Weather forecasting forecasting Last summer I was looking at the BBC’s weather forecast for the coming two weeks, and it started to bug me that there were no error bars on these numbers. So I decided to add them for myself! What I wanted to see was how the predictions got more and more reliable as the day approached. To see this for day X, I would need to start thirteen days earlier, on day X – 13. Read more

The best and the worst of a year that gave me an unusual amount of reading time. Green Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway The Truthful Art – Alberto Cairo World War Z – Max Brooks Leviathan Wakes – James A Corey Humble Pi – Matt Parker Making Comics – Scott McCloud Liberty in the Age of Terror – A C Grayling Lords of the Desert – James Barr Massive Change – Bruce Mau Sick Puppy – Carl Hiaasen Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez The Windup Girl – Paul Bacigalupi Failure is Not an Option – Gene Kranz Cigarette Girl – Masahiko Matsumoto Telling Tales – Ann Cleeves Blame! Read more