"Researchers from King's College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician's theory of how biological patterns such as tiger stripes or leopard spots are formed."

"Muller says that “the biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously by other teams in the US and the UK.” We find this very statement surprising. As we showed two years ago, any of various simple statistical analyses of the freely available data at the time showed that it was very very unlikely that the results would change."

"The warming trend is something that climate physicists saw coming many decades before it was observed."

"A new analysis of the temperature record leaves little room for the doubters. The world is warming."

"Why do IEEE and ACM act against the interests of scholars?"

NYT review of a book on the history of Bayesianism.

Interesting discussion from Christopher Norris about why scientists should listen to philosophers of science.

From his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art Super Soaker squirt gun, Johnson believes he now holds the key to affordable solar power.