Kids — do try this at home! 

A fascinating piece about the minds of octopus, and whether we may yet understand the intelligence of other species. Steven Roberts’ research is cited. Side note: The story is an interesting comparison article to this one discussing a new lawsuit against Sea World that states that killer whales’ 13th Amendment Rights (to not be held as slaves) are being violated. 

Gathering data to understand climate can be a messy job.  Julian Sach’s Lab at the School of Oceanography is cited in this blog post about the messiness of field work and of climate science itself. 

The Dungeness Valley is famous for its many days of sun, yet Port Angeles has been found to be inside the rain shadow of the Olympics as well.  Atmospheric Sciences’ Cliff Mass is quoted here. 

Every two weeks, Reginald Roberts posts a new set of earthquake forecasts on his website, NextEarthquake.com. Roberts says his earthquake forecasts, which included a prediction of the earthquake that shook Hawaii on Thursday (Oct. 20), are accurate over 90 percent of the time. If Roberts is right, then all the world’s seismologists and earthquake geologists are wrong when they say earthquakes are too chaotic to be predicted.