He presents us with a poisonous made-up fact.

Crusading librarian Jeffrey Beall maintains a list of predatory or fake scholarly journals. Bizarrely, he sometimes gets email from a journal asking that they be added to his list.

The best way to calculate Fibonacci numbers on a real computer depends on what you want to know about them.

Two new stunning results have been proven.

A new release of the Python JIT compiler, now supporting stackless.

After griping from iPhone users since the rollout of Google Now about it not seeing most calendar appointments nor Gmail, a Google representative has finally spoken: this behavior is “expected”.

Although a general solution to the gravitational N-body problem is not known, there exist a handful of periodic solutions with equal masses. Here is a lovely visualization of some of these.

The three smartphones that are currently in orbit are now taking pictures of the Earth.

One of the principal functions of the software is to integrate with your calendar appointments, to do cool and useful things, such as warning you to leave now if you want to get to the show on time. But it doesn’t work on the iPhone.

“Morocco’s High Council of Ulemas (the highest government religious institution headed by the King) has issued a fatwa decreeing the death penalty for Moroccans who leave Islam [...] clearly a response to the establishment of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco – the first public atheist organisation in a country with Islam as the state religion.”

Public criticism of the “croudsourced” encyclopedia leads to childish retaliation by its editors.

... will be a contact lens.

“Herschel has exceeded all expectations, providing us with an incredible treasure trove of data that that will keep astronomers busy for many years to come.” Visit the link for beautiful images provided by Herschel.

A giant hurricane within the North pole “hexagon”; see the movie.

Perspective about timescales; nicely done.

He was grabbed while on a visit from the University of Texas in Austin.

In amazing work using observations by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, Einstein’s theory of gravity was confirmed, while more recent, competing theories, devised to attempt reconciliation with quantum mechanics, failed.

An amusing and revealing reminiscence from someone who took a class with the computer scientist as an undergraduate.

England’s notorious libel laws have finally been partially reformed, raising the bar for defamation actions and adding some protection for those who write about issues of public interest.

An image was captured when the comet was about as far away from the Sun as Jupiter.