‘How Math Got Its Nobel’ on NYT illuminates “the often neglected intersection of mathematics and politics” nyti.ms/1musivj

Congrats to Maryam Mirzakhani: first woman, and first Iranian, to win the Fields Medal goo.gl/Q9fcpM HT @dcastelvecchi

“#darkmatter searches going bananas” [sic]: a skeptical view on the claimed 3.5 keV excess in galaxy clusters arxiv.org/abs/1408.1699