Good evening…. here are your leftover goodies for tonight. See you tomorrow, bright and weird. More on Paul Offit’s new campaign against alternative med treatments. Opinion: Alternative healing or quackery? – CNN.com. How Darwin helped invent the idea of aliens. Ben Radford writes about the psychic lawsuit decision. Psychic Ordered to Pay $7 Million for…

Lithium ion batteries have found increasing usage in recent times, finding use in everything from portable electronics to heavy transportation. While they have their own set of problems, they’re not unsolvable. And when they are solved, they’ll also have to find other reasons to persist in a market whose demands are soaring. The simplest upgrade that […]

I’m trying to finish off a paper that Tobias Fritz and I have been working on, which gives a category-theoretic (and Bayesian!) characterization of relative entropy. It’s a kind of sequel to our paper with Tom Leinster, in which we characterized entropy. That earlier paper was developed in conversations on the n-Category Café. It was […]

Antarctic melting from underneath China launches first market to cap emissions China takes cautious step towards carbon emissions trading Global warming appears to have slowed lately Obama considers sweeping climate plan Obama fails to use National Environmental Policy Act UN global warming talks blocked by Russia U.S. airports face increasing threat from rising seas Vulnerable states decry slow progress at Bonn climate talks What to do about climate change Antarctic melting from […]

mucholderthen: Limacina helicina 3  and  Limacina helicina 1by ~half-scientific  [Alexander Semenov (Russia)] The pteropod mollusc, Limacina helicina A species of small swimming predatory sea snail in the family which belong to the group commonly known as sea butterflies (Thecosomata), Limacina helicina is a keystone species of mesozooplankton in Arctic pelagic ecosystems.[Wikipedia]