Weekend Reads

New species of extinct human found in cave may rewrite history

Why the Earth Is Heating So Fast: On the Dangerous Difference Between Science and Political Science

Scientists try to replicate climate denier findings and fail

One of the most common problems the researchers encountered was something called “cherry-picking.” Not to be confused with actual cherry-picking (which is now endangered thanks to climate change), data cherry-picking is a big science no-no in which researchers falsify results by including only the data that support those results and not the data that don’t.

The key to a meaningful, powerful life is week-by-week

Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long. But this chart helps to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Those are your weeks and they’re all you’ve got.

Hey Denver: Give Chick-fil-A a Break

Is 2015 The Year Baseball’s Projections Failed?

Although KC won 89 games and went to the World Series in 2014, a consensus average of betting over/unders and other statistical systems would have pegged the Royals for 76 wins this year, a number that will likely end up at least 15 games low. Any projection system tied to the Royals’ comparatively weak preseason forecast would have been similarly bearish on their future record.

Somebody Get Katie Ledecky A Time Machine

As she keeps improving her times and lowering her records, I like to think of each new milestone as her advancing through time, knocking down legend after legend as they pop up. It isn’t just a new record — it’s another period of history in which no one could beat her. How far can she get?

A public marketplace for hackers—what could possibly go wrong?

It’s not who he is, it’s who he hates: The secret to Donald Trump’s toxic appeal

Astronomers Find a Near-Earth-Size Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Very Sunlike Star

Deep-Sea Cameras Reveal “Sharkcano”

“These large animals are living in what you have to assume is much hotter and much more acidic water, and they’re just hanging out,” Phillips says.

Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past