George Musser at Scientific American makes the point that uncertainty about the accuracy of climate modeling means things could be worse as easily as better than expected. Specifically, he presents summaries of studies that suggest that carbon dioxide-induced global warming could happen much more quickly than models suggest.

I really want microcredit (lending very small amounts of money to poor people in developing nations) to be an effective antipoverty measure. But Thomas Dichter’s thoughtful critique of the practice definitely makes the case for much lower expectations.

Samsung has filed a patent application for a system that links a smart stylus with a projected display to enable big-screen applications on mobile phones.

There has been some success recently with the growing of replacement organs. But growing is slow, especially when you consider organ replacement is best done sooner rather than later. Enter Gabor Forgacs, a biophysicist at the University of Missouri – he has developed a new bioprinting technique that could be used to create complex tissue structures such as veins far more efficiently than previous methods allowed.

There is now sufficient mobile apparatus at the New Mexico Spaceport to permit UA Aerospace Inc. to go through with their first planned suborbital launches in July. Moving to permanent structures will require the granting of a licence from the Federal Aviation Administration, but the Spaceport crews have plenty of other work to be getting on with in the meantime.