Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates - The Verge
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A science writer who doesn’t understand the difference between binary and bimodal
"We don’t just have a graded distribution, we have combinatorial variation."
In the South Pacific, a Humpback Whale Karaoke Lounge - The New York Times
"Acoustic analysis of the songs told the researchers that the singing whales were from a number of different breeding grounds... They even recorded a humpback singing two different songs, perhaps in the process of learning one from another migrating whale. [...] [T]he authors have 'clearly demonstrated a location where the cultural transmission of song may occur'..."