Are you going to Snowbird? Photo by Al_HikesAZ.

• This week at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! We’re looking ahead to the Evolution meetings.
• And, at ProfHacker: I review a book about teaching science.
• Maybe! Does your brain know whether you’re reading a piece of paper or a screen?
• Not that we couldn’t do a lot better. U.S. policies for reducing carbon pollution are a scattershot mess, but they seem to be working.
• No, really. Why we should treat science and math literatcy more like basketball.
• With a lot of money on the line. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case that could decide whether it’s legal to patent a human gene.
• So to speak. Even when you have all your publication-ducks in a row, how do you decide which ducks go first?
• Yum! Scicurious review’s Mary Roach’s new book Gulp.
• In a lineage this young, are we surprised? Human origins are turning out to be more of a mosaic than a clean-cut family tree.
• No kidding. For more students to go into science careers, maybe there need to be more science careers?
• Well, Earth-scale-ish. Kepler space telescope finds evidence of not one but two Earth-scale planets orbiting in another star’s “habitable zone.”
• More on E.O. Wilson vs. math. Maybe what he really doesn’t understand is how collaboration works.
• Aww. Zoobooks! The journey to field studies of lions in Kenya starts with a subscription to Zoobooks.

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