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According to PSU's Mann, that statistical "trick" that Jones refers to in one e-mail - which has been trumpeted by skeptics - simply referred to the replacing of proxy temperature data from tree rings in recent years with more accurate data from air temperatures. It's an analytical technique that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Perhaps most damningly, in an e-mail from 1999, Jones refers to one of Mann's studies from the prominent journal Nature in a discussion of his own data: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

In a society where the cost of living is high, the notion that kids are an unwelcome burden - taboo in many cultures - has become an accepted idea. Take the title of a recent panel discussion put on by Taiwan's Human Social Sciences Foundation: 'Having Children! Does It Hurt That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Has Taiwan's Birthrate Dropped So Low? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Flora's surrender to lazy, loveless sexual pleasure and Philip's intensely strange abdication of bodily life together make, or would have made, The Original of Laura a melancholy meditation on our fleshly predicament. And what else? The novel's title refers to a novel-within-a-novel called My...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

“Take the Zen Train” represents a new development in Ho’s philosophy that occurred after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. His entire approach to music has become part of a much more organic, earth-conscious process, and he is now...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazzing Up a Revolution | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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