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Science caught in the Web 2010-01-23

Posted Saturday, 23 January 2010

climate change
- The real holes in climate science. Quirin Schiermeier. Nature. Vol. 436 (20 January 2010): 284–287. doi:10.1038/463284a.
- 2009: Second Warmest Year on Record; End of Warmest Decade, Research News, NASA GISS (21 January 2010)
Andreas Bick, Silent Listening
- Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets (9 May 2008)
- Ice Recordings Updated (17 January 2010)
newton’s apple
- Memoir of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life, William Stukeley, 1752
  - Turning the Pages, The Royal Society
  - Newton Papers Project, University of Sussex
- John Conduitt’s Account of Newton’s Life at Cambridge, c. 1727-8, Newton Papers Project, University of Sussex
- The Pitt Estate, British History Online. A lengthy article about the neighborhood where Newton spent the last two years of his life. Excerpted from Survey of London: volume 37, edited by F.H.W. Sheppard (1973).
- Newton Court, Kensington, London on Google Maps. Newton lived on this block from 1725 to his death in 1727 and told the story of the apple to his biographer William Stukeley near a grove of apple trees in this general area.