Field trips for the long weekend

We'll be taking Friday off to ring out the old and ring in the new, but here are some destinations on the Web worth exploring during the long New Year's weekend:

• N.Y. Times: Why do we need predictions?
• New Yorker: Is the scientific method flawed?
• Discovery Magazine: 100 top science stories of 2010
• Biblical Archaeological Review: In search of Herod's tomb