[NEWS] Four science links, from water on the frontier to climate change to Tau Ceti exoplanets

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• At Wired, Matt Simon explores the remarkably wrong-headed theory of the 19th century US that "rain follows the plough."


• These National Geographic photos of the unexplored lakes in Angola that feed the Okavango are remarkable.


• Rachel Brown examines billy burr, the Colorado hermit whose collection of decades of climate data is invaluable.


• Universe Today notes a new study confirming the existence of Tau Ceti e and f, potentially habitable rocky exoplanets just 12 light years away.