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• How Scientists Classify Life — From Linnaeus to DNA Trees
  Every organism on Earth has an address in a filing system invented by an 18th-century Swede and now being rebuilt base pair by base pair. Taxonomy is where biology meets genealogy: naming, ranking, arguing — and occasionally discovering that fungi are closer to animals than to plants.
• Cloud Types and What They Mean for the Weather
  Cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbostratus — the sky is a readable forecast if you know what each cloud is telling you. Here is the simple classification and how to use clouds to guess the next few hours.