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The article reports that the U.S. Department of Energy has forecasted that the average U.S. home will face a 10 percent increase in winter heating bills for the 2007-2008 heating season. Homes with oil heat, predominantly in the Northeast, are facing an expected increase of 22 percent. The predictions are based on rising petroleum prices as well as a long-term weather forecast which expects a cold winter.

The article discusses J. Richard Gott III and his use of the Copernican Principle to predict future events. His mathematical probability of future events uses one criteria, past longevity, to predict future outcomes. The author uses the political terms of office of various world politicians to explain the principle.

The article looks at Wall Street strategist and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School Michael J. Mauboussin and his annual economics experiment associated with predictions of Academy Awards winners. The purpose of his experiment is to demonstrate the power of prediction markets, in which groups of people bet or guess on something, with the results combined into a consensus. Research has found that prediction markets are surprisingly accurate.

The article author discusses the power of big-data and prediction algorithms in making accurate predictions of which tweets will be retweeted often, with consideration on their boundaries and limitations relating to correlation, causality problem, and the paradox of predicting what is interesting.

The article focuses on the effect of Hurricane Sandy in Long Island, New York. It mentions that the Long Island Power Authority repeatedly failed to plan for the extreme weather. Moreover, former Federal Emergency Management Agency official Frank P. Petrone said that resources are late and the authority did not utilize the management of the resources effectively.

The article reports on the oil production forecast of the International Energy Agency (IEA). It says that the U.S. oil production will surpass the oil production of Saudi Arabia from 2013 to 2017. It states that it serves a reminder that North American oil and gas industry is coming back after. Moreover, the forecast has brought tension between Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Secretary General Abdallah Salem el-Badri and IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven.

A correction to the article about a study on the pH level of the ocean water in Tatoosh Island, Washington is presented.

Astronomers have long theorized that the Moon was formed when an object the size of Mars slammed into Earth, sending a huge mass of rock into orbit around it. ''According to the prevailing model prediction, approximately half of the Moon-forming material should come from the Mars-size impactor,'' said Junjun Zhang, an isotope geochemist at the University of Chicago and the study's first author. But samples of isotopic titanium from the Moon and from Earth now suggest that material from Earth is predominant on the Moon, researchers report in the journal Nature Geoscience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the forecast weather report in 1,500 cities of the United States of America. Tame for high tides; Recreational forecast; Metropolitan almanac.

Reports on celebrity wedding wagers. Odds on various celebrities' weddings and divorces; History of celebrity wedding wagers; Method of odds calculation.