A conference on 'Forgotten Knowledge', jointly organised by the Max Planck Centre in Berlin, the Descartes Centre, the Vossius Center, and Huygens ING.
Surface temperatures of the tropical Atlantic ocean rose above 36 degrees Celsius 56 million years ago, resulting in a die-off of organisms in the region.
Karin van Es and Mirko Tobias Sch盲fer edited The Datafied Society. It offers a collection of scholarly investigations into computer-aided methods and practices.
Laurien Crump is awarded the George Blazyca Prize for her monograph 'The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered: International Relations in Eastern Europe, 1955-1969'.