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How do we measure our planet's global mean temperature, and compare it to a record dating back hundreds of thousands of years, a comparison central to discussions about climate change? Jordan R. Raney's description of the ingenious but impaired proxy meas

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"Accepting the metaphor of closeness means accepting that this participation is a two way street and that art and criticism collapse into one another and interpenetrate all over the place."

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The data cloud rebuttal: "Correlations are a way of catching a scientist's attention, but the models and mechanisms that explain them are how we make the predictions that not only advance science, but generate practical applications."

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Mainstream media coverage of games seems to be one of two sorts. Either they are dazzling accounts of endless unique features, or bitter discounts of their claims as culture, which reflects the views carved out by generations on either side of the compute

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Fascinating description by computer scientist Hany Farid who works with various law-enforcement agencies to uncover doctored images. Modern software has made photograph manipulation easier to carry out, but also easier to detect.

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Some brains do deteriorate with age. But for most aging adults, much of what occurs is a gradually widening focus of attention and sifting through a clutter of information that makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact like a name or a number.

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Steven Pinker on the waffliness of 'dignity' as a basis for bioethics discussions, and how US conservatives and religious leaders are invoking it to dismiss potentially life-saving medical advances.

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"The sad truth is that "non-fiction" has been unreliable from the beginning, no matter how finely grained a section of human knowledge we wish to consider." The sadder truth is that journalist fact-checking and academic peer review are still the best alte

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Susan Gelman on incorporating superstition and other explanations into our world view: "God puts you in the path of an HIV-positive lover, but biology causes you to contract the virus from his semen."

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Dutch writer Leon de Winter: "Our eyes behold an abomination. Our eyes have learned to see the world
from the perspective of a slowly acquired sense for humanity. And
although more and more voices tell us that we -- the former
colonialists and imperial

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These myths were based on ideas the authors had heard endorsed on several occasions, and which many physicians thought were true. "But after we carefully lay out medical evidence, they are very willing to accept that these beliefs are actually false."

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Photographers can make photos as well as take them, and every landscape is now the most beautiful scenery in the whole history of the universe. "The next great photographers—if there are to be any—will have to find a
way to reclaim photography's spec

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Heat always moves from a hotter to colder objects. Bring out your basic science and critical thinking skills the next time Halloween apparitions seem a little too real.

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