Yet the theory was nonsense: experiments have proved that wood and gasoline-fuelled fires burn at essentially the same temperature.

NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

Some sources of potential error have been known for a long time (for example, because of slight changes in their orbits, satellites do not always take temperature measurements at precisely the same time of day).

ECONOMIST: A heated controversy | The

And, most immediate to personal comfort, should the average indoor temperature of British houses continue to rise, stay roughly the same at 17.5C (63.5F), or fall?

BBC: How warm is your home?

One of the strange things we learned during our hands-on was that SLI is complicated by NVIDIA's GPU Boost technology, which causes individual cards in the same chassis to run at different clock speeds depending on their load and temperature.

ENGADGET: NVIDIA's GTX 680 tested in SLI and multi-display modes, loses some of its lead