Interesting articles

Reading in the IEEE Spectrum, I ran across two interesting articles. First, an interesting perspective from a University of Alabama professor on the climate, contrasting strongly with claims that climate data is unquestionable. (Note that the second article gives a series of opinions from the pro-change perspective, rather than factual claims, though it sounds factual.) Second, an interesting article on the China's Great Firewall gives a graphics below of what's censored as the image below:

In addition, a friend of mine with MS pointed me to some very exciting news: narrowed veins  (note the PDF is freely available) which do not carry enough blood away from the brain may be the root cause! There's a TV news story and web info on it as well.