“The Formula That Killed Wall Street”

Wired looks at the maths behind the credit crunch.

“Now you have an opportunity within this crisis, so let the experiment begin.”

Kert Davies, research director of Greenpeace, in the Guardian’s special report ‘can economic rescue plans also save planet?’

Video: Oktapodi

They may not have won the Oscar they were up for, but the team behind this octopus romance animation have produced perhaps the best thing on the internet [hat tip: Newsweek].

“She was a major force in the field of finding near-Earth asteroids, discovering or co-discovering almost 900 asteroids in her lifetime, as well as several comets.”

Phil Plait comments on ‘asteroid hunter’ Eleanor Helin, who died recently (Bad Astronomy).