Surviving parsimonists: just tree-naive or tree-blindfolded?

A generation ago, an epic battle took place, largely unnoticed outside mathematical and biological sciences: the Phylogenetic Wars. By the mid-1990s, the war was over and probabilistic methods for tree-inference replaced traditional parsimony. But there is a small, quite dusty realm that still pretends nothing happened: palaeontology. A long read about undervalued data and stubborn old white men.

Lernen mit Lindner – die Geometrie der Mitte

Nach dem PR-Fiasko in Thüringen, macht die FDP wieder ganz auf Mitte. Zeit für eine paar Bildchen.