There’s probably at least one class-M planet somewhere in this picture. Photo by redeye^.

• This week at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Stalking the wild holobiont.
• And at The Molecular Ecologist: How to “triangulate” your genome scan.
• The fault is not in the stars, but in our telescopes. Will we ever find Earth-like planets orbiting other stars?
• Wow. With winter precipitation at a record low, California is facing the third year of a catastrophic drought.
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a scientist in possession of a hypothesis must be in want of Jane Austen. Jonathan Eisen takes issue with some literary advice for scientists.
• A review of The Signal and the Noise. Why scientists need prior knowledge.
• Yeah … probably not. Is this comparative karyotype the final piece of evidence that will shut down creationism?
• In memoriam, Philip Seymour Hoffman. The science of addiction, in very personal perspective.
• Wow. How a photographer caught a bee mid-sting.
• The flaw in their thinking is the implicit assumption that a cat is a rigid body, an assumption that is obviously false to any cat-owner! The physics that lets cats land on their feet.

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