- Mice (aka Major Tom) as harbingers of human expansion.
- Mars had LAKES!
- On metaphysics and science–why science can’t tell us whether science can tell us everything.
- Announcing Tropy, a Mellon-funded digital tool designed to help researchers organize, share, edit, and search the images they take in the archives.
- New climate change finding: rising sea temperatures (along with climatological events) have been bleaching our coral reefs.
- The money you spent on your calc textbook went to build an incredible house.
- Why did Europe’s weather model get Hurricane Joaquin right, while America’s model got it so wrong?
- A legend passes.
- Scientists test ape memory using some hilarious techniques.
- Did America’s tea trade with China create our first millionaires?
- Just in case you don’t want to win a Nobel Prize.
- “An object lesson in what happens when STEM majors don’t take enough courses in the humanities.”
- “Pharm-bitrage“: buy cheap drug brands without generic competitors, jack up prices, and profit while generics await approval.
- The folly of big science awards.
- And finally, did you catch our new posts on what Reddit can tell us about the future of science and on blood, bones, and a new T. rex for the Smithsonian’s Fossil Hall?
Lots of Links for Friday, October 9, 2015
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