Science Is Badass!

A semi-regular blog by Tim Barribeau, of all the science news he can't find a buyer for.

Independent Panel Clears “Climategate” Researchers of Wrongdoing

A dedicated panel has analyzed the emails and data from last year’s “Climategate” scandal that wasn’t, and found no evidence of wrongdoing. Said the report:

“We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we [...]

Visualising Maths In Nature

This is an absolutely gorgeous visualisation of the way mathematics occurs in nature. It looks at the Fibonacci sequence, Golden and Angle Ratios, the Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi Tessellations. Absolutely stunningly [...]

The Maths of Darwin's Finches

Here’s an example about how maths is awesome, hard, but awesome!

Darwin’s finches have been a touchstone of evolutionary biology since, well, Darwin. These finches live on the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador and exhibit amazing variation in beak structure. The species of finches on the Galapagos have evolved to utilize a myriad of niches, [...]