Porn Books: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere.

books.cabinporn.com/ 😍 via www.dwell.com/article/cabi... "A rough-hewn A-frame in a snowscape or a tiny log shack by a lake—why off-grid, simple living has long captured the American imagination, and our online attention."

"Rising surface salinity and declining sea ice: A new Southern Ocean state revealed by satellites" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... via www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

"The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives." Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper" asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.

"Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states" www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/n...

Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts This year marks the first time that local NWS offices have stopped round-the-clock operations in the agency’s history

"At the NWS office in Jackson, Kentucky, however, a staffing shortage meant there was no on-duty forecaster for the overnight shift when the storms were at their peak." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"En quelques mois, par le biais de la décision d'un peuple souverain, c'est toute notre capacité à prédire « le temps qu'il fera » qui est mise à l'épreuve" www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats...

« Non, grand-mère n’était pas folle » : la quête de vérité sur les aïeules internées de force en psychiatrie Plus dérangeantes que dérangées, souvent polytraumatisées, des milliers de femmes ont été internées au sein des « asiles d’aliénés » dans les années 1940, 1950 et 1960. Aujourd’hui, certains de leurs ...

"En cherchant ce que cachait la maladie mentale de son aïeule, l’autrice retrace la manière dont la société de l’époque, de l’institution familiale aux autorités médicales, a psychiatrisé les femmes qui n’épousaient pas la figure de la mère de famille idéale." www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/arti...

Last week, we published our interactive project on climate matches. I published my detailed methodology on how we wrangled the data. Here's the link, with a shout-out to @freakonometrics.bsky.social who helped me with the statistical approach! 🧑‍🏫

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newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

What happened to June ?! #CalvinAndHobbes

tu peux me rajouter dans la boucle ?

je suis assez nul en théorie musicale, mais ça ne ressemble pas à ce que je pourrais écouter sorti dans les 10 dernières années

ah ah, il y a deux semaines, j'ai réécouté par hasard un titre de Midnight Oil, avant de me replonger dans ces vieux albums de ma jeunesse, pendant tout le week end, et j'y ai pris beaucoup de plaisir... la musique a vieilli mais ça reste tellement d'actualité...

The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery When a “purchasing group” won a ninety-five-million-dollar jackpot, the victory caused a scandal in a state where opposition to legal gambling remains widespread.

"When a “purchasing group” won a 95-million-dollar jackpot, the victory caused a scandal in a state where opposition to legal gambling remains widespread www.newyorker.com/news/letter-... Now the Lottery is probably going to be successful in screwing every player and retailer that resides in Texas"

Insuring an uninsurable world - the pricing actuary's Mission Impossible? <strong>David Walker</strong> investigates the dilemma facing actuaries in pricing property cover to reflect increasing risks, while balancing considerations of affordability, fairness and insurers' s...

"Insuring an uninsurable world - the pricing actuary's Mission Impossible?" www.insuranceerm.com/analysis/ins...

"Montréal s’est transformée en fournaise" www.ledevoir.com/societe/8944... (on avait profité des portes ouvertes gratuites au Musée des Beaux Arts, pour prendre le frais... et c'était vraiment agréable... et pas trop de monde, étonnement)

Some US researchers want to leave the country. Can Europe take them? As the Trump administration steps up attacks on US universities and scientific institutions, the European Union is campaigning hard to attract scientists from the United States. But how many can the b...

"As the Trump administration steps up attacks on US universities and scientific institutions, the European Union is campaigning hard to attract scientists from the United States. But how many can the bloc take?" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In French, I would say "faux amis" (translate.google.com?sl=auto&tl=e...)

"Channels of Communication in Small Groups" (in 1951) www.jstor.org/stable/2088276 If you have 5 person in a panel, uniform distribution of time would be 20% each. In reality, it's more 44%, 22%, 15%, 11%, 9%, i.e. what is called "discrete harmonic" (or Zipf distribution with power index of 1)